Senior Software Engineer, Research

About Us

Alembic applies mathematics and AI developed for identifying causes, treatments, and mortality during the pandemic to tracing the results of marketing initiatives. We provide leading companies a real-time view to optimize all marketing activity and sales funnel movement. We’re backed by leading tech luminaries and innovators including WndrCo, founded by DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jensen Huang, Joe Montana, and many more.

Our journey began when a team of multi-exit startup leaders and friends came together to build cutting edge tech to tap into a generational market opportunity. We share early experience at companies that include Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, WP Engine, WSJ, and Qualcomm. We're growing our team at scale in 2024.

Our Values

• Curiosity

• Data Driven

• Brevity

• Everyone Teaches

• Build stuff and ship it!

• We don't blame. We solve.

• Low Ego

About the Role - Senior Software Engineer, Research 

We’re growing our research team. Currently, we apply mathematics and AI developed for identifying causes, treatments, and mortality during the pandemic to tracing the results of marketing initiatives. Your work will apply advanced terabyte-scale data analytics – from any discipline, art or science – to uncover unique insights that enable us to better serve our clients and their work. 

What you'll do:

• Become the bridge between cutting-edge research and real-world impact. As a Research Engineer, you'll transform research outputs into robust, production-ready code. 

• Craft well-engineered code. Translate research concepts into clean, maintainable, and scalable code using expertise in some backend language expertise. 

• Build at the edges, understand the system. You’ll combine cutting edge research with solid software engineering principles. Understand the architecture choices and their systemic impact. 

• Shepherd the journey. From planning to launch, you'll guide the release, operation, and qualification of your creations. Think documentation, monitoring, and proactive troubleshooting – you'll be the system's champion.

• Continuously evolve. As your creations gain traction, adapt and improve them based on user feedback, changing needs, and the latest tech advancements. We’ll introduce each other to new open-source libraries and possibilities along the way. 

Things that will help you succeed: 

By design, this role thrives in ambiguity. It’s a good fit for someone who pushes boundaries and explores uncharted territories. As a result, there is no ideal candidate profile. There are several skills and attributes that will help you know whether you’ll thrive in this role. For example: 

• 5+ years building software at a high-growth startup or innovative large company. 

• Bonus points if you bring a data science specialty or background. 

• A deep understanding of distributed system designs.

• Experiencing conducting performance testing, optimization, choosing storage infrastructure, and/or designing database schema. 

• Experience with cloud computing, cloud resource management, and capacity planning. 

Who you are: 

• Engineer with a strong sense of ownership. You'll have the freedom to improve/evolve our systems and push the technical boundaries, as well as the responsibility to ensure reliable, stable day-to-day operations.

• Self-taught, lifelong learner: You take great pride in your curiosity, constantly seeking new knowledge in a wide array of fields. 

• Fox, not a hedgehog: While others focus on one big thing, you thrive on exploring broad landscapes. You see connections everywhere, and bring ideas from seemingly different worlds together – think medical science meets marketing, or math meets art. 

• True startup tinkerer: Your heart beats to the rhythm of ideas and execution. You understand that innovation happens when ideas meet execution, and that it takes both of them together to propel tech forward.

• Tech believer: You might feel wonder by the power of technology and its potential to still revolutionize the world.

• One foot in, one foot out: You may have spent time in academia, and understand the value of research, but you also crave innovation and are willing to challenge the status quo.

• Career pathfinder: You seek out challenges that rewrite the career rulebook