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Staff Software Engineer, Imaging

Insitro · South San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Insitro

At insitro, we are building a different kind of drug company to bring better drugs faster to the patients who can benefit most. Through the power of machine learning (ML) and data at scale, we decode the complexities of biology to unlock transformative new... Backed by SoftBank VF, a16z and GV.

About the role

insitro is a physical AI company dedicated to unlocking causal human biology and accelerating the delivery of better medicines to patients. Our unique Virtual Human™ platform identifies novel, high-impact genetic intervention points, which our TherML™ platform translates into therapeutics—whether small molecules, biologics, or oligos.

What they're looking for

  • • Proven Tenure: 8+ years of professional experience building and operating production-grade software and high-throughput data pipelines, primarily in Python
  • • ML Platform Depth: You have designed, built, and deployed scientific computing pipelines, visualizations, and QC processes for large-scale imaging or similarly high-dimensional datasets
  • • Distributed Systems Stack: Hands-on experience with a Python-first ML stack, distributed compute (e.g., PyTorch/Lightning, Ray, Kubernetes), and workflow orchestration (e.g., Argo, Airflow, or redun)
  • • End-to-End Delivery: A track record of owning complex systems from architecture through production operation
More about this role

insitro is a physical AI company dedicated to unlocking causal human biology and accelerating the delivery of better medicines to patients. Our unique Virtual Human™ platform identifies novel, high-impact genetic intervention points, which our TherML™ platform translates into therapeutics—whether small molecules, biologics, or oligos. With multiple programs in metabolic disease and neuroscience advancing toward the clinic, and our first IND submission slated for the second half of this year, we are at a pivotal inflection point.

As a Staff Software Engineer on our Imaging Software team, you will define and expand our computer vision and ML infrastructure across the full imaging data lifecycle — from on-microscope acquisition to high-throughput ML pipelines. You'll build the platform features that make novel imaging modalities and ML-derived phenotypes integral to our discovery workflows, partnering daily with lab scientists, ML scientists, and our microscopy team to turn research prototypes into validated screening workflows that run reliably at laboratory automation scale. This is a chance to set the technical direction for how imaging, automation, and machine learning converge...

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