Agentic Platform Team Lead - @Entalpic

Our company: Entalpic

We are a dedicated team at the forefront of AI and chemistry, working to accelerate the energy transition. Our focus is on discovering new chemicals and materials that can lead to more sustainable practices in sectors where the need for change is most urgent. Specifically, we develop a modern generative AI platform to discover new catalysts that optimize chemical reactions, significantly reducing CO2 emissions and thus making a substantial impact on the environment.

As an early-stage AI-driven startup backed by significant funding (>5m), we base our approach on state-of-the-art academic research to drive practical business solutions. We value clear communication and simplicity in our approaches, promoting a constant optimization mindset.

Join Entalpic to be part of a growing team, eager to learn and adapt, united by the belief that our technology can make a significant positive impact and contribute to transforming carbon-intensive industries for a sustainable future.

Co-founders: Mathieu Galtier, Victor Schmidt, Alexandre Duval

Entalpic is dedicated to equal opportunity employment and fosters an environment that is open and respectful of diversity. All applicants are encouraged to apply, even if you don’t meet all above requirements. If you have passion for our mission and believe you can contribute, we want to hear from you.

Reporting & Job Location

You will report to the CTO of Entalpic and will be located in our Paris offices.

Mission Highlights

As the CTO’s trusted partner, you will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between high-level vision and ground-level execution. Your responsibilities encompass two core missions:

1. Technical Leadership: Architect, develop, and maintain our Agentic Platform, ensuring seamless integration of diverse data sources — including simulation outputs and textual data — to support machine learning and LLM applications.

2. Team Management: Lead and mentor a cross-functional team, fostering a collaborative environment that emphasizes innovation, efficiency, and continuous learning. Your leadership will be instrumental in translating strategic objectives into actionable plans and delivering scalable solutions.

This role involves (approximately) 1/3 of management & coordination, 2/3 of hands-on individual contribution (IC).

Role & responsibilities

• Agentic Platform Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend systems for agentic interaction with data (simulation results, patents, papers, internal documents, etc.)

• Technical Leadership: Act as the CTO’s right hand in guiding the technical roadmap, making architecture choices, and structuring reusable agentic and LLM-based systems.

• Team Management: Manage and mentor a growing team (LLM researcher, junior engineer, interns), driving process, feedback culture, and cross-function collaboration.

• Tooling & Infrastructure: Oversee backend quality, API design, and data integration pipelines; support cloud deployment strategies with a DevOps-aware mindset.

• Stakeholder Communication: Work cross-functionally with leadership, data science, and domain experts to align technical efforts with Entalpic’s strategic priorities.

Profile

• Experience: 10+ years in the software/AI industry, including leading teams of 4+ people. Strong track record of shipping technical products in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

• Mindset: Curious, pragmatic, product-oriented & impact-driven. You thrive on autonomy and team play. You like being the glue.

• Technical Depth: Proven experience building robust backend systems in production environments. You’re fluent in Python and at least one other language. You’ve worked on cloud deployments and know how to debug things in production.

• Systems Thinking: You’re comfortable designing architecture from scratch, weighing trade-offs, and enabling the team to explore and select the right tools (e.g., LangChain, RAG stacks, vector DBs).

• Leadership: You’ve managed engineers, structured teams, given feedback, and created a healthy delivery environment. You want to grow people, not just projects.

Bonus:

• You’ve played with LLMs, built small agentic prototypes, contributed to infra for ML or NLP systems, or worked in scientific domains.

Expertise

• Software Architecture & DevOps: Strong foundation in software design principles and patterns. Ability to make architectural decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term scalability. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring tools.

• Backend & Cloud Engineering: Proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language (e.g., Go, Rust, Java). Experience in designing and maintaining scalable backend systems, with a strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP, including infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.

• Data Engineering & Integration: Expertise in building and managing data pipelines that handle diverse data modalities, ensuring data lineage, quality, and integrity. Familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL databases, and experience in integrating data from various sources.

• Leadership & Collaboration: Proven track record of leading engineering teams, mentoring junior developers, and fostering a collaborative team environment. Excellent communication skills to effectively liaise with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• LLM & Agentic Systems: Hands-on experience with large language models and agentic frameworks. Familiarity with tools like LangChain, RAG pipelines, and vector databases, and understanding of how to integrate LLMs into applications effectively.

Compensation & benefits

We are a no-nonsense startup, where we favor a sustainable culture promoting work-life balance and good compensation over foosball tables and free food. We offer:

• A competitive salary

• Equity (BSPCE), to reflect the value you bring to Entalpic and to foster a shared journey

• Comprehensive health insurance (Alan blue)

• French level paid leave and time-off work

• Dynamic work setting. Although our preference is for in-person collaboration, we will be flexible with occasional remote work arrangements.

• and more to come as we grow