Staff Engineer at Dayhoff Labs

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Staff Engineer at Dayhoff Labs

Company Description: Dayhoff Labs - DeepTech AI biology startup backed by DCVC

Job Description:
Own the technical evolution of a frontier biochemistry search platform. You will architect robust cloud infrastructure, design greenfield database systems for ML training, and transition internal tools into production-ready external services. This generalist role offers massive ownership across the full stack, directly enabling breakthrough research in pharma, energy, and synthetic biology.

Why this role is remarkable:

• Work at the intersection of frontier AI and biology under the leadership of the founder who started DeepMind's AlphaFold project.

• Enjoy unusual technical breadth, owning everything from Terraform and AWS migrations to React frontends and production-grade ML inference APIs.

• Join a high-caliber team of experts from CERN, Caltech, MIT, and Google, backed by top-tier venture capital firm DCVC.

What you will do:

• Build and evolve Horizyn-as-a-service into a production-ready product, including API enhancements, security hardening, and deployment automation.

• Design and implement a scalable database system integrating structured biochemical data from KEGG and UniProt with unstructured experimental results.

• Manage multi-account AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform while migrating legacy GCP systems to a unified production environment.

The ideal candidate:

• Has 5+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of owning complex distributed systems end-to-end.

• Possesses deep expertise in Python, Docker containerization, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform within AWS or GCP environments.

• Brings experience in ML infrastructure, such as model serving, GPU compute orchestration, or building specialized data pipelines for research teams.

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