Software Engineer (Backed by $9M from Kleiner Perkins)

About Day One Partners

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Day One Partners is a search firm that partners with venture capital firms to help build high-growth startups. We lead confidential searches for leadership and critical roles across a range of company stages, industries, and functions

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About The Role

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We’re working with an early stage AI company building software for the life sciences industry. They’re looking for a generalist engineer who wants broad ownership and enjoys moving between product, infrastructure, data, and AI depending on what needs to be solved.

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You’ll work closely with customers, ship quickly, and take meaningful features from idea through production.

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What You’ll Do:

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• Build product features across large scale data pipelines, backend systems, and web applications
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• Own significant features and areas of the codebase from start to finish
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• Work directly with customers to understand what’s missing and turn feedback into working product
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• Take on technically challenging projects that add new capabilities to the platform
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What You’ll Bring:

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• 2+ years of experience as a generalist software engineer
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• Comfort working across the stack and picking up unfamiliar technical problems
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• A computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent technical background
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• An interest in LLMs and how they can be applied to real customer problems
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Why You’ll Love This Role:

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• Significant ownership at an early stage company
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• Exposure to full stack engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI
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• Direct interaction with customers and a strong voice in the product
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• React, Python, LLM evaluation, model training, startup, or life sciences experience is a plus
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