Principal Software Engineer Agentic Platform
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Cambridge, MA - USA
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Job Summary
ABOUT PIONEERING INTELLIGENCE
Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneerings legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures harnessing recent advances in AI machine learning and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagships integrated model of science entrepreneurship and capital it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health sustainability and beyond.
The Role
The Pioneering Intelligence group at Flagship Pioneering is building intelligent software systems that integrate agentic AI with scientific reasoning to accelerate discovery and decision-making. At the center of this effort is a new autonomous research platform. It supports autonomous AI systems that reason over complex biological problems.
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own theunderlyingagentic platform: the durableorchestration layer on which long-running multi-agent multi-model scientific workflows run reliably.
This is a hands-on architect role for a senior engineer who has built and operated distributed systems at scale and wants to take agentic AI from research to production. You will set the technical foundation and standards for the platform work shoulder-to-shoulder with AI scientists engineers and domain experts and turn frontier agent patterns into reusable dependable infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Own the agentic platform end to end from research prototype to production building the durable orchestration layer for long-running multi-stage scientific workflows. Architectworkflow orchestration evaluation frameworks and event-driven distributed systems that deliver scale resilience and reliability.
- Define SDK abstractions andAPIcontracts between model and agent outputs and downstream consumers decoupling rapid model iteration from product stability and reducing integration friction across teams.
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code reference implementations (AWS CDK Terraform containerized services) and transform exploratory AI proof-of-concepts into hardened reusable patterns adopted across product domains.
- Own platform cost-efficiency and scalability while preserving the performance and accuracy that our experiments and end users require.
- Explore and template agent design and deployment patterns and set technical standards code quality and architectural direction for the platform.
- Partner across teams (modeling and agent teams product) to align on integration points dependency timelines and delivery and mentor engineers and scientists.
Professional Experience & Qualifications
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science Engineering or a related field with 10 years of professional software development experience.
- Demonstratedtrack recordarchitecting andmaintaininglarge-scale distributed systems in production attechnology companies.
- Deepexpertisein workflow orchestration and event-driven architecture including stateful execution idempotency durable retries and replay.
- Strong cloud-native engineering on AWS with infrastructure-as-code containerization and autoscaling.
- Proven ability to take systems from prototype to hardened observable operationally excellent production.
- Experience designing SDKs APIs and data contracts that serve multiple downstream teams.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build organizational consensus around platform decisions.
- Collaborative and empathetic working style: listens to understand the needs of scientists engineers and downstream teams and leads through influence.
- Proventrack recordsetting technical strategy and direction for a growing engineering organization and mentoring engineers in a fast-moving environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with agentic AI and orchestration frameworks ().
- Experience integrating LLMs and model platforms including Anthropic OpenAI Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock and building evaluation and feedback-loop frameworks for agentic systems.
- Familiarity with sandboxed code executionand agent harness development.
- Experience withLLMobservability and monitoringtooling and cost-governance / FinOps for AI infrastructure.
- Background in scientific domains such as biology chemistry or complex systems (a plus notrequired).
Why Join Us
By joining the Agentic AI team within Flagships Pioneering Intelligence group you will:
- Own the platform foundation for a category-defining autonomous scientific reasoning engine.
- Take frontier agentic AI from research to dependable production at scale.
- Collaborate with visionary thinkers and top-tier researchers across Flagships ecosystem.
- Set the technical standards that the broader platform and product teams build on.
- Shape the future of AI-powered discovery in a role that combines deep engineering excellence with direct human-health impact.
ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING
Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000 Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanitys most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19 curing intractable diseases improving human health preempting illness and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.
Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNEs Change the World list an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Companys annual list of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at.
At Flagship we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively FSP) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneerings internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
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The salary range for this role is $188000 - $257500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors including a candidates qualifications skills competencies and experience. Pioneering Intelligence currently offers healthcare coverage annual incentive program retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Pioneering Intelligences good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.
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