Locations · Boston, MA
YuSMP Group builds custom software, MVPs, and AI/ML integrations for Boston biotech, healthtech, MIT and Harvard spin-outs, and B2B SaaS founders through senior EU nearshore teams. HIPAA Business Associate Agreements signed, IEC 62304 documentation produced, four hours of daily Eastern-Time overlap, dedicated teams from 12,000 EUR per month. The engineering capacity Kendall Square cannot hire fast enough.
Boston in 2026 is unlike any other US tech market because its centre of gravity is not consumer SaaS or pure-play AdTech — it is the dense interlock of MIT, Harvard, Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber, Broad Institute, Moderna, and the 70-plus biotechs along the Kendall Square / Seaport / Watertown corridor. Boston produced more biotech IPOs in 2024 and 2025 than any other US metro. Healthtech SaaS raised over 6 billion USD across 2024 and 2025 in Massachusetts. The applied AI scene around Kendall Square — clinical-decision-support, drug-discovery copilots, lab-automation software — is one of the few non-Bay-Area concentrations of foundation-model fluency in the country. The constraint is universal: software engineering capacity. Boston competes with the Bay Area, Seattle, and NYC for the same senior backend and ML engineers and frequently loses on comp. Time-to-hire for a senior full-stack engineer with healthcare compliance experience runs 110 days. We are not a replacement for the senior staff engineer your spin-out needs in the room with the founders; we are the four engineers around that one staff engineer, available next month instead of next year, contracted through a German GmbH, with HIPAA and IEC 62304 fluency already in the team.
Production systems for biotech, healthtech, and life-sciences SaaS: clinical-trial platforms, lab-automation tools, EHR integrations (FHIR R4/R5, HL7 v2), patient-facing portals. Python, TypeScript, Postgres, FHIR-native data layers.
From 25,000 EUR and 6 to 10 weeks to a fundable demo. Kendall Square spin-outs going from research notebook to a productionised demo for the seed round or the first hospital pilot conversation.
2 to 12-engineer squads embedded in your Jira, GitHub, Linear, Slack. Same team for 12+ months, no rotations. HIPAA-trained engineers, BAA signed at contract. From 12,000 EUR per month per pair.
Claude 4.6, GPT-4o, o3, Llama 4, and open-source domain models for clinical decision support, drug-discovery copilots, lab-result summarisation, EHR document understanding. RAG over de-identified clinical corpora, eval harnesses, SOC 2 + HIPAA-aligned LLM gateways.
HIPAA-eligible AWS and GCP architectures, dedicated tenancy where required, BAA-aware service catalogue, Terraform, EKS, RDS Postgres with pgaudit, encrypted backups, audit-friendly CI/CD.
HIPAA controls, SOC 2 Type I/II, IEC 62304 software lifecycle documentation, 21 CFR Part 11 evidence, GxP-aligned change management, Mass-General-Brigham-friendly vendor security questionnaires answered correctly first time.
A senior engineer in Cambridge or the Seaport in 2026 earns 170k to 230k USD base, 230k to 310k USD fully loaded with equity, benefits, payroll taxes, Massachusetts state unemployment, 401k, healthcare, and an allocated share of Kendall Square real estate (which has now caught New York on per-square-foot rent for prime lab-adjacent office). Time-to-hire is 78 days through an in-house recruiter, 100+ days through a Boston technical agency. You compete with HubSpot, Akamai, Wayfair, DraftKings Boston, and a dozen well-funded Cambridge AI labs that pay Bay-Area-equivalent comp to keep ML talent local. Voluntary attrition for senior healthtech engineers in Boston ran at 16 percent in 2025.
Our senior EU engineers bill 65 to 95 EUR per hour all-in. A four-person dedicated team is 12,000 to 22,000 EUR per month (155k to 280k USD per year), versus 920k to 1,240k USD per year for the same four engineers in Boston. Time-to-team is three to five weeks. The engineers we put on Boston healthtech accounts have shipped HIPAA-regulated production systems before; they know what a BAA means, what de-identification under Safe Harbor looks like, and why your Mass-General security review is going to ask about audit-log retention. Attrition on our side ran at 6 percent in 2025 — the average engineer on a YuSMP Boston account has been there 28 months.
Two PhD co-founders with a working drug-discovery ML model in PyTorch and a seed round. They need a productionised platform: chemist-facing web UI, FastAPI backend, model-serving on Triton, secure data ingestion from CRO partners. We deliver a 4-engineer team (1 ML, 1 backend, 1 full-stack, 1 DevOps) for 9 months. SOC 2 Type I in month 6, first paying CRO customer in month 8. Cost: 18,500 EUR/month.
120-person healthtech company with EHR integrations to 14 hospital systems, looking to ship a Claude-4.6-powered clinical-note summarisation feature without expanding their HIPAA-eligible AWS footprint. We add a 3-engineer ML squad (1 ML, 1 backend, 1 prompt+eval engineer) alongside their Boston platform team. BAA in place day 1. From 14,500 EUR/month.
Class II SaMD pre-submission roadmap, founders need an IEC-62304-compliant codebase, traceable requirements, verification and validation evidence, and a hospital-pilot-ready web app. We pair with the founders' regulatory consultant and deliver the engineering evidence pack. 6-month engagement, 2 senior engineers + 1 documentation/QA engineer. From 13,500 EUR/month.
YuSMP Group contracts with Boston clients through YuSMP GmbH, registered in Berlin, Germany. Master Services Agreements are typically governed by Delaware law with venue in Massachusetts for Boston-headquartered clients; NDA and IP assignment language is matched to a Delaware C-corp's founder paper so investor and acquirer diligence is clean. We sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreements before any engineer touches a PHI-handling environment, DPAs aligned to GDPR and CCPA for SaaS handling EU and California user data, and the IEC 62304 / 21 CFR Part 11 documentation patterns required by Mass General Brigham and Beth Israel procurement. All code, infrastructure-as-code, designs, and clinical documentation transfer to the client as work-for-hire on invoice payment; no background-IP carve-outs except for clearly disclosed open-source dependencies, delivered as a documented bill of materials per release.
6 to 10-week fixed-price MVP for Kendall Square spin-outs and pre-seed Boston founders. Discovery, design, build, staging deploy, demo and first-pilot-ready package.
2-engineer pair on a 12-month engagement, full-time, same team. HIPAA-trained, BAA signed at contract. Scales to 12 engineers in a single squad before we split into pods.
For Boston biotech and healthtech founders running engineering hiring, architecture, vendor selection, and SOC 2 / HIPAA readiness in parallel. See the fractional CTO page.
30-minute Zoom with the founder, CTO, or research lead. We map the work, the regulatory profile (HIPAA / IEC 62304 / 21 CFR Part 11), and the hospital-pilot or fundraise deadline.
Within 5 business days: written proposal with team composition, deliverables, monthly pricing, and a 3-month minimum term. MSA, BAA, and SOW drafts attached.
Week 1: engineers in your Slack, Jira, GitHub. Engagement lead meets your Boston team on Zoom daily for the first sprint, in person in Cambridge or the Seaport during week 2 if you want it.
Daily standups at 9:30 AM ET, weekly sprint review, bi-weekly retro, monthly written status report. Quarterly business review on-site in Boston when scope justifies.
Yes. We work with HIPAA-regulated clients regularly, sign Business Associate Agreements, and have shipped systems handling PHI for two Boston-area healthtech clients. For biotech and life-sciences software we are familiar with 21 CFR Part 11 (FDA electronic records), GxP-aligned change management, and the validation-friendly documentation patterns that Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel, and Boston Children's procurement teams expect to see in a vendor questionnaire. We are not an FDA validation consultancy; we are an engineering vendor that produces code and documentation a validation team can accept.
It is one of our most common Boston engagement profiles. A Kendall Square spin-out typically arrives with a Jupyter notebook that proves a scientific or ML thesis, a co-founder who is a postdoc, and a 1.5M to 4M USD seed round. We turn that into a productionised system: refactor the research code into a tested Python package, build a web product or API around it, set up MLOps for retraining, and ship the SOC 2 and HIPAA evidence the first hospital pilot requires. Typical time from kickoff to first paying customer is 4 to 6 months.
Boston senior engineer comp in 2026 runs 170k to 230k USD base for Cambridge or Seaport roles, 230k to 310k USD fully loaded once you add equity, benefits, payroll taxes, MA state unemployment, and an allocated share of Kendall Square real estate. Time-to-hire is 78 days on average through an in-house recruiter, longer if you compete with Akamai, HubSpot, Wayfair, or the foundation-model-adjacent Cambridge AI startups. Our nearshore senior engineers cost about 155k to 280k USD per year for a four-person team, available in three to five weeks.
We support the engineering side of SaMD work: IEC 62304 software lifecycle documentation, traceable requirements, design controls, verification and validation evidence, deterministic build pipelines, and audit-friendly change management in Git. Your regulatory consultant or in-house RA team owns the 510(k) or De Novo submission narrative; we own the technical evidence package that goes into it. We have delivered this for one Class II SaMD client and we partner with two Boston-based regulatory consultancies for clients who need that capability bundled.
Boston is Eastern Time, identical to New York. Our CET engineers overlap 4 solid hours per day with a 9 AM ET Boston team (9 AM to 1 PM ET), enough for joint standups, design review, pairing, and same-day handoffs. For quarterly on-sites we typically fly the engagement lead and one or two senior engineers to Boston for two to four days — sprint planning, architecture workshops, or a hospital-side pilot kickoff. Logan is a 7-hour direct from Frankfurt, so the trip is logistically lighter than it sounds.
