Software Engineer

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease. The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery. Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed. Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI’s powerful capabilities, we can model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases. We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design. Every day, and with each new breakthrough, we’re getting closer to the promise of digital biology, and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.

Your impact

In the Product Engineering team we help scientists leverage the latest drug design capabilities and accelerate their workflows by providing tools and insights at each step of the drug discovery pipeline. As a part of this team you will be working on developing various aspects of our world-class AI-powered drug design platform. You will be working in a highly creative, iterative environment, alongside engineers, scientists and ML researchers to develop a world-class product, with collaboration across both our London and Lausanne offices. We’re still at a relatively early stage in our journey, with a level of ambiguity as we continuously learn from each other, so you will need to build on your previous experience and show initiative in order to fully carve out your contribution in this newly created role.

What You Will Do

• Design and develop software products to solve real-world scientific user needs.
• Collaborate with scientific end-users to understand their domain and requirements.
• Partner with the Product team to design compelling and intuitive user experiences.
• Architect cloud-native applications, workloads and libraries.
• Model data in transactional and analytical data stores.
• Contribute to the design/implementation of web application interfaces.
• Collaborate with multiple other engineering teams to deliver the best results.

Skills and qualifications

Essential

• Proven experience building web applications and working in rapid iterative environments.
• Demonstrable experience leading software projects or in a technical leadership role.
• Proven experience writing production code in a mainstream language, ideally TypeScript or Python.
• Strong software engineering and design skills, from UI to databases.
• Knowledge of data storage modelling paradigms and trade-offs.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure.
• Either a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Enthusiasm to learn about chemistry and biology.

Nice to have

• Hands on experience with Python / Typescript / Postgres / GraphQL / Kubernetes / React.
• Basic knowledge of chemistry / biology.
• Experience developing internal tools.
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, ideally with a focus on drug discovery.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It’s not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

• Thoughtful: Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.
• Brave: Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.
• Determined: Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. Its a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.
• Together: Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating An Extraordinary Company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We’re building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

Hybrid working

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

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