Convexia

The world's first AI-maximalist pharma company

Founding Engineer

$90K - $200K0.50% - 1.50%San Francisco, CA, US / Remote
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizenship/visa not required
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Ayaan Parikh
Ayaan Parikh
Founder

About the role

As a Founding Engineer at Convexia, you will build the core agentic frameworks and evaluation systems that power our Source → Diligence → Decide product.

Your Role

  • Build and iterate on agentic orchestration frameworks: Develop robust systems for tool calling, routing, memory management, guardrails, provenance tracking, and failure recovery to ensure seamless agent performance.
  • Design evaluation and backtesting harnesses: Create comprehensive tools for our agents and PoS model, including offline replay, regression testing, and confidence calibration to validate and refine system accuracy.
  • Own end-to-end product delivery: Manage the full lifecycle from data ingestion and processing to user experience and system reliability, incorporating tight feedback loops from customers to drive rapid improvements.
  • Enhance system performance and correctness: Tackle challenges with messy, real-world inputs like PDFs, tables, slides, non-English sources, and conflicting evidence to deliver reliable results.
  • Partner with founders on strategy: Collaborate on the product roadmap, customer integrations, and technical direction as we transition from a platform to owning and advancing key assets.

We’re hiring for people that are high-agency and a bit delusional. Specifically, you:

  • You've built and shipped complex backend or ML systems in production, with a bias toward reliability
  • You obsess over evaluation, observability, and failure modes
  • You thrive in ambiguity and move fast without waiting for permission
  • You communicate clearly and take ownership in low-process environments

Other things we like:

  • You've been underestimated before
  • You've been told you're "too intense"
  • You get bored in the absence hard problems
  • Hacker house vibes appeal to you

About Convexia

Convexia is building an AI-maximalist pharma company. We replace months of manual drug asset diligence with automated asset sourcing, in silico scientific evaluation, commercial modeling, and clinical risk analysis. These agents feed into our proprietary PoS model to identify high potential drug assets.

We sell the platform to pharma BD teams, biotech startups, and rare disease clinician teams today. As we become system-integrated with customers, we will begin owning and advancing assets ourselves through key development milestones.

Convexia
Founded:2025
Batch:S25
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Founders
Ayaan Parikh
Ayaan Parikh
Founder
Rahul Vijayan
Rahul Vijayan
Co-Founder & CTO