Principal Engineer

At BenevolentAI, we harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and human expertise to revolutionize the field of drug discovery. Our unique computational R&D platform, combined with our in-house pipeline of drug programmes, enables us to develop new and more effective medicines. With offices in London and a state-of-the-art research facility in Cambridge (UK), we have cultivated a diverse team of professionals from various scientific, technological, and business backgrounds. Our team is united by a shared passion for making a meaningful impact on healthcare through innovation and collaboration.

We are looking for an talented and versatile Staff Engineer to join our Product and Technology organisation. Your experience and skills will be used in high impact projects helping set technical direction, including in initial design, development or in accelerating delivery of teams. This will be a key individual contributor role working closely with our VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer.

The Role:

• You will join the team as part of the Product and Technology organisation, working across squads as projects require it.
• You will be responsible for leading or facilitating the design of technical solutions for projects you are involved with.
• You will be versatile and play multiple roles as the situation demands, from software development, cloud engineering, through to more systems design, depending on your knowledge.
• You will collaborate with team members, helping to provide guidance and mentorship.
• You may also be required to lead and implement projects as an individual.
• You will collaborate with peers in senior architectural positions to help design a joined up end to end platform, deploying engineering best practices and encouraging other to do so.
• You will play the role of 'glue' across teams, doing the needed, but often invisible, tasks to keep the team moving forward and shipping its work.

We are looking for:

• At least 8 years of professional engineering experience as an individual contributor, with at least 2 years as a staff engineer
• Extensive experience in systems design of big data ETL pipelines using cloud based architectures such as AWS, GCP
• Is able to translate product and sales requirements into a technical roadmap
• Leads the creation of technology improvements that improve the quality of the products in their area of concern
• Experience in mentoring more junior members of the team
• Able to critically evaluate a number of solutions to determine quantitatively the best paths forward using experience and knowledge
• Is able to help others in teams ship their projects providing guidance on solutions that may offer improvements in areas such as effectives, efficiency or velocity to deliver
• Is able to ship an individual project they own with little guidance beyond project requirements
• Communication to a range of stakeholders - from junior engineers to non-technical domain experts from, for instance, the scientific domain in which we deliver our products!