Software Engineer

The role

You will build an Agentic AI product for biomedical researchers by combining engineering practices with AI technologies. You will work on a real-time system that integrates LLMs, tool-calling, and interactive UI elements.

What you will do

• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable AI systems
• Drive technical decisions and provide context-aware solutions for AI systems
• Leverage and pioneer evaluation methodologies
• Experiment with orchestration patterns, fine-tuning, specialized monitoring, and feedback loops
• Lead core stack component development
• Mentor colleagues through code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
• Participate in a team wise shared on-call rotation
• Drive the development of Owkin agents and contribute to K-Pro
• Optimize analytical workflows and manage agent deployment

Required qualifications

• Strong collaborative skills with an open, pragmatic mindset
• Clear and effective communicator
• Deep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure design, and building resilient distributed systems
• Extensive experience with production environments including continuous deployment, high availability, observability, and security
• Curiosity and hands-on experience with AI systems
• Passion for user experience and product thinking
• Proficiency with Claude Code and other AI software engineering tools
• Fluent English, both written and spoken
• Python
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Nice to have

• Experience working with spatial transcriptomics data
• Knowledge of different technologies for distributed computing, databases, and serialization
• Front-end development experience
• Direct experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow

Benefits

• Flexible work organization
• Friendly and informal working environment
• Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Before you apply

• Please submit your CV in English

About the company

Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology. The company builds K Pro, an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making.