Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI – AI Platform for Life Sciences

Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) | On-site | Full-time

MaxIT Consulting is looking for a Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI to join a venture-backed, early-stage AI company building an AI-native operating system for drug development programs, already used by leading biopharma companies.

The Opportunity

This role spans the whole stack: backend services, applied AI workflows, search pipelines and the customer-facing product. Pilot customers ask for a feature and see it working days later.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services on Python, FastAPI and Postgres.
• Build applied AI workflows with the OpenAI API, LangGraph, vector databases and search systems.
• Develop ingestion, indexing and search pipelines for scientific and regulatory documents.
• Build customer-facing features end to end, from data model and API to the React/TypeScript frontend.
• Ground AI outputs in source data with traceable, verifiable citations.
• Work directly with founders, domain experts and early customers, owning outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping production software end to end.
• Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, databases and services.
• Comfortable through the frontend with React and TypeScript.
• Hands-on production experience with LLMs, agents, RAG or vector databases.
• Fast, accountable builder who uses AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) daily.

Nice to Have

• LangGraph, agent frameworks or RAG systems in production; semantic search and knowledge graphs.
• Enterprise SaaS, healthcare or life sciences products; seed or early-stage startup experience.

Work Arrangement

On-site role in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area); fully remote is not possible. Candidates must live in or relocate to the Bay Area and must already be authorized to work in the United States.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply through this same channel with your updated resume and your expected gross annual base salary in USD.