Senior Staff Engineering, IT Compute Engineer

Company Description 

Eikon Therapeutics is a new biopharmaceutical company employing revolutionary technology at the interface of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology to discover novel treatments for life-threatening diseases. Eikon’s discovery platform is built on groundbreaking innovations from its founders (Nobel Prize, 2014), culminating in the creation of microscopes which enable real time, molecular-resolution measurements of protein movement in living cells, thereby unlocking otherwise intractable classes of proteins as drug targets.

Who you are

You are an adventurous, passionate, and creative to apply your talents to empower interdisciplinary scientific exploration, inaugurate a radical drug-discovery paradigm, and ultimately create novel medicines. You are excited to tackle the challenges of providing compute infrastructure for real-time processing of >300TB of data per day.  You will bring to this challenge enthusiasm, high energy, intellectual curiosity, and scientific rigor.

As part of Eikon’s diverse team, you will collaborate with the larger engineering organization to design, develop, deploy, and maintain custom compute systems to process the raw generated by Eikon’s instruments and to analyze that processed data.

What You'll Do

• Develop and maintain Eikon’s engineering compute environment.
• Work closely with the software and automation teams to ensure current and future compute needs are addressed.
• Define the development and production Linux environments used for Eikon’s compute environment and assist in supporting these environments.
• Take responsibility for the design, development, and deployment of any instrument-embedded compute environment.
• Collaborate with Eikon’s cloud compute engineers and Corporate IT to develop a hybrid on-prem/cloud compute environment to enable Eikon to utilize cloud resources for internal efforts, as well as to facilitate providing Eikon’s software stack to future customers/collaborators “as a service”.
• Develop Eikon’s scientific computing environment to support the company’s computational chemistry, biology, and other needs.
• Work collaboratively with engineers and scientists to understand and address tactical needs and create a positive and productive development and analysis environment.
• Contribute to multiple projects simultaneously, developing milestones and deadlines in coordination with the broader company

Qualifications:

• BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 12+ years of combined experience in IT infrastructure, compute solutions, tools development and support, and IT administration.
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying grid and/or cluster compute environments.
• Familiarity with multiple grid, cluster, and cloud compute solutions.
• Experience with real time data processing environments, including GPU, or other accelerated processing.
• Strong Python, Shell programming experience.
• Linux system administration experience required.
• Experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud computing environments.
• Ability to logically and efficiently investigate and solve problems and to develop solutions from prototype development to production designs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Team oriented, flexible, able to adapt to rapidly evolving goals and challenges.
• Adept at balancing multiple projects and competing priorities.

Eikon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment.

In accordance with the Company’s duty to provide and maintain a safe workplace, the Company requires all employees to be Fully Vaccinated with one of the FDA approved COVID-19 vaccines, which includes those vaccines that have received the FDA’s emergency use authorization.  You will be expected to be Fully Vaccinated as of your Start Date.  If you believe that you are exempt from this requirement under an applicable law or regulations, including Americans with Disabilities Act and California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, you will need to contact the Company’s Human Resources group. For purposes of this section, Fully Vaccinated means (i) the completion of the vaccination regimen as approved by the FDA (by way of example, 2 doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and 1 dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine), and (ii) timely receiving booster vaccination, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.