Software Developer - Biology

Helical is building the in-silico labs for biology

Drug discovery still relies on wet labs: slow, expensive, and constrained by physical trial-and-error. Helical is changing that.

We build the application layer that makes Bio Foundation Models usable in real-world drug discovery, enabling pharma and biotech teams to run millions of virtual experiments in days, not years. Today, leading global pharma companies already use Helical, and we’re at the start of a highly ambitious growth journey.

We’re a founder-led, talent-dense team building a category-defining company from Europe. We care deeply about the quality of our work, move fast, and expect ownership. If you’re excited by complexity, real responsibility, and shaping how a company actually operates as it scales, you’ll feel at home here.

About the Role

We are looking for aSoftware Developer with a strong background in computational biology or bioinformatics to join our core product development team.

This unique role bridges cutting-edgebiological data science and software engineering, helping bring novel bio foundation models into production and optimize workflows for biological data processing and model execution.

The ideal candidate is passionate about biology, enjoys coding and problem solving at scale, and is eager to collaborate across teams of ML scientists, backend engineers, and biologists.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable pipelines for biological data processing and analysis
• Integrate and optimize Bio Foundation Models for production use, collaborating with ML researchers
• Develop tools and services for data visualization, annotation, and quality control of biological datasets
• Collaborate closely with AI infrastructure and software engineers to improve workflow reliability and scalability
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of backend services and APIs supporting biological workflows