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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 2026. Were a team of doctors patients data nerds engineers and builders reimagining how clinical research works and were just getting started!

The Opportunity

PicnicHealths Platform team builds the infrastructure and developer tools that power our AI-driven clinical research platform. Were looking for engineers who combine strong infrastructure skills with product intuitionpeople who understand that great platform work isnt just about uptime and scale but about accelerating the teams who ship features to patients partners and researchers.

AI is transforming how we build and operate and Platform is at the center of that shift. Youll ensure our infrastructure is ready for agentic workflows help engineering teams adopt AI-assisted development practices and build the foundations that make it all work safely at scale.

Youll own critical systems end-to-end: from Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines to the sandbox environments that let our sales team demo new capabilities. If youre energized by making other engineers more productive while keeping a sharp eye on how your work ultimately impacts users this role is for you.

Our infrastructure runs on GCP (GKE AlloyDB BigQuery Pub/Sub) Terraform and Datadogbut we care more about your ability to learn and ship than checking every box.

Youll be successful if you:

• Have 5 years of practical experience as a fullstack or platform engineer building platform and infrastructure systems. You understand how applications work from the data layer to user experiences
• Have worked in a startup or fast-moving environment and have ideally built products from 0 to 1.
• Take a product-focused approach to platform work you care about building solutions that are robust scalable and easy for other engineers to use. You understand why youre building something not just how.
• Are comfortable diving into any part of the system whether its infrastructure services or product frontends to deliver effective solutions.
• Build & iterate fast especially with AI. Youre hands-on with AI coding tools (Cursor Claude Code or similar) and actively thinking about how to structure codebases and workflows for AI-assisted development.
• You have opinions on how AI agents should interact with production systemsauthentication sandboxing observabilityand youre excited to build that foundation.

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: $180K - $220K

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.