full stack engineer and scientific software
Job Description
Full-Stack Software Engineer — NYC (Remote possible for the right person)
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Ninety percent of scientific experiments never make it to publication.
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Failed runs. Abandoned hypotheses. Routine characterization data that lives in a researcher's head and three scattered notebooks. Decades of it, sitting in drawers, teaching nobody anything.
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My client is a Y Combinator–backed startup that decided to go get it.
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They capture that lost experimental data at the source, structure it into a queryable lab brain, and use it to help researchers discover the materials that will power the next industrial revolution. They're already working hands-on with their first cohort of university lab partners.
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They're hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer to build the next-generation electronic lab notebook and research platform.
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What makes this different from every other full stack role in your inbox:
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- You work directly with the founders. The team is tiny. Everyone ships product and talks to researchers.
- You build it, then you watch actual scientists use it, then you make it better. Feedback in days, not quarters.
- The roadmap is genuinely interesting — experiment planning, lab inventory, Jupyter-integrated data analysis, digitizing handwritten lab notebooks into structured records, and eventually spectroscopy analysis and chemistry-specific tooling.
- $160,000 – $180,000 base, plus a real equity stake of 0.10% – 0.25%. You own a piece of what you build.
- New York City office. Remote is open for the right person.
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What they're looking for:
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- 3+ years shipping production web applications end to end
- Strong with React / Next.js, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS
- You've built products from scratch on a small, fast-moving team, worked independently, and biased toward speed
- Background at an AI-for-science company, a tech company, or a startup
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Nice to have: mobile development, AI-powered applications, scientific software, or developer tools experience.
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US work authorization required. This client is not sponsoring for this role.
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Here's who I think actually wins this job: an engineer who started in science and moved into software. Chemistry, physics, materials, biology — you did the labs, you kept the notebooks, you know exactly how broken the tooling is. For you, this isn't a job posting. It's the thing you wish someone had built for you.
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If that's you, or you know that person, let's talk.
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Enrique Luis Lambrano III
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Founder | AI Talent Strategist
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Tenzor AI Talent
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(919) 985.6996 | elambrano@tenzortalent.com