Founding Engineer

Ploid AI is building an AI-first bioinformatics platform to empower plant breeders and life science researchers with agentic AI and LLMs. We are backed by pre-seed funding and real demand from biotech and seed companies, and we’re looking for versatile founding engineers to help shape the future of AI in genomics. This is a unique opportunity to be a core founding member and contribute to every aspect of our technical product.

Key Responsibilities: • Architect and build AI workflows, agentic interfaces, and data pipelines • Work across the stack using Go, Python, and TypeScript • Contribute to system design, infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform), and DevOps • Collaborate closely with scientists to iterate from prototype to product • Help define our technical culture and roadmap

Nice-to-have Skills: LLM integration, RAG systems, gRPC, scientific computing, cloud/on-prem hybrid systems

About Us: Ploid AI is an early-stage startup with a team of experienced engineers and scientists. We have strong backgrounds in plant biotech, AI, and industry consulting (ex-BCG). We are committed to building something impactful, technical, and genuinely useful for life science. Our platform offers agentic AI for biology research, accelerating everything from parental selection to genomic prediction.

This role comes with full-time employment, equity opportunities, and a hybrid work model (preferably on-site).