Lead Platform Engineer
Engineering · Posted 4 months ago
Technical lead for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure that runs our sequencing operation.
- Way of working
- Hybrid
- Location
- South San Francisco, San Mateo, CA
- Pay range
- $205,000 to $235,000
- Level
- Staff
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Type
- Full time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered for this role
- The company
- Biotechnology Research · 50 to 200 people
Skills that matter here
The full description
Technical lead for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure that runs our sequencing operation.
You will:
- Own core services that orchestrate lab devices (robots, sequencers, on-prem Linux servers) and the data ingestion pipeline
- Build cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to house, process, and deliver terabytes of sequencing data
- Design infrastructure to orchestrate millions of bioinformatics tasks (queues, workflow orchestration, scheduling)
- Build AI infrastructure and internal tooling to enable agentic systems:
- Quality Scientist Agents - monitor operations end-to-end, surface anomalies, and intervene/escalate when quality or reliability issues appear
- Logistics Agents - coordinate drivers around the world to move packages to labs and carriers
- Bioinformatics Coding Agents - long-running agents for adaptive analysis of diverse sample types with unknown/shifting data distributions
Culture
You are someone who:
- Enjoys high agency and high ownership work
- Can lead ambiguous, cross-functional projects from idea to production
- Is curious about learning from other people’s expertise in scientific/biological domains
- Is excited to make an impact on the scientific community
- Is a life-long learner
- Is excited to work in a tight-knit fast-paced environment with a motivated team
- Values clear communication, mentorship, and helping others learn new skills
- Excited about building on the bleeding edge
Interested in this one?
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