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Member of Technical Staff - Agent Engineer

Phylo · South San Francisco

Bio & Science AIonsite$200k–$300k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build agentic intelligence to accelerate discovery for biomedical scientists.
  • Own agent harness in production and improve reliability and quality.
  • Build rigorous evaluations on representative scientific tasks.

What they offer

  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage including therapy and eyewear stipend
  • 401(k) for long-term financial security (US only)
  • Unlimited PTO (US only)
  • Lunch and snacks in the office
  • Regular team offsites and company events

Ideal candidate

A strong backend engineer with quantitative instincts who thrives owning ambiguous agent systems end-to-end. You care about rigorous measurement and applying AI agents to accelerate biomedical discovery.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience building production backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems
  • Research or production experience in machine learning or another quantitative discipline
  • Familiarity with LLM APIs, tool calling, agent runtimes, or workflow orchestration
  • Strong quantitative judgment to assess if improvements are real and reproducible
  • Ability to move between research, data analysis, system design, and production implementation
  • Experience or strong interest in AI for science and automated discovery
  • Experience in AI-native teams using coding agents extensively
  • High ownership, clear communication, and strong engineering judgment

Lab profile

About Phylo

Applied research lab building agentic AI to accelerate biomedical discovery.

What they build

  • Biomni platform

Known for

  • Agentic intelligence
  • Biomedical research

Key facts

  • Backed by $13.5M seed round
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