Member of Technical Staff

Nearly all disease will become treatable in our lifetimes. At the same time, drug discovery is quickly becoming an engineering discipline. There has never been a more exciting time for new biotech research to solve humanity's most fundamental problems.

At Mandolin, we're building the "last mile" delivery infrastructure to accelerate this unbounded future of cutting-edge drugs - cell/gene therapies and biologics for Alzheimer's, cancer, schizophrenia, genetic disorders, amongst many others. Reasoning-adept LLMs uniquely unlock the opportunity to bridge this market gap. We're starting with an "AI knowledge worker" for clinics administering these drugs, and then partnering with health insurers and pharma companies to bring drug breakthroughs to market at scale.

Ultimately, our mission is to substantially extend healthy human lifespans by minimizing the time it takes to bring life-changing drugs to patients.

We're a lean, aggressive team of former founders set on building a new generational incumbent in healthcare. We've raised substantial institutional funding from the best healthcare AI investors like SignalFire, Maverick, and ex-Thrive GP Gaurav Ahuja (including first institutional checks into rocketships like Hims&Hers, Ro, Grow Therapy, Cityblock, and Devoted Health).

Mandolin was founded by Will Yin and Rohit Rustagi - Stanford dropouts and second-time exited founders - alongside teammates from Google, Stanford, Genentech, and others.

Why work at Mandolin?

We've found market fit and are building out our founding team very quickly. Reasons to join:

• We have incredible market pull and are already working closely with some of the largest healthcare providers all over the country.
• We're solving a difficult technical problem, which unlocks a massive $30B+ market opportunity and enormous impact once solved.
• You'll get to define the future of the company from the ground floor, alongside a world-class team from Stanford, Google, and Palantir.
• We are building an in-office culture in SF, while still being able to hire the best talent from anywhere. We will offer relocation to accommodate our in-office culture.

Who we're looking for

You'd be a perfect fit for our team if you...

• Are most familiar and comfortable with the 0-to-1 phase. You find it to be your sweet spot.
• Are relentlessly truth-seeking in product and business.
• Are opinionated but considerate.
• You drive toward solving problems at all costs, looking at the bigger picture as well as diving into the details.
• Love building beautiful, complex systems as much as you love moving extremely fast.

What you'll work on

All founding engineers at Mandolin are full-stack generalists, meaning you'll get a chance to work across the entire stack (frontend, backend, AI infrastructure, devops). Given the compound nature of our product, we also tend to form short-lived teams around specific projects. You'll be working closely with our customers and owning complete projects, including:

• Outlining the 0-to-1 of project requirements, goals, and roadmaps from customer problems
• Defining complex agentic architectures in a demanding, highly-regulated industry
• Wrangling a wide variety of cutting-edge agentic AI infrastructure
• Leading end-to-end implementation to deliver fast, high-quality iterations to customers

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production software.
• Strong CS fundamentals and experience with the modern web stack.
• Proficiency with TypeScript and/or Python.
• Extremely excited about building complex agentic AI systems and working with multimodal models.
• Strong intuition for prioritizing between product, business, and technical tradeoffs.
• Experience building 0-to-1 through projects or other startups.

Interview Process

We believe in a thoughtful and transparent hiring process that allows us to get to know each other and ensures a great mutual fit. Here's what you can expect:

1) Introductory Conversation with Our Cofounder

A casual yet in-depth conversation where we'll discuss your background, what you're looking for, and how this role aligns with your goals. This is also an opportunity for you to learn more about our mission, culture, and how we operate.

2) Technical Deep Dive with a Founding Engineer
A discussion focused on your technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and experience. We'll go over real-world challenges related to our domain and explore how you approach complex engineering problems. This will be interactive and conversational rather than a traditional algorithm-heavy coding interview.

3) Multi-Day Work Trial
Instead of a take-home test, we invite you to collaborate with our team on a real problem we're working on. This hands-on experience allows us to see how you think, communicate, and contribute, while giving you firsthand insight into how we work together. The work trial is designed to be flexible and respectful of your time, and we'll compensate you for your contributions.
Throughout the process, we aim for transparency, timely feedback, and an experience that reflects how we actually work. If this sounds like a hiring process you'd enjoy, we'd love to hear from you!

If this sounds awesome, send us a note at hiring@mandolin.com.