Product Engineer, Sciences

Mecka AI

$110K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in full-stack software engineering
  • Proficiency in building and maintaining production software across frontend, backend, and database
  • Strong understanding of experimental workflows through lab work or close collaboration with scientists
  • Ability to create clear, interactive user interfaces
  • Experience with backend development, APIs, and data processing
  • Strong product judgement and ability to make decisions under ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Develop full-stack products from initial prototype to reliable daily operations
  • Work closely with scientists to understand lab protocols and translate them into software requirements
  • Build integrations and manage data flow while ensuring context preservation
  • Test, deploy, monitor, and support software for production quality
  • Identify improvements through user feedback and communicate tradeoffs

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work directly with scientists and important laboratory tasks
  • Work on impactful products that enhance scientific workflows
  • Engage in a hands-on role across multiple technology stacks
  • Collaborate in an environment that values user feedback for product iterations
  • Encouragement and support for candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply
Full Job Description
As Product Engineer, Sciences, you'll build software for scientists and technical users. Bring the engineering ability to ship useful products and the lab fluency to understand the work behind them. You'll work closely with the Sciences team and users to identify problems, make product decisions and iterate quickly. This is a hands-on role across frontend, backend and data, with ownership from the first prototype through production use. Lab fluency can come from bench experience or sustained work building scientific software alongside experimental scientists. What you will be doing: • Build full-stack products: Develop interfaces, backend services and data models that make scientific workflows easier to use. Carry work from a useful first release into reliable daily operation. Understand laboratory work: Work directly with scientists to understand protocols, instruments, experimental records and practical constraints. Translate that understanding into clear requirements and usable software. • Connect systems and data: Build integrations, imports and exports. Preserve context and traceability while handling incomplete records, validation failures and changing input formats. Own production quality: Test, deploy, monitor and support your work. Maintain access controls, debug failures and improve performance based on real usage. • Make product decisions: Identify the most useful next improvement, test it with users and communicate tradeoffs. Adapt to unfamiliar problems and work with specialists when deeper expertise is needed. Who You Are: • Full-stack engineering: You've shipped and maintained production software across the frontend, backend and database, and can debug across those boundaries. • Lab fluency: You understand experimental workflows, protocols, controls and sources of variability through bench work or sustained scientific software work with experimental users. User-facing development: You build clear, interactive interfaces and can turn complex requirements into practical workflows that users can understand. • Backend and data: You can build reliable APIs, work with databases and file storage, and investigate errors in data-processing workflows. • Product judgment and ownership: You work directly with users, make scope decisions under ambiguity and follow through after release. Strong Signals • Products used regularly by scientists or laboratory operators, with improvements shaped by their feedback. • Experience with scientific records, instrument integrations or data-intensive review workflows. Practical use of AI tools in products or engineering, with attention to validation and failure handling. A Note on Applying Studies show women and candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they meet 100% of the listed qualifications, while others apply after meeting 60%. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply - we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match.

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