Software Engineering Resident, AQMed (Hardware Interface)

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors.

We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. 

At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. 

Note: This role is based full time out of our Palo Alto offices

About the Role

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. We are seeking a highly motivated Software Engineering Resident to join the AQMed team. Your mission: to help revolutionize heart health by developing the critical software that powers our next-generation, non-invasive cardiac diagnostic devices. In this role, you will be deeply embedded with our engineering team, taking on hands-on challenges at the intersection of software and physical hardware. If you are passionate about building tangible technology with life-saving impact, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do

• Actively collaborate with the product and engineering teams to design and prototype novel features for our cutting-edge medical devices
• Take ownership of integrating prototyped features into the full medical device software stack, ensuring seamless operation from the Python backend (Tornado/Flask) to the React-based frontend device operators use
• Create clearly-written, tested, scalable, and documented SW solutions
• Take a hands-on role in the lab, supporting the software setup, integration, and debugging on real-world hardware
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers on CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment workflows
• Grow your skills and learn from a world-class, tech-focused team that includes experts in SW engineering, physics, AI, advanced data processing, and medical device products.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate of a M.S., or Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Very strong programming proficiency in a modern programming language, ideally Python.
• Comfortable and experienced with Linux-based systems and the command line.
• Demonstrated experience working on projects that involve the integration of software with physical hardware.
• Authorization to work in the United States.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with frontend development in React, TypeScript and storybooks.
• Familiarity with embedded systems firmware
• Familiarity with building, testing, and deploying applications within a mature software development environment (e.g., using Git, CI/CD, etc.).
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably within AWS
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Previous internship or project experience in the medical software or medical device industry.

Key Competencies & Personal Attributes

• A proactive, self-starter mentality coupled with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and a strong bias for action.
• A high level of intellectual curiosity and a genuine, strong desire to learn continuously.
• Exceptional strategic thinking capabilities combined with a practical, "roll-up-your-sleeves" attitude to ensure execution and get things done effectively.

Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to thrive, adapt, and maintain high performance in a rapidly evolving and sometimes unstructured environment.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is expected to be $100k to $110k per year. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or tra