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Platform Engineering Lead | AI Infra

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-28 → 2026-09-25

Core

Technical lead and manager for compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure running a global sequencing operation for biotech research.

Role type

Senior Platform Engineering Lead (AI Infra)

Builds

Cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and AI agent systems for lab device orchestration and bioinformatics task scheduling.

Domain

Biotechnology / Genomics / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

LLM/agent system development, Python backend services, AWS containerized task orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, distributed systems with task queues, SQL/data modeling, Linux server management, REST API design.

Preferred skills

DNA sequencing bioinformatics algorithms, mentoring engineers, leading cross-functional projects.

Technologies

Python, AWS (Lambda, ECS, Batch, StepFunctions), Terraform, AWS CDK, Celery, SQS, Postgres, Flask/Django/FastAPI, Ansible, systemd, OpenAPI.

Responsibilities

Own core services orchestrating lab devices and data ingestion pipelines; build cloud infrastructure for terabytes of sequencing data; design infrastructure for millions of bioinformatics tasks; build AI infrastructure for quality, logistics, and bioinformatics coding agents.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership

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