Solstice

Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI)

New York City. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will own complete AI features from product problem through implementation, deployment, and operation. You will build AI capabilities for scientific content creation and integrate them into production Python services.

What you will do

  • Build and operate AI capabilities for scientific content creation, evidence-grounded claims, review, and revision
  • Design retrieval and context flows across prescribing information, clinical data, approved assets, style guides, and claim libraries
  • Shape model and tool behavior with prompts, structured outputs, and agent design
  • Build representative evaluations and inspect failure cases
  • Handle incomplete evidence, malformed model output, failed tools, and stale context
  • Integrate capabilities into production Python services with observability and regression checks
  • Work with ML engineers on model, representation, retrieval, or dataset improvements
  • Iterate with product, design, and customer teams

Required qualifications

  • Experience shipping and operating production AI or LLM features
  • Strong Python and practical backend engineering skills
  • Experience with APIs, testing, data contracts, failure handling, and debugging production systems
  • Sound judgment about retrieval, context, tool use, workflow design, and model capabilities and limitations
  • Evidence of evaluating AI systems and using evidence to improve them
  • Ability to connect model behavior to application behavior
  • Product judgment and end-to-end ownership
  • Clear communication and willingness to explain tradeoffs and seek feedback

Nice to have

  • Experience with FastAPI, Docker, and AWS
  • Experience with scientific content, document-heavy workflows, or regulated enterprise products
  • Healthcare or pharma experience

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Ground-floor equity opportunity
  • Visa sponsorship for O-1, H-1B, and TN visas
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401(k) with a 4% company match
  • In-office lunches five days a week
  • Professional growth stipend
  • Relocation support

About the company

Solstice builds AI software that helps life sciences teams create, refine, and review pharmaceutical marketing content. They have worked with leading life sciences manufacturers and more than 50 pharma brands.

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