Tech Lead Manager - Full Stack

At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease. We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform:

🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity.

🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously.

This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things.

• We're a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We're collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting!

• As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other.

• Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don't mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.

• Own the architecture and implementation of full-stack systems end-to-end — writing code daily and being in the critical path on the hardest problems, not delegating them.

• Design and implement user experiences that spark joy in our customers.

• Build kick-ass internal tools to allow us to build, support and scale our robotic fleet across multiple customer deployments.

• Set the technical direction and quality bar for full-stack engineering, and make the hard tradeoff calls on design, scope, and prioritization.

• Grow a small team of talented full-stack engineers — hiring, mentoring, and unblocking them as a force multiplier alongside your own technical work.

• Deep proficiency with Python and the ability to rapidly implement and iterate on ideas.

• Experience building interactive front-ends with React or similar.

• Experience with TypeScript.

• Understanding of programming for the web (HTML, CSS, JS, HTTP, REST).

• Significant backend system design and implementation experience.

• A track record of being the engineer your team relies on to ship the hardest things.

• Willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope.

• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and you may have competing priorities or deadlines.

• Passion for learning and expanding your skillset.

• Experience leading or mentoring software engineers — and a desire to keep doing that while remaining hands-on technically.

• Experience with database technologies like Postgres and Redis.

• Interest and experience in robotics, machine learning, or computer vision (bonus points for past experience working with hardware).