Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Sim

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About the role

  • Staff Forward Deployed Engineer in AI simulation at SandboxAQ, ensuring technical success of key partnerships. Collaborating with scientists to tackle drug discovery and chemical simulation challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with scientific teams to audit workflows, diagnose technical blockers, and take full accountability for the end-to-end technical execution of client contracts.
  • Design and deploy high-velocity code to extend existing tools, or build new frameworks for wrapping scientific logic and automating complex R&D workflows.
  • Serve as the technical translator between non-technical researchers and product teams, validating proposed solutions and ensuring they meet rigorous scientific requirements.
  • Own the deployment and maintenance of cloud-based compute resources and data pipelines, ensuring stability and performance throughout the contract lifecycle.
  • Lead the integration of internal core technologies, such as LQMs and Agentic systems, into bespoke client environments to solve major scientific challenges.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software development experience, with deep proficiency in Python and modern architectural patterns.
  • Proven ability to operate independently in high-ambiguity environments, moving from ideation to functional code with high velocity.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud orchestration (Kubernetes, Batch systems) and workflow management tools like Airflow.
  • Technical expertise in building REST APIs, managing database systems (ORMs, schemas), and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of shipping systems in fast-moving, customer-facing environments.
  • Domain expertise in drug discovery, cheminformatics, or advanced materials is highly desired.
  • Experience delivering scientific code for R&D projects involving simulation or numerical optimization is highly desired.
  • Familiarity with High-Performance Computing (HPC), GPU programming, and optimization is highly desired.
  • Exposure to AI applications involving knowledge graphs, AI agents, or multi-agent systems is highly desired.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
  • Retirement savings with company matching
  • Paid parental leave
  • Inclusive family-building benefits
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Company-wide seasonal breaks
  • Support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$168,880 - CA$253,320 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AirflowCloudKubernetesPythonTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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