Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer at Octozi

Location: New York City (Hybrid)
Compensation: $200K - $225K + 0.5% - 1.5% equity
Experience: 5+ years (some sources cite 7+ years)

About Octozi:

Octozi is a revenue-generating seed-stage company building AI agents for clinical development workflows. Bringing a drug to market can take a decade and cost up to $2B, keeping treatments expensive and delaying life-saving therapies for the patients who need them. We're cutting the cost and time of these workflows while improving the science and analysis of clinical data.

Octozi specializes in leveraging generative AI to streamline clinical development workflows within pharma and biotechnology. The platform offers solutions for real-time data cleaning, regulatory submission automation, and quality control. Octozi's agent-based system allows each agent to reason and act on its own to handle specific data tasks or decisions, but all agents remain centrally orchestrated to ensure coherence, adaptability, and efficiency across complex workflows.

We already have commercial contracts with multiple pharma companies and are scaling the team to meet demand.

The Role:

First engineering hire outside the founding team. Own architecture, data integrations, and the evaluation infrastructure for our hybrid LLM + heuristics platform — with a clear path into Head of Engineering as we scale.

The interesting problems span agent orchestration over messy clinical datasets, human-in-the-loop review at scale, and turning unstructured medical reasoning into auditable, regulator-ready output.

Requirements:

• Full-stack engineer with startup experience strongly preferred
• 5+ years of production engineering experience
• Strong in Python and TypeScript
• Experience with AI/agent systems
• Comfortable owning architecture and evaluation infrastructure
• Authorized to work in the US (no visa sponsorship)

Stack: Python, TypeScript, AWS, PyTorch.

Apply: careers@octozi.com (mention HN) or via the Wellfound role page (Octozi's careers page links directly to this Wellfound listing as the application path).