Eikon Therapeutics · 6 hours ago
Principal Engineer, Software - Image Analysis
Millbrae, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$230K/yr - $252K/yr
8+ years expEikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. The Principal Engineer for Analysis Software will design and support computational pipelines for analyzing proprietary microscopy data while collaborating with various teams to align technical goals with business objectives.
BiotechnologyHealth CareLife ScienceMedical
Responsibilities
Build reliable, flexible data processing and data storage architecture to organize biological and microscopy datasets and extract features from Eikon’s proprietary data
Work with data lakes and data pipelines to organize, clean, and serve scientific data for diverse use cases
Maintain essential computational pipelines for ongoing scientific research
Define and evolve the engineering system architecture vision to support system features and user-facing capabilities
Lead a small team as technical lead
Characterize and communicate design trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences
Collaborate with Product and Program Management to develop high-level roadmaps for key software deliverables satisfying defined system-level business needs and user acceptance tests
Stay up to date with emerging trends and advancements in machine learning, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and software engineering practices, and evaluate their potential impact on our internal products
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree with 15 years of relevant experience or a master's degree with 12 years of relevant experience or a PhD with 8 years of relevant experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
Prior experience building and supporting reliable production systems, in Databricks or a similar platform
Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, Postgres and Python
Experience in multiple strongly typed languages such as C++, C# or Java
Successful track record designing software and systems architecture, including API and database design, commercial application development, cloud services, and DevOps practices
Experience with architecting and building analysis software in the biotech field
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to bridge the gap between scientific users and engineers and developers
Team-oriented, flexible, able to adapt to rapidly evolving goals and challenges
Demonstrated leadership skills in a changing organization with evolving processes
Benefits
401k plan with company matching
Medical (premiums covered by Eikon at 95%), dental and vision insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%)
Mental health and wellness benefits
Weeklong summer and winter holiday shutdowns
Generous paid time off and holiday policies
Life/AD&D Insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%) and optional supplemental employee-paid life/AD&D policies
Enhanced parental leave benefit
Daily subsidized lunch program when on-site
Company
Eikon Therapeutics
Eikon Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops live-cell resolution microscopy and engineering for drug discovery.
201-500 employees
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2025 (10)
2024 (19)
2023 (7)
2022 (3)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.12BKey Investors
The Column Group
2025-02-26Series D· $350.7M
2023-06-01Series C· $106M
2022-01-06Series B· $518M
Leadership Team
Roger Perlmutter
Chairman, President, and CEO
Michael Klobuchar
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
General Catalyst
2025-12-26
2025-12-02
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