> 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, Scientific Products Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d944765beb4d795d Chai Discovery posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. Build a computational workspace that helps scientists use Chai’s models and agents to design medicines. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Chai Discovery](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chai-discovery) Posted Jun 29, 2025 by Chai Discovery · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Build a computational workspace that helps scientists use Chai’s models and agents to design medicines. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fd944765beb4d795d&placement=top) - [View posting at Chai Discovery](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chaidiscovery/16c7c2b9-1bb4-4bea-84be-2eadf913843f/application) 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 Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs 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**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Tools - **computational workspace** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Eli Lilly, GSK, Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, argenx and Novartis all use Chai to power drug discovery programs. AI is reinventing life sciences the same way it reinvented software engineering, and our team is building that future. We train frontier models that learn the underlying foundations of biochemical structure and interaction. We pair this with a computational workspace to iterate on molecules from idea to medicine, helping scientists move faster and develop medicines beyond the reach of existing methods. We value diverse perspectives and are ready to find greatness in unexpected places. ### About the role Build the computational workspace where scientists use Chai’s models and agents to design medicines. Molecular engineering still needs its own abstractions and product layer. You will help invent this category of software, owning the last mile from model capability to the experiments scientists run and what they learn. - Work directly with scientists and Chai’s model researchers to understand their problems and decide what to build. - Own the work from the first customer conversation through to a product they depend on and appreciate, going as deep into the science, compute, models, research, and software as the problem requires. - Work forward deployed with our customers, ship across the stack, and refine the product and its core abstractions as you learn. ### About you We look for engineers who can make sense of messy real-world problems and build simple solutions end to end. Engineers who have worked in customer-facing roles, shipped substantial products, or worked as former founders are a particularly good fit. Familiarity with the scientific domain is not required. We value technical depth, product judgment, and a record of building things that are meaningful and useful to people. ### We offer The opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology, with world-class people, on a mission that matters. We protect and promote a culture of high velocity and ownership. We compensate our team accordingly. [View posting at Chai Discovery](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chaidiscovery/16c7c2b9-1bb4-4bea-84be-2eadf913843f/application) ## About Chai Discovery Builds AI models and software that help pharmaceutical and life-sciences scientists design new molecules and antibodies for difficult drug-discovery targets. 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