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Bioptimus is hiring a Technical Lead, Product

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver full-stack features for B2B scientific software, covering backend services and frontend interfaces.
  • Drive features from concept through to production while maintaining high standards of code quality, performance, and long-term maintainability.
  • Architect and manage scalable APIs and services using REST and gRPC protocols to integrate machine learning models into product functionalities.
  • Create and maintain data processing pipelines using core technologies including Python, SQL, and associated tools.
  • Build product layers on top of SDKs and model packages, providing feedback to improve interface design and functionality.
  • Define and enforce engineering best practices and architectural patterns for owned systems.
  • Lead technical design efforts for complex, cross-functional challenges with unclear requirements.
  • Support junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
  • Leverage AI-assisted coding tools such as opencode and Claude to increase development efficiency.
  • Contribute to the adoption and refinement of AI-native software development workflows within the engineering team.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Engineers and infrastructure specialists to ensure solutions meet scientific accuracy and customer needs.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and equity compensation
  • Flexible work policy with global remote eligibility
  • Pathways for career advancement and skill development
  • Team-oriented culture focused on a shared mission
  • Equity stake offering meaningful ownership in the company
  • High potential for leadership growth in the AI-biology domain

Compensation

Competitive salary and equity package

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide) — remote, Paris

The candidate journey

  • Screening: The hiring team will assess your application to evaluate alignment with required experience and technical qualifications.
  • Interview Process: Selected candidates will proceed to a multi-stage interview sequence, with possible variations in order or additional discussions as needed.
  • Hiring Manager (30 min): A discussion covering your professional background, technical expertise, and experience with coding and cloud platforms.
  • Case Study (45 min): You will complete a take-home assignment based on real product engineering tasks and present your approach and solution without live coding.
  • System Design (45 min): A live, candidate-led session focused on technical decision-making and product delivery, based on a realistic scenario involving model integration.
  • Culture Fit (30 min): A group conversation to explore your motivations, values alignment with the company’s mission, and final questions.
  • Offer: After interviews, the team will decide and communicate the outcome. Final offers depend on passing reference checks.
  • On-boarding: Upon acceptance and signing, onboarding procedures will begin to integrate you into the organization.

Why This is a Unique Opportunity

  • Direct reporting to the Head of Product, playing a key role in transforming foundation models into customer-facing products that advance AI in drug discovery and healthcare.
  • Opportunity to apply software engineering skills to real-world biological challenges, contributing directly to patient impact through cutting-edge AI models.
  • In addition to strong financial compensation, you will receive meaningful equity, aligning your success with the company’s long-term trajectory.
  • Fully flexible work setup with remote options, supporting work-life balance while driving innovation.
  • Substantial room for professional and leadership growth in a fast-moving field combining artificial intelligence and biology.

Other

  • Full professional proficiency in English is required.
  • This role is open to candidates in multiple locations, including fully remote positions.
  • Applicants must submit an English CV to be considered.
  • Offer is contingent upon successful reference verification.
About company
Bioptimus

Bioptimus is building the first universal AI foundation model that connects biology at its different scales – from molecules to cells, tissues, and whole organisms. The company trains foundation models natively across modalities and scales to learn the dynamics of human biology and predict what happens next.

Its models are designed to jointly learn from multimodal data spanning histology, spatial transcriptomics, genomics, and clinical records. This enables deeper biological insights for drug discovery, biomarker identification, indication expansion, and clinical trial design.

Bioptimus powers research at over 1,000 institutions worldwide, including 16 of the top 20 pharma companies. Its models are benchmarked as the #1 performing in independent evaluations and are used in peer-reviewed research and real-world applications.

The company is driven by a world-class team with deep expertise in machine learning and biology, originating from institutions like Google Brain, Google DeepMind, MIT, ETH Zürich, and more. 60% of the team hold PhDs, and it is guided by a scientific advisory board at the frontier of AI and biology.

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Job Details
Department Product
Category management
Posted a month ago