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Director, Engineering

Palo Alto, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Translate long-term vision into actionable engineering roadmaps and operationalize research into production-grade systems for a multimodal AI system predicting and simulating cellular behavior.

Role type

Senior IC engineering director (AI infrastructure)

Builds

Production-grade systems for a Virtual Cell World Model and AI-native engineering framework for drug discovery

Domain

AI-driven drug discovery, computational biology, generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering leadership, hands-on coding, architectural design, CI/CD pipeline management, team mentorship, cross-functional orchestration

Preferred skills

Computational biology domain knowledge, MLOps pipeline experience, early-stage startup experience

Technologies

Generative AI, foundation models, GPU clusters, distributed systems

Responsibilities

Translate high-level vision into concrete engineering roadmaps; actively contribute to the codebase as a hands-on leader; build the bridge between research and engineering; enforce standards for automated testing and CI/CD; mentor and level up engineers; partner with executive leadership to align technical execution with goals

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