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Vice President, Engineering

Alewife, Cambridge, MA💼 Full-time💰 $310,000–$310,000🗓 2026-05-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Define and implement a unified, scalable platform for autonomous experimentation across hardware, automation, and systems engineering to enable AI-driven lab science.

Role type

VP of Engineering (Executive Leadership)

Builds

Global AI Science Factory sites and a repeatable deployment model for autonomous laboratories.

Domain

AI-integrated lab automation, materials science, chemistry, and life science.

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Lab automation engineering, multi-disciplinary team leadership, AI/ML integration in engineering, systems architecture, reliability engineering, scaling operations, robotics integration, controls/SCADA, change management, executive stakeholder management.

Preferred skills

Mechanical/electrical systems fluency, interface standard definition, lifecycle management (PLM-lite), multi-domain science fluency, LIMS/orchestration pipeline management, R&D to scaled operations transition.

Technologies

Robotics, SCADA, LIMS, orchestration schedulers, AI/ML frameworks, controls systems.

Responsibilities

Set engineering roadmap and platform priorities; define unified platform architecture; establish system-level ownership of interfaces and requirements; implement lifecycle and compliance processes; develop global deployment models; build mentorship culture; partner on industrializing autonomous labs; integrate AI into engineering lifecycle; establish hiring practices; represent engineering to executives; partner with external integrators.

Seniority

Executive (VP), hands-on leadership

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