About the Role:We're growing fast, and we're looking for an engineer who thrives in a high-velocity environment and wants to do meaningful work. At Artos, you'll help accelerate development of a platform that supports companies - from innovative biotech startups to the world's largest pharmaceutical firms - in delivering life-saving treatments to patients faster than ever before.
As a core member of Artos's engineering team, you'll play a critical role in developing, scaling, and expanding the Artos platform to serve regulatory needs for pharma and life science companies around the globe.
Qualifications:- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 2+ years of software development experience building and deploying AI/ML applications
- Hands-on experience building LLM-based applications
- Designing multi-step LLM workflows and task-specific agents
- Experience working with frontier models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)
- Experience with AI tools as a user, specifically AI code editors
- Developing advanced prompt engineering strategies, evaluation frameworks, and RAG pipelines
- Conducting technical R&D to explore and define the boundaries of model functionality
- Use of evaluation tools such as Langfuse or LangSmith
- Strong backend engineering experience, including:
- Building APIs from the ground up using Python frameworks such as FastAPI and Django
- Deploying and scaling containerized applications in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
Requirements:- Ability to design and maintain scalable, production-grade backend systems for AI applications
- Ability to create, orchestrate, and evaluate LLM-based agents and chained workflows with minimal oversight
- Ability to implement and orchestrate multi-step agentic workflows
- Ability to debug and improve LLM-driven systems, identifying issues across multiple layers (model output, API behavior, system logic)
- Ability to conduct rapid experimentation and research on LLM capabilities and translate findings into production functionality
- Ability to stay current with emerging practices, models, and tooling in the generative AI ecosystem and apply them pragmatically
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical collaborators (e.g., product managers, medical writers, customer teams)
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguity-heavy environment, managing shifting priorities and novel problem spaces
Nice to Have:- Worked with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi
- Implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)
- Experience working in or adjacent to regulated domains (life sciences, clinical R&D) is a plus
- Frontend development experience (e.g., React) is a plus, but not required
Other Information:Very comfortable working in a fast-paced and intense startup environment
Willing to work in-person in our office in Mission Bay 4-5 days/week
Likes matcha KitKats, believes every LLM prompt is just Schrödinger's cat waiting to be observed, and knows too many random facts about the Mongol postal system
