Director/ Senior Director, Lab Platform Engineering
Core
Lead the team building and operating hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure for an automated lab fleet and AI Science Factory.
Role type
Senior Director, Lab Platform Engineering
Builds
Hybrid edge and cloud infrastructure, bare metal clusters, secure identity services, resilient storage, and APIs for lab workflows.
Domain
Life sciences / Materials science / AI-driven laboratory automation
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure, Kubernetes at scale, fleet operations and reliability, budget and capacity planning, cross-functional executive partnership, hiring and developing senior engineers
Preferred skills
Laboratory automation and robotics, distributed and edge systems, security and compliance in regulated settings, infrastructure-as-code and GitOps
Responsibilities
Build and lead a team of 10 to 15 engineers; set multi-year technical vision for hybrid infrastructure; own platform roadmap and delivery; manage fleet operations, on-call, and incident response; oversee infrastructure budget and vendor relationships; partner with robotics, research, and security leaders; raise engineering standards through thought leadership.
Seniority
Senior Director, hands-on leadership
