Senior Software Engineer (Quality Platform)

Senior Software Engineer (Quality Platform) London or Lausanne

We are here to advance human health by reimagining drug discovery with the power and pace of artificial intelligence.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured by better and faster drug discovery.

Our values exist in service of that future. We think theyll help us bring it closer too.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one were building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was founded in 2021 and is led by Sir Demis Hassabis. Our aim is to usher in a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and find cures for some of humanitys devastating diseases.

Our foundations are built on the success of Google DeepMinds AlphaFold but we didnt stop there! We are continuing to develop and implement stateoftheart technologies as we move towards our goal of dramatically accelerating and improving the process of designing and bringing new medicines to patients.

We have built a worldleading drug design engine comprising foundational AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. The company is continually innovating on model architecture and developing cuttingedge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Your impact

As a founding member of the Quality Platform team you will own and develop testing frameworks and tooling. Your work will help enable the wider organisation to run their own high quality tests and benefit from testing insights. You will collaborate with leading ML researchers scientists and engineers to help them do their most performant and trusted work. You will be a key contributor to organisational engineering quality and standards.

What you will do

• Create high quality testing frameworks and tooling across domain spaces in engineering and research via your own clean code.
• Work collaboratively with engineers/researchers across the organisation to align on standards in regards to quality.
• Assist with the development of individual tests as is helpful to teams.
• Communicate engineering/research quality insights and metrics across the organisation.
• Develop tooling to proactively identify concerns before they reach the hands of users.

Skills and qualifications

Essential

• Either a degree in Computer Science Information Science or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience creating and maintaining both individual tests and testing frameworks
• Strong backend coding skills as well as a proficiency in engineering architecture and design
• Experience building automation frameworks and/or test infrastructure from scratch writing and running test scripts in continuous integration manner (CI/CD) and summarising results in the context of the system as a whole
• Experience developing comprehensive test plans thorough test protocols and delivering test reports based on the continuous automated and manual testing signal of the large multicomponent software systems
• Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail that extends beyond written and verbal communication
• At least five years industry work experience as a software engineer in test
• Demonstrated success in delivering high quality testing project impact
• Experience working both independently and as a part of a team environment

Nice to have

• Experience working with scientific tests and in drug discovery
• Familiarity with the Google Cloud Platform
• Experience working in fastpaced startup environments and efficiently working on multiple products simultaneously as test lead or the only test engineer on a complete software system

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. Its not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity creativity and care. It is about good people doing good rigorous and futuremaking science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness but its also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. Its a confidence in our hypothesis as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease wont wait so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. Its knowing that transformation is a group project and remembering that what were doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. Were building an environment where collaboration is fundamental learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences knowledge backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex race religion or belief ethnic or national origin disability age citizenship marital domestic or civil partnership status sexual orientation gender identity pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid working

Its hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday Wednesday and one other day depending on which team youre in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach wed be happy to talk through these if youre selected for an initial screening call.

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