> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Software Engineer - Full Stack Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3d2b1c651a50a087 Arcadia Science posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Emeryville, CA, at $160,000–$195,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Build full-stack applications and data infrastructure connecting wet-lab and computational scientists, including internal research tools and the software layer for AutoOpenRaman. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Arcadia Science](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/arcadia-science) Posted Jul 26, 2026 by Arcadia Science · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 **$160,000–$195,000** + equity Emeryville, CA On-site Build full-stack applications and data infrastructure connecting wet-lab and computational scientists, including internal research tools and the software layer for AutoOpenRaman. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F3d2b1c651a50a087&placement=top) - [View posting at Arcadia Science](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcadiascience/jobs/4323485009) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $160K–$195K Below the median Midpoint $178K · median $190K This job $160K to $195K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Emeryville, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Our mission is to turn natural innovations into real-world solutions by developing systematic and quantitative approaches to leveraging biology for therapeutics R&D. We share our research as openly as possible to accelerate discovery and make our work broadly useful. ### The Opportunity Arcadia Science is looking for a software engineer who thrives at the intersection of biology and technology. You'll build the web applications and data infrastructure that connect our wet-lab and computational scientists, turning complex research workflows into intuitive, end-to-end digital experiences. As a member of the engineering team, you'll work across Arcadia's research and product surface: partnering with bench scientists to understand their workflows, shipping internal tools that make those workflows faster and more reliable, and contributing to data infrastructure that underpins how we explore and share results. Part of this role will be dedicated to the Foundry, Arcadia's division at the interface between R&D and commercial deployment, where you'll build the software layer for AutoOpenRaman, an open-source, automated Raman spectrometer we developed for biological research. This includes a scientific user interface purpose-built for bench scientists, and the data pipeline that takes raw spectra to interpretable results. The right person for this role has built products from scratch in fast-moving environments, brings strong product instincts alongside deep technical skills, and is energized by working shoulder-to-shoulder with scientists to understand their problems firsthand. You don't need a biology degree, but you should be genuinely curious about science and eager to learn. This is an onsite role at our Emeryville, California headquarters, where daily proximity to researchers, engineers, and cross-functional partners keeps the feedback loop tight and the work grounded in real scientific need. ### Key Responsibilities - Partner with researchers and product designers to identify high-impact problems, then architect and ship solutions through rapid iteration cycles - Design, develop, and maintain Arcadia's internal product suite using modern web technologies, building for scalability, performance, and a user experience that works for scientists - Build and improve data infrastructure that supports biological research workflows, from ingestion and transformation to exploration and visualization - Design and ship a scientific user interface purpose-built for bench scientists, intuitive sample management, run configuration, live acquisition feedback, and results review. - Build and maintain agentic AI workflows that expand the team's capacity: automating data QC, interpretation, report generation, and other repeatable analytical tasks - Own the full lifecycle of your work: scoping, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance ### Qualifications ### Required - Hands-on experience building products from scratch in fast-moving environments, with a track record of shipping software that non-engineers actually depend on - Experience designing and shipping user interfaces for scientific or technical workflows, with genuine care for the non-engineer end user: clean layout, clear state, graceful error handling - Proficiency in Python and TypeScript; comfortable owning both backend services and frontend applications - Experience building data pipelines for scientific data: ingestion, transformation, QC, and structured storage - Ability to work directly with bench scientists to develop deep empathy for their workflows and translate that understanding into software that fits how they actually work - Deep AI literacy: you actively use AI tools in your own development workflow, you have strong opinions about which tools and approaches work, and you understand the architecture of agentic systems well enough to build and maintain them, not just call an API - Demonstrated experience building with AI: using LLMs, agents, or AI-assisted development tools to meaningfully expand what you can ship and maintain ### Preferred - Experience building software for scientific instruments or laboratory hardware - Background or coursework in evolutionary biology, molecular biology, or bioinformatics - Contributions to open-source scientific software projects ### AI literacy We expect this role to operate as more than an individual contributor. You will build and maintain a team of agents requiring more than familiarity with AI tools: you should be current on the state of coding agents and LLM-assisted development, have opinions on which approaches are production-ready, and be able to make architectural decisions about when to build agentic workflows and when not to. We expect you to stay current as the field moves. ### Compensation Successful applicants can expect to be compensated between $160,000–$195,000 with benefits and a competitive equity offering, depending on experience level. ### Application Process Please submit a resume and fully answer all application questions addressing your interest in and qualifications for the position. The review process will involve in-person interviews and a short, practical work test. Employment offers are contingent on reference and background checks. Arcadia is an equal opportunity workplace; we welcome people from all backgrounds and communities. We provide competitive compensation and practical benefits to keep you happy and healthy so that you can do your best work. 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