Sr AI Software Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Remote$190k - $260kFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior software engineer role at Artos building AI-native, end-to-end production web applications and AI-powered workflows for life sciences document management.
Responsibilities
- Own and build product features end-to-end, from React and TypeScript interfaces through backend services, APIs, data models, and production deployment
- Design intuitive experiences for complex, document-heavy enterprise workflows while building the systems required to make them reliable, performant, and scalable
- Develop AI-native product experiences that allow users to generate, review, validate, and interact with AI-generated scientific and regulatory content
- Work closely with product, design, AI, and customer-facing teams to turn real customer problems into high-quality software
- Make pragmatic technical and architectural decisions, improve the platform as it scales, and take responsibility for your work from initial concept through production
- Move quickly in an environment where requirements evolve, problems aren't always clearly defined, and engineers are expected to help determine what should be built—not simply how to build it
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications
- Strong experience building backend services and APIs using Python, Node.js, or similar technologies, with the ability to contribute across the stack using technologies such as React and TypeScript
- Solid understanding of application architecture, API design, databases, testing, and the fundamentals required to build reliable production systems
- Experience building complex, data-intensive product experiences and integrating frontend applications with backend services
- Strong product judgment and the ability to simplify complicated technical or business workflows into intuitive software
- Comfortable debugging unfamiliar systems, and making sound technical decisions without requiring perfect specifications
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving startup environment
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Nice to Have: Experience with LLM or GenAI-powered applications, document processing, RAG or retrieval systems, Docker/cloud infrastructure, or regulated industries such as life sciences or healthcare
Skills
Required:ReactTypeScriptPythonAPI Design
Nice to have:Node.jsAI/GenAIRegulated environments
Benefits
- Very comfortable working in a fast-paced and intense startup environment
- Willing to work in-person in our office in Mission Bay 4-5 days/week
- Likes matcha KitKats, believes every LLM prompt is just Schrödinger’s cat waiting to be observed, and knows too many random facts about the Mongol postal system
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Artos
Authoring documents for life sciences in minutes, not months.
Artos is an AI-based document-drafting platform that helps life sciences companies turn their data into critical documents in minutes. These submissions currently take months and are the final hurdle before life sciences companies are allowed to sell their product.
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