--- title: 'Applied AI Engineer, Life Sciences at Synthio Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/applied-ai-engineer-life-sciences-synthio-labs-india-graqf4ayd5fq' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-16' --- # Applied AI Engineer, Life Sciences at Synthio Labs - **Company:** Synthio Labs - **Location:** India - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/synthio-labs/am9icG9zdDpRG9QAd8I5YRavhXoIcM_w ## Job description ## About the Role Synthio is looking for an Applied AI Engineer who combines strong AI engineering skills with a deep understanding of life sciences. Prior experience working directly with pharmaceutical companies, pharma teams, or life sciences products is required. You will build AI systems across HCP, patient, medical, and commercial workflows, working on problems where scientific accuracy, reliability, and domain context matter ## What You’ll Do - Build production-grade applications using LLMs, retrieval, agents, structured data, and multimodal AI. - Design AI workflows across pharmaceutical commercial, medical, and patient use cases. - Build retrieval and knowledge systems over scientific, medical, and enterprise data. - Develop evaluation frameworks for accuracy, reliability, safety, and domain-specific failure modes. - Work with pharma datasets including CRM, claims, sales, HCP, patient, clinical, and scientific data. - Prototype quickly, evaluate approaches rigorously, and productionize what works. - Work directly with domain experts and customers to translate complex workflows into technical solutions ## What We’re Looking For - 3+ years of experience in AI/ML, applied machine learning, or software engineering. - Strong Python skills and experience building production AI systems. - Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, retrieval, agentic workflows, or related applied AI systems. - Prior experience working directly with pharmaceutical companies, pharma teams, or life sciences products. - Strong fundamentals in experimentation, evaluation, and debugging AI systems. - Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. - High ownership and comfort solving ambiguous problems. ## Why This Role Matters At Synthio, we build software that directly supports patients, physicians, and pharma teams. This is production software, not prototypes or demos. The systems you build will be used in real workflows, under real constraints, and at real scale. You’ll have meaningful ownership and a clear line of sight from your code to real-world impact. Strong Plus - Pharma commercial, medical affairs, patient services, clinical, or market access experience. - Experience with healthcare datasets, scientific literature, or medical knowledge systems. - Experience with voice AI, speech systems, or regulated AI deployments ## About Synthio Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Synthio Labs builds an agentic AI platform for life sciences, enabling compliant, empathetic engagement between pharmaceutical companies and their HCPs and patients. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, Y Combinator-backed) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Supreet Deshpande (CEO), Rajashekar Vasantha (CTO), Sahitya Sridhar (Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences / Healthcare AI, Pharmaceutical Commercial Operations - **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise pharma GTM teams (Medical Affairs, Commercial, Patient Support, Field Teams) - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Reimagine how pharma engages with its most important stakeholders – physicians and patients” by delivering an always-on AI medical expert that provides compliant, accurate, and science-first engagement. ## Products & Services - **Jarvis**: Voice AI copilot for field teams (SaaS) - **Ather**: Voice AI agents for HCP engagement (SaaS) - **Helix**: Voice AI agents for patient support (SaaS) - **Simulation Studio**: AI digital twins for market research (SaaS) - **Polaris HQ**: Natural language interface to query internal data (“Talk to your data”) (SaaS) - **Atlas**: AI-Ready HCP 360 – unified customer view (SaaS) All products are multimodal (voice, chat, video) and purpose-built for regulated healthcare workflows. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: $5M total funding (Seed rounds, latest in November 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Elevation Capital (lead), Y Combinator, and other seed investors; integrations with Veeva, Salesforce, MedInfo systems - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 866.7% YoY (26–29 employees as of mid-2026); 5,000 patients engaged in first 48 hours for a launch campaign; strong starter kit uptake and adherence lift. ## Competitive Advantages - **Purpose-built for regulated healthcare**: Every response is grounded in approved label content, with automated verification and adverse event escalation built in. - **Clinical reasoning engine**: Benchmarked on USMLE-style evaluations; delivers precise medical understanding and empathetic conversations. - **System of Context**: Creates a holistic customer-journey map across the entire engagement ecosystem, syncing with Veeva, Salesforce, and enterprise CRMs. - **Founding team expertise**: Ex-McKinsey, ex-ZS, and AI researchers from Amazon; combined 25+ years in life sciences and frontier LLM building. ## Strategic Focus - Expand the agentic AI platform to cover more pharma workflows (field, HCP, patient, marketing, commercial ops). - Deepen compliance and safety features to maintain trust with regulators and pharma partners. - Scale headcount rapidly (current 26–29, high growth trajectory) with an emphasis on engineering, AI, and forward-deployed roles. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Fast, agile, high growth” – Y Combinator startup with ownership mentality; employees are encouraged to fill gaps, challenge decisions, and push projects forward without waiting for permission. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Primarily San Francisco office with remote roles available (some roles listed as remote). - **AI-first environment**: Everyone uses AI as a “second brain” – from coding to docs to debugging; AI is treated as a teammate. - **Impact**: Work directly on products that help patients navigate care and doctors make better decisions, with a focus on safety and empathy. - **Perks**: Autonomy, responsibility, hands-on experience with frontier AI tools; exposure to top pharma clients and real-world deployment. ## Sources 1. [synthiolabs.com/careers](https://synthiolabs.com/careers) 2. [synthiolabs.com](https://synthiolabs.com/) 3. [linkedin.com/company/synthiolabs](https://linkedin.com/company/synthiolabs) 4. 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