Ploid AI - Founding Engineers
Location: Barcelona, Spain Type: HYBRID (preferably on-site) Employment: Full-time + Equity
We’re building an AI-first bioinformatics platform to empower plant breeders and life science researchers with agentic AI and LLMs. Backed by pre-seed funding and real demand from biotech and seed companies, we’re looking for versatile founding engineers to help us shape the future of AI in genomics.
About the Role
As a Founding Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the technical direction and culture of Ploid AI. You will be involved in all aspects of the development process, from architecture and design to implementation and deployment.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build AI workflows, agentic interfaces, and data pipelines
- Work across the stack: Go, Python, TypeScript
- Contribute to system design, infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Terraform), and devops
- Collaborate closely with scientists and iterate from prototype to product
- Help define our technical culture and roadmap as a core founding member
Nice-to-haves (not all required)
- LLM integration
- RAG systems
- gRPC
- Scientific computing
- Cloud/on-prem hybrid systems
About Us
We’re an early team of engineers and scientists with strong academic and industry backgrounds (ex-BCG, PhD in Plant Biotech, M.Sc. AI). We’re committed to building something impactful, technical, and genuinely useful for life science.
To Apply
Send your application to: hello@ploid.ai
More about us: https://ploid.ai
We also consider internship requests from strong student candidates.
Update
Thank you for all the interest from HN! We covered 2 out of the 3 open positions. We now look for expertise in full-stack development.