Senior Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Title: Senior Software Engineer

• Location: Remote (Rockville, MD)

• Contract: 12+ months

Description

Client is building AI agents that turn curated pharmaceutical supply chain data into analyst-ready outputs, including drug case study decks, account email drafts, and interactive data lookups. The goal is to make the tools reliable, secure, and self-service across the organization. You’ll own the end-to-end engineering path from the data layer through the agent backend, the web app, hosting, sign-on, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design module boundaries and contracts across multiple teams’ codebases

• Set front-end architecture and decide whether to migrate frameworks

• Design multi-user hosting architecture for scaling, isolation, high availability, and cost

• Define evaluation, guardrails, and prompt-injection defenses for agentic systems

• Lead threat modeling, security reviews, and auditability design

• Own the platform roadmap, mentor others, and set engineering standards

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of experience, including technical lead or architect experience

• Performance tuning of Spark on large datasets; data contract design

• Pharmaceutical/life sciences/supply-chain domain experience (e.g., NDCs, API manufacturers, drug shortages)

• Experience in regulated environments (audit trails, validation, change control; 21 CFR Part 11 awareness)

• Headless browser automation with Playwright and document generation (HTML-to-PDF, PPTX)

• Experience with Ansible and CI/CD (Bitbucket Pipelines or Jenkins), plus nginx

• Experience with Kedro (or similar) data pipeline frameworks and MLflow

• Experience with agent orchestration patterns (tool calling, bounded loops, LLM-as-judge review)

Benefits

Build and ship AI agent capabilities used by teams across the organization.