Product Engineer

At PicnicHealth were building the future of non-interventional clinical research and centered on patients. Our mission is to make it radically easier faster and more affordable to perform clinical trials and get better treatments to patients. Were replacing the legacy services-heavy model with a modern AI-first approach that unlocks insights from rich multi-modal datafrom clinical notes and imaging to lab resultsat scale. By engaging patients directly through our personal health assistant PicnicAI which meets them where theyre at and delights them along the way (with an industry leading NPS of 76) patients participate actively in the research they care about.

PicnicHealth is already a trusted partner to 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies. Our work spans 40 disease areas and has supported over 60 peer-reviewed publications including an FDA submission that incorporates PicnicHealth data.

Founded in 2014 weve raised $100M from top investors like Amplify Partners Felicis Ventures B Capital Group and Y Combinator. Our business running non-interventional studies more than doubled last year and were growing even faster in 2025. Were a team of doctors patients data nerds engineers and builders reimagining how clinical research works and were just getting started!

The Opportunity

In this role youll help build researchOS our AI-powered operating system for running clinical studies at scale. Youll focus on developing the core engine that automates complex study workflowsfrom initial protocol setup and configuration to ongoing study operations and data management. Research studies are intricate highly regulated and traditionally manual; your work will help transform that reality by creating intelligent systems that dramatically reduce operational overhead and improve study quality. This is an exciting opportunity to build the infrastructure that powers next-generation research by making it faster smarter and more accessible to teams advancing medical discovery.

What Youll Do:

• Build core researchOS capabilities that automate study setup execution and ongoing operationsreducing manual effort and increasing scalability.
• Design and implement intelligent systems that manage complex study protocols data flows and operational workflows end to end.
• Collaborate with product data and research teams to translate scientific and operational requirements into robust extensible platform features.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that make researchOS flexible reliable and ready to support hundreds of concurrent studies.
• Champion engineering excellence driving best practices maintainability and a strong culture of technical rigor and collaboration.

Youll be successful if you:

• Are a builder who knows great software products come from rapid user-focused development
• Have been shipping code in production for 3 years
• Are proficient in React and Typescript
• Build & iterate quickly shipping code to production frequently often daily.
• Integrate AI deeply in all of your workflows for writing code and as a thought partner

Relevant Tech Stack: React Node Typescript GraphQL Postgres

We expect all team members to be amazing in their roles and ultimately to move the PicnicHealth mission forward.

What is clinical research and why will PicnicHealth win

Clinical research is the industry responsible for conducting studies to evaluate the effectiveness of drugs and treatments. Better trials lead to faster more cost-effective drug development ultimately resulting in more and improved treatments for patients. However the process remains highly inefficient. Trials are a major bottleneck in drug development and the promising advancements in biotech cannot translate to real patient impact unless clinical research becomes faster and more efficient.

The industry runs on outdated technology and manual processes. Research sites (hospitals academic centers doctors offices) are overburdened and under-resourced. Contract research organizations (CROs) the organizations that traditionally run clinical trials for life sciences companies typically throw hundreds-of-thousands of man-hours wrangling sites and cobbling together vendor software.

PicnicHealth has built technology that uniquely positions us to run faster cheaper and more flexible studies while removing burden from sites:

• PicnicAI (trained on 350M clinician annotations over 100k patient records) is the only system that can effectively access and structure all participant EMR data trials need
• Our AI health assistant (NPS of 76 in 2024) guides participants through study activities and enables most to be done at home
• Were an integrated solution virtual site CRO and software platform with AI built in from the ground up initially focusing on non-interventional research.

The other perks & benefits you get when you work at PicnicHealth

We pay competitive salaries. Everyone on the team is an owner: all full time employees get competitive equity.

Target Base Salary Range: $150k-$175k

The base salary PicnicHealth offers may vary depending upon the scope complexity and autonomy of the position and on the candidates job-related knowledge skills and experience.

Were a remote first company with teammates spread across the US. We support in-person gatherings including co-working spaces and multi-day onsites to build connections and move forward strategic initiatives. Expect to travel 2-4 times a year. For our team members in the Bay Area who prefer to work in person we can offer a hybrid set up to work from the SF office on a flexible schedule.

You also get:

• Comprehensive benefits including above market Health Dental Vision
• Family friendly environment
• Flexible time off
• 401k plan
• Free PicnicHealth account
• Equipment and internet funds for home office set up
• Wellness Stipend

PicnicHealth is committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value a diverse and balanced team where everyone can belong.