Software Engineer I/II – Scientific Computing

. Partner with computational chemists and machine learning researchers to understand research needs and deliver practical software solutions .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeBoston • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $129,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSPython

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with computational chemists and machine learning researchers to understand research needs and deliver practical software solutions
Build and maintain Python applications, libraries, APIs, and command-line tools
Develop reliable workflows for drug discovery workloads
Improve orchestration, monitoring, and recovery for workloads on AWS and neo-clouds such as Modal and Lambda
Integrate scientific applications with shared data, compute, and model services
Troubleshoot issues and document tools
Help scientists use tools effectively
Contribute to design, testing, review, deployment, and production support

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and five or more years of software development experience, or equivalent practical experience
Strong Python skills
Experience writing clear, tested, maintainable production code
Experience running scientific or batch workloads on AWS
Experience with Prefect or another workflow orchestration system
Familiarity with computational chemistry workloads such as molecular dynamics or docking
Familiarity with the machine learning model lifecycle
Strong service mindset and clear communication
Genuine interest in helping scientists be effective
Must be currently authorized to work in the United States
Must address required application questions about maintainability of research codebases or ML workflows and data pipeline/platform decisions

Comp & perks