{"id":846715,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer","title":"Founding Software Engineer","company":{"id":1875,"name":"Tamarind Bio","domain":"tamarind.bio","url":"https://alion.io/company/tamarind-bio","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":7,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":153000,"max_usd":323000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":8485},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon EC2","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA Toolkit","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":false},{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"HPC","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"SLURM","optional":false},{"name":"TensorFlow","optional":false},{"name":"Vercel","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-05-11T02:22:28Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-05-11","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T01:42:23Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":159,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":159},"description":"About Tamarind Bio\nWe enable any scientist to access AI-powered drug discovery. Thousands of scientists from large pharma companies, top biotechs, and academic institutions use Tamarind to design protein drugs, improve industrial enzymes, and create cutting edge molecules that weren’t feasible until now.\nNew AI models are quickly eclipsing physics-based tools in computational drug discovery. Scientists often struggle to fine-tune, deploy, and scale these models, leaving breakthroughs on the table. Tamarind provides a simple interface to the vast array of tools being released daily.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re hiring three exceptional Founding Software Engineers to help us scale the computational biology platform that powers our drug discovery pipeline.\nIn this role, you’ll collaborate closely with the founders to design, build, and scale our infrastructure, APIs, and web interface. You’ll own major pieces of our stack end-to-end - from architecture to deployment - and ship features that directly impact scientists and customers.\nYou’ll be responsible for maintaining and expanding the core systems that underpin our computational biology tooling, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as we grow.\nThis is a deeply collaborative and customer-facing role. You’ll work directly with users to understand their needs, translate feedback into product improvements, and deliver elegant solutions that accelerate their research.\nTechstack:\nPython, React, AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, CUDA, Conda, TensorFlow/PyTorch; notebooks; bash/Slurm; APIs & web apps.\n\nWeek in the Life:\nPartner with founders on product decisions, scope experiments, and ship quickly\n\nBuild/operate services (infra + ML + web) and iterate with customer feedback\n\nMix of coding, design reviews, and practical deployment work\n\nOnsite expectation: Team currently onsite in SF ~5 days/week.\n\nIdeal Qualifications:\nAdaptability and openness to work on diverse problems (e.g. batch HPC scaling, frontend development, automated fine-tuning…)\n\nAWS DevOps (DynamoDB, EC2, S3, docker, etc.) and MLOps (CUDA, Conda, Tensorflow, PyTorch)\n\nFront-end development (React/Vercel)\n\nWillingness to learn about biology-ML models\n\nLocated in the SF Bay Area or able to relocate to the Bay Area\n\nPluses:\nExperience with AI/ML models across various architectures and environments\n\nTechnology\nOur technology sits at the intersection of DevOps, MLOps, and Computational Biology. We deal with problems ranging from scaling ML inference on AWS for hundreds of GPUs to dissecting pdb files with Biopython. We deploy a wide range of open source ML models for customers, navigating between Docker containers, Colab notebooks, bash scripts, slurm jobs, and more.\nOur Interview Process\nWe keep our process focused, transparent, and designed to give both sides a clear sense of fit.\n1. Recruiter Screen (15-30 minutes) - Virtual\nMeet with our recruiter to dive into your background, interests, and what you’re looking for next. We’ll also walk you through the company, team, and role.\n2. Technical Interview (90 minutes) - Virtual\nCo-Founder Interview (30 minutes): A conversation with Deniz Kavi (CEO & Co-founder) about product, collaboration, and how you approach building in an early-stage environment.\n\nTechnical Deep Dive (60 minutes): A live coding and problem-solving session with Sherry Liu (CTO & Co-founder) or a member of our engineering team.\n\n3. Onsite (1 day) - San Francisco\nSpend a day with us working on a mini project and meeting the team.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3515,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Drug Discovery","AI for Science"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-13T01:11:26Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":222500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.21,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":158,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/tamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/tamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T05:40:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":7665,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1875},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1875"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ftamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ftamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/tamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftamarind-bio-founding-software-engineer"}]}