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Argon AI · 2 months ago

Head of Engineering

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityDirector/Executive
money$200K/yr - $350K/yr
date8+ years exp

Argon AI is on a mission to transform how life-changing therapies are brought to patients by building an AI operating system for biopharma companies. The Head of Engineering will lead the engineering culture and design robust platforms to accelerate the delivery of life-saving therapies, with a focus on high ownership, technical challenges, and hands-on leadership.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)B2BBiotechnologyEnterprise SoftwareTherapeutics

Responsibilities

Help set our engineering culture and systems to minimize time to ship and time spent revisiting code
Design, code, and spin up systems and new architectures while shaping our organization and how we operate as a team

Qualification

Software engineering experienceEngineering velocity managementDistributed systems shippingModern typed backendsAWSKubernetesDatabaseData modelingCI/CDObservabilityHyper-communicationCode quality focusProduct sense

Required

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with hands on coding experience in your most recent role
Prior roles such as Principal/Staff/Senior Engineer, Tech Lead/Tech Lead Manager, Engineering Manager (hands-on), or Head of Engineering at Series B - FAANG companies
Proven owner of engineering velocity and SDLC: you run lightweight planning/retros, track lead time/MTTR/change failure rate, drive multiple projects in parallel, keep tight loops with Product/Design/Ops—and raise the bar on code quality, testing, reviews, and release discipline without slowing flow
Reliability at speed: deep experience with asynchronous patterns (queues, DLQs, idempotency, backoff/retry, replay, concurrency/eventual consistency), plus pragmatic CI/CD, observability (tracing/metrics/logging), SLOs/alerting, incident response, infra-as-code, and solid security basics
Track record of shipping distributed systems at high-growth teams; you've made pragmatic, opinionated platform calls that improved developer speed and product reliability
Deep experience with modern typed backends (one or more of: Node/TypeScript, Python, Go), PostgreSQL, and building asynchronous workflows with concurrency and eventual consistency
Fluency with AWS and Kubernetes (SQS/SNS, S3, IAM, VPC) and systems-level concerns (observability, CI/CD, reliability engineering, security basics)
Strong database and data modeling instincts; you've tuned queries, managed migrations, and built for correctness and performance
Hyper-communicative and detail-oriented; you write clearly, plan carefully, and keep stakeholders aligned without process bloat
Care deeply about code quality and developer ergonomics; you set standards and hold the line through reviews, tooling, and mentorship

Preferred

Experience with React/Next.js and building intuitive, high-quality UIs
AI-native product experience: prompt engineering, LLM orchestration, retrieval/re-ranking, evaluation frameworks
Product sense and user empathy; you balance shipping fast with building the right abstractions and great UX
Data and pipeline experience (ingestion, indexing, ETL/ELT, streaming)
Prior Head of Engineering/Tech Lead Manager experience; ex-founder or founding engineer background

Benefits

1%-5% equity

Company

Argon AI

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Argon AI: Automating life sciences activities in clinical and commercial settings.
dateFounded in 2023
location
New York, New York, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://www.argon-ai.com

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$11.52M
Key Investors
Y Combinator
2025-07-02Seed· $5.5M
2024-06-13Seed· $5.51M
2024-04-03Pre Seed· $0.5M

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