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K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity.\nK Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.\nPosition is based in our Paris office or remotely in France, UK, Germany.\nPlease submit your CV in English\nAbout the role:\nAs a Software Engineer, you will build the world leading Agentic AI product for biomedical researchers by combining robust engineering practices with cutting-edge AI technologies. You'll be working on a real-time system that integrates LLMs, tool-calling, and interactive UI elements, making sure our users can seamlessly engage with complex domain specific data.\nThis role requires balancing traditional engineering principles with innovative approaches when integrating LLMs and AI throughout our technology stack. If you love building and refining a dynamic product, this role is for you.\nYour seniority and experience will be crucial in guiding the multidisciplinary team to make strategic decisions and empowering team members.\nIn particular, you will:\nCollaborate within a multi-disciplinary team of product managers, designers, software engineers, machine learning and biomedical scientists.\n\nDesign, build, and maintain scalable, reliable AI systems.\n\nDrive technical decisions and provide context-aware solutions for AI systems in biological research.\n\nLeverage and pioneer evaluation methodologies to ensure continuous product improvement.\n\nExperiment with cutting-edge industry solutions-orchestration patterns, fine-tuning, specialized monitoring, feedback loops, etc.\n\nLead core stack component development focusing on sustainability, scalability, security, reliability, and performance.\n\nFoster team growth by sharing expertise and mentoring colleagues through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.\n\nParticipate in a team wise shared on-call rotation.\n\nExample of scope:\nLead Agent Development: Drive the development of Owkin agents and actively contribute to the core components of our platform, \"K-Pro.\"\n\nOptimize Analytical Workflows to feed the agents with the data they need when they need it - e.g. analytical DBs (DuckDB), distributed computing (AWS Athena, Trino, etc), integration with data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc).\n\nDeployment and Integration: Manage the seamless integration and deployment of agents within Owkin's broader Data Platform infrastructure.\n\nAbout you\nRequired qualifications / experience:\nYou’re driven by impact - excited to empower biomedical researchers with intuitive, AI-driven tools that unlock scientific discovery.\n\nStrong collaborative skills with an open, pragmatic mindset; you thrive in multidisciplinary environments that involve people with diverse backgrounds.\n\nClear and effective communicator who can translate technical complexity into actionable decisions for the team.\n\nDeep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure design, and building resilient distributed systems - including complex analytical workflows.\n\nExtensive experience with production environments: continuous deployment, high availability, observability, and security.\n\nCuriosity and ideally hands-on experience with AI systems - from integrating LLMs to evaluating their performance in real-world workflows.\n\nPassion for user experience and product thinking: you consider not only the system’s internals but how the end user interacts with and benefits from your work.\n\nProficiency with Claude Code and other AI software engineering tools\n\nFluent English, both written and spoken.\n\nStack: Python, Kubernetes, AWS\n\nPreferred qualifications/bonus:\nExperience working with spatial transcriptomics data.\n\nKnowledge of different technologies for distributed computing, databases, and serialization.\n\nFront-end development experience (although the position is mostly back-end oriented)\n\nDirect experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.\n\n#LI-MD1\nWhat we offer\nFlexible work organization\n\nFriendly and informal working environment\n\nOpportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds\n\nRecruitment Process & Security\nPlease complete the form and submit your CV.\n\nOwkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.\n\nOwkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:\n\nLegitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.\n\nCommunication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @ owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).\n\nThe Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @ Owkin.com.\n\nThe Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;\n\nLegitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). 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