Software Engineer II, Machine Learning Systems & Productization

JOB SUMMARY Iambic Therapeutics is seeking a Software Engineer to join the NeuralPLexer team, focusing on the engineering systems that enable machine learning research to translate into robust, scalable workflows for drug discovery. This role sits directly alongside ML scientists and emphasizes co-development: helping design, implement, and harden the workflows used to train, evaluate, and apply models on structural (e.g., protein–ligand complexes), affinity, and synthetic data. You will play a key role in turning research code into reliable, reusable systems—without being responsible for core model development. This is a remote position based on the US East Coast. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Work embedded with ML scientists to co-develop and refine model training and evaluation workflows - Translate experimental research code into maintainable, well-structured, and reusable systems - Build and expand benchmarking systems for running models on structural and affinity datasets, computing metrics, and supporting reproducible evaluation - Enable rapid iteration by developing tooling and interfaces that expose new capabilities to researchers - Contribute to the ongoing development and productization of NeuralPLexer - Collaborate with platform and infrastructure engineers on scaling workflows where needed, without owning core infrastructure - Perform code reviews and actively mentor best practices in software engineering across the team - Improve reliability, clarity, and reproducibility of ML workflows and supporting systems - Communicate technical work effectively across a cross-functional research and engineering team QUALIFICATIONS Required - 8+ years of software engineering experience (or equivalent), ideally in ML-adjacent or data-intensive environments - Strong Python skills and demonstrated rigor in software engineering practices (testing, versioning, code quality) - Experience working closely with ML practitioners or in research-driven environments - Experience building or supporting ML workflows, data pipelines, or evaluation systems - Ability to operate in partially defined, research-heavy environments and bring structure to evolving codebases - Strong collaboration skills and comfort with pair programming and iterative development Preferred - Experience with scientific or computational research environments - Familiarity with structural biology, chemistry, or molecular modeling workflows - Exposure to cloud-based systems (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes) and/or HPC - Experience working with large-scale or heterogeneous datasets ABOUT IAMBIC THERAPEUTICS Iambic is a clinical-stage life-science and technology company developing novel medicines using its AI-driven discovery and development platform. Based in San Diego and founded in 2020, Iambic has assembled a world-class team that unites pioneering AI experts and experienced drug hunters. The Iambic platform has demonstrated delivery of new drug candidates to human clinical trials with unprecedented speed and across multiple target classes and mechanisms of action. Iambic is advancing a pipeline of potential best-in-class and first-in-class clinical assets, both internally and in partnership, to address urgent unmet patient need. Learn more about the Iambic team, platform, pipeline, and partnerships at iambic.ai http://iambic.ai. MISSION & CORE VALUES Our mission is to deliver better medicines through innovations in AI-based discovery technologies. The culture and work at Iambic Therapeutics are profoundly strengthened by the diversity of our people and our differences in background, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and life experiences. We are committed to building an inclusive environment where a diverse group of talented humans work together to discover therapeutics and create technologies. PAY AND BENEFITS We offer industry leading competitive pay, company paid healthcare, flexible spending accounts, voluntary life insurance, 401K matching, and uncapped vacat