Hiring: Senior Software Engineer, X-Scientist Company: Xaira Therapeutics Location: San Francisco Bay Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 22:22:31 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, Python, TestNG About the job Required Skills: •Xaira is pioneering an AI-native approach to discovering and developing the next generation of life-changing medicines. We are building predictive and agentic AI systems across drug discovery, and the X-Scientist team accelerates this mission by making AI-assisted science reliable, usable, and scalable across drug discovery workflows. •On the X-Scientist team, you will work at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and therapeutic discovery. You will collaborate closely with AI scientists, engineers, platform teams, and drug discovery experts to build systems that connect AI models, biological tools, datasets, and scientific workflows. •This role spans backend systems, APIs, tool-calling infrastructure, workflow orchestration, developer-facing SDKs and CLIs, and agentic interfaces that help scientists run analyses, inspect intermediate steps, and iterate on results. •Backend systems and APIs that connect AI models to scientific tools, datasets, and analysis workflows •Tool-calling infrastructure, CLIs, SDKs, and workflow runners that scientists and ML researchers use day-to-day •Agentic interfaces where users can run analyses, inspect intermediate steps, and iterate on results Qualifications: •Background or interest in computational biology, bioinformatics, protein design, single-cell genomics, biomedical AI, or adjacent domains. •Operational familiarity with biomedical databases or tools such as PubMed, UniProt, AlphaFold, PDB, DepMap, or related resources. •Curiosity about biology and scientific research; you do not need a biology background, but you should be excited to learn the domain and work closely with scientists and ML researchers. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!