Staff/Principal Software Engineer (Quality Platform), London

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery. 

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you. 

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed.

Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI’s powerful capabilities, we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Every day, and with each new breakthrough, we’re getting closer to the promise of digital biology, and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.

 

Senior Software Engineer (Quality Platform), London or Lausanne

Your Impact

As a founding member of the Quality Platform team, you will be a key contributor to our organizational engineering quality and standards. This is not a traditional quality assurance role; it is about building the systems and infrastructure that empower the entire organization to deliver high-quality, reliable, and production-ready code and ML models. Your work will enable researchers, scientists, and engineers to do their most performant and trusted work. You will own and develop testing frameworks and tooling, providing testing insights and automation at scale.

What You Will Do

• Architect and build a comprehensive Quality Platform: This includes creating testing frameworks and observability tools from scratch that are used across all engineering and research domains.
• Lead engineering quality initiatives: Define and drive standards for code quality, testing, and CI/CD pipelines across the organization.
• Provide technical guidance: Mentor and collaborate with engineers and researchers, assisting them in developing high-quality tests and integrating them into their workflows.
• Develop automated solutions: Build robust test infrastructure and automation frameworks from scratch, and integrate them into a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) manner.
• Drive data-informed decisions: Communicate engineering and research quality insights and metrics across the organization to proactively identify concerns before they reach users.
• Influence the technical direction: As a Staff/Principal level engineer, you will have a significant impact on our long-term technical strategy for quality and engineering productivity.

Skills and Qualifications Essential

• Either a degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience creating and maintaining both individual tests and testing frameworks.
• Strong backend coding skills and a deep proficiency in engineering architecture and design.
• Demonstrated experience building automation frameworks or test infrastructure from scratch, with a focus on CI/CD.
• Proven experience developing comprehensive test plans, protocols, and reports for large-scale, multi-component software systems.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• At least five years of industry experience as a software engineer in test or in a similar engineering productivity/platform role.
• Demonstrated success in delivering high-quality testing projects that have a significant impact on an organization.
• Experience working effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Nice to have

• Experience with scientific software and/or ML pipelines, particularly in drug discovery.
• Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments and efficiently managing multiple products simultaneously.
• Proficiency with Python, Pytest, GitHub Actions, Cypress, or TypeScript.
• Experience with observability tools and metrics.
• Knowledge of ISO standards for software quality.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it. 

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid working

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

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