Founding Product Engineer

About the job

https://seal.run/careers/full-stack

Since the 1990s, we've been promised a bio-revolution. Cell therapies that reprogram immune systems to hunt cancer, and gene therapies that make the blind see. But the bottleneck isn't discovery; it's the brutal, decade-long journey from the lab to the patient. We are building the operating system to destroy that bottleneck.

To be clear: this is not a drug discovery sandbox. Our software governs GxP data, automates complex clinical workflows, and produces the verifiable audit trails regulators require. Our users are manufacturing real, physical therapies that save lives, and they run their production on our code. The stakes are real, and we need serious, hardcore engineers to build the infrastructure they rely on. You can read our full mission here.

You will own critical parts of this platform: the automation engine, AI interfaces, and the low-level data primitives that underpin everything. Building a true platform rather than a fixed product is a profoundly difficult engineering challenge. Every feature requires an extra layer of abstraction to allow for infinite customizability.

The platform is written in TypeScript and built from the ground up for AI. It functions almost like a developer platform for our customers. Everything is version-controlled, and configurations are grouped into "change sets" that act exactly like pull requests for scientific processes. This strict, code-like architecture is what makes AI uniquely powerful on Seal. Right now, our primary AI use case is acting as a hyper-competent co-pilot that makes it radically fast for users to compose, deploy, and continuously evolve their own custom operating systems within Seal. Our next frontier is putting AI directly into the runtime workflow. Giving scientists intelligent agents that can reason over the vast amounts of proprietary data the operating system captures to make decisions, flag risks, and accelerate production.