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via ats_greenhouse · 11 June 2026 ·5 days ago

Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Platform

flagshippioneeringinc

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ABOUT PIONEERING INTELLIGENCE 
Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneering’s legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures, harnessing recent advances in AI, machine learning, and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagship’s integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital, it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies, elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health, sustainability, and beyond.

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The Role 
The Pioneering Intelligence group at Flagship Pioneering is building intelligent software systems that integrate agentic AI with scientific reasoning to accelerate discovery and decision-making. At the center of this effort is a new autonomous research platform. It supports autonomous AI systems that reason over complex biological problems. 
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the underlying agentic platform: the durable orchestration layer on which long-running, multi-agent, multi-model scientific workflows run reliably. 
This is a hands-on architect role for a senior engineer who has built and operated distributed systems at scale and wants to take agentic AI from research to production. You will set the technical foundation and standards for the platform, work shoulder-to-shoulder with AI scientists, engineers, and domain experts, and turn frontier agent patterns into reusable, dependable infrastructure. 
Key Responsibilities 
Own the agentic platform end to end, from research prototype to production, building the durable orchestration layer for long-running, multi-stage scientific workflows. Architect workflow orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and event-driven distributed systems that deliver scale, resilience, and reliability. 
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<li>Define SDK abstractions and API contracts between model and agent outputs and downstream consumers, decoupling rapid model iteration from product stability and reducing integration friction across teams. </li>
<li>Deliver infrastructure-as-code reference implementations (AWS CDK, Terraform, containerized services) and transform exploratory AI proof-of-concepts into hardened, reusable patterns adopted across product domains. </li>
<li>Own platform cost-efficiency and scalability while preserving the performance and accuracy that our experiments and end users require. </li>
<li>Explore and template agent design and deployment patterns, and set technical standards, code quality, and architectural direction for the platform. </li>
<li>Partner across teams (modeling and agent teams, product) to align on integration points, dependency timelines, and delivery, and mentor engineers and scientists. </li>
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Professional Experience & Qualifications 
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<li>B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with 10+ years of professional software development experience. </li>
<li>Demonstrated track record architecting and maintaining large-scale distributed systems in production at technology companies. </li>
<li>Deep expertise in workflow orchestration and event-driven architecture, including stateful execution, idempotency, durable retries, and replay. </li>
<li>Strong cloud-native engineering on AWS with infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and autoscaling. </li>
<li>Proven ability to take systems from prototype to hardened, observable, operationally excellent production. </li>
<li>Experience designing SDKs, APIs, and data contracts that serve multiple downstream teams. </li>
<li>Excellent communication skills and the ability to build organizational consensus around platform decisions. </li>
<li>Collaborative and empathetic working style: listens to understand the needs of scientists, engineers, and downstream teams, and leads through influence. </li>
<li>Proven track record setting technical strategy and direction for a growing engineering organization, and mentoring engineers in a fast-moving environment. </li>
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Preferred Qualifications 
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<li>Hands-on experience with agentic AI and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Pydantic AI, LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen). </li>
<li>Experience integrating LLMs and model platforms, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Amazon Bedrock, and building evaluation and feedback-loop frameworks for agentic systems. </li>
<li>Familiarity with sandboxed code execution and agent harness development. </li>
<li>Experience with LLM observability and monitoring tooling and cost-governance / FinOps for AI infrastructure. </li>
<li>Background in scientific domains such as biology, chemistry, or complex systems (a plus, not required). </li>
</ul>
Why Join Us 
By joining the Agentic AI team within Flagship’s Pioneering Intelligence group, you will: 
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<li>Own the platform foundation for a category-defining autonomous scientific reasoning engine. </li>
<li>Take frontier agentic AI from research to dependable production at scale. </li>
<li>Collaborate with visionary thinkers and top-tier researchers across Flagship’s ecosystem. </li>
<li>Set the technical standards that the broader platform and product teams build on. </li>
<li>Shape the future of AI-powered discovery in a role that combines deep engineering excellence with direct human-health impact. </

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