Frontend Software Engineer

About Collate

Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences. We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life‑saving innovations to patients years faster. Collate is an end‑to‑end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.

We’re an elite team with $125M in funding from top investors, including Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, and Y Combinator. This is a rare chance to join an early‑stage company with world‑changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute  CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator and founder of nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific.

Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever. Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, Airbnb, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.

We’re looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to define how people experience Collate. The work you do will translate cutting‑edge AI into tools that feel simple, reliable, and human—even in the complex world of healthcare. From the very beginning, your fingerprints will be on the product experiences that doctors, patients, and researchers depend on.

Collate is a frontend‑heavy enterprise workflow application that is AI native. Customers need to trust the data we present to them, and that means providing a high‑quality, clear, and reliable interface to that data. You’ll be designing the layer where life‑changing technology meets real people, in moments that matter to real patient outcomes.

We use modern Type Script, React, and Tailwind CSS for frontend development, and Next.js for progressive application rendering on the server and client. AI & ML code is written in Python, and Go is used for scalable web backend services.

• Build responsive, performant web applications that make complex AI‑driven healthcare data simple, accessible and usable.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and backend engineers to bring ideas from concept to production. Own your testing, release, and monitoring of software in production.
• Create reusable components and frontend infrastructure that scales with the team and product.
• Obsess over details of interaction (create delight), accessibility (all people need access), and performance (if it’s slow, it’s a no‑go) to deliver seamless user experiences.
• Shape the look, feel, and usability of Collate’s products at a formative stage in the company’s journey. High‑quality products need equally high‑quality interfaces.
• Partner with backend and ML teams to integrate APIs and models into smooth and information‑rich interfaces for customers.

Impact:
Build systems and experiences that touch real patients and providers, improving healthcare outcomes.

Ownership:
Shape both our product experience and our engineering culture from the start.

Learning:
Collaborate with a uniquely interdisciplinary team—AI researchers, healthcare leaders, and experienced startup builders.

Upside:
Join a company early enough to have meaningful equity and career‑defining impact.

The base salary range for this role is $150,000–$350,000 USD annually, depending on experience and level (Tier 1, San Francisco).

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.