Member of Technical Staff – Product Engineering
About the role
About the role
We’re looking for a Product Engineer to help build and scale the core product experiences of Phylo’s AI agent platform. This is a highly versatile, full-stack role with a frontend lean, focused on turning cutting-edge agentic research into fast, reliable, and delightful products used by real scientists.
You’ll own product features end-to-end — from UI and interaction design to backend APIs, billing, authentication, and integrations — and work closely with AI researchers, scientists, and infrastructure engineers to ship production-grade systems quickly without sacrificing quality.
This role is deeply interdisciplinary. You’ll spend a lot of time listening, asking questions, and translating between scientists, product, engineering, and AI research. We are an AI-native engineering team: we use coding agents heavily, move fast, and hold a very high bar for engineering excellence.
What You’ll Work On
- Build and own full-stack product features across the Phylo platform, from user-facing UI to backend services.
- Design and implement frontend-heavy experiences for interacting with AI agents, workflows, and scientific tools.
- Own critical product surfaces such as billing, usage tracking, authentication, permissions, and account management.
- Collaborate closely with scientists, AI researchers, and engineers to translate capabilities into intuitive, production-ready product features.
- Ship quickly, iterate based on feedback, and continuously raise the bar on product quality, reliability, and performance.
About Phylo
Phylo is an applied research lab building agentic intelligence to accelerate discovery for every biomedical scientist. Founded by Stanford PhD researchers who built the first biology agent (CRISPR-GPT) and the first general-purpose biomedical agent (Biomni), Phylo is pioneering the next generation of AI systems for the life sciences.
The company believes AI agents will fundamentally transform how biomedical research is done, enabling faster and more systematic scientific progress. Phylo's platform is already used by thousands of organizations globally, including ~20 enterprise accounts across top-20 pharma and large biotech companies, with scientists like Feng Zhang actively utilizing the system.
Backed by a $13.5M seed round led by a16z, Menlo Ventures, and Anthropic, and advised by Nobel Prize laureates and pioneering biologists including Feng Zhang, Caroline Bartoszek, and Fabian Theis, Phylo brings together world-class researchers and engineers across AI and biology. Scientific co-founders include Yuri Leskovec and Le Cong, pioneers in AI and CRISPR respectively.
Phylo operates with a culture of excellence and speed — the team moves fast, thinks big, and supports each other. As an early-stage company with a flat organizational structure, every team member has outsized impact on the product and mission to 100X biomedical discoveries through AI.
Required skills
Job details
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000
Location
South San Francisco, United States
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$13.5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Kexin Huang
Founder
Yuanhao Qu
Founder
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.