Director Software Engineering - AI SciTech Science
Director Software Engineering - AI SciTech Science
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$ 323000 - 485000
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Job Description
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of societys toughest challenges from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive just and healthy future for everyone.
The Team
CZI supports the science and technology that will make it possible to help scientists cure prevent or manage all diseases by the end of this century. While this may seem like an audacious goal in the last 100 years biomedical science has made tremendous strides in understanding biological systems advancing human health and treating disease.
Achieving our mission will only be possible if scientists are able to better understand human biology. To that end we have identified four grand challenges that will unlock the mysteries of the cell and how cells interact within systems paving the way for new discoveries that will change medicine in the decades that follow:
- Building an AIbased virtual cell model to predict and understand cellular behavior
- Developing stateoftheart imaging systems to observe living cells in action
- Instrumenting tissues to better understand inflammation a key driver of many diseases
- Engineering and harnessing the immune system for early detection prevention and treatment of disease
As Director of Software Engineering AI in the Science Technology Organization you would be leading a group of highly motivated and talented engineers to build ML pipelines and services that scientists and biologists rely on every day in ways that enable them to draw more meaningful conclusions or biological insights more quickly.
This role will lead a growing software engineering team that includes research engineers and enterprise software engineers working closely with our AI Science teams and crossfunctionally with Product Managers UX Designers and Researchers Application Scientists and Computational Biologists to design build and maintain ML pipelines for training Foundation Models as well services to execute models at runtime. Our AI Engineering function is a critical part of the Virtual Cell Platform and our mission to build an AI model of the cell.
- Lead an engineering team focused on AI services developing and supporting ML pipelines (to streamline Foundation Model training) model runtime services (e.g. model inference) and generative AI services (e.g. Agentbased orchestration LLMbased workflows).
- Work crossfunctionally with internal and external partners to develop and deliver on the roadmap and plan the longterm strategy for how AI comes to life on the Virtual Cell Platform.
- Lead partnerships with industryleading AI companies (e.g. NVIDIA Microsoft) to accelerate our roadmap and increase our reach
- Participate in and encourage Agile software development practices to deliver frequent value to our users and enable continuous feedback loops.
- Guide the team on technical decisions and oversee that best practices are being followed. Ensure quality in the work we deliver. Be a handson manager to the team.
- Provide mentoring and career development support to direct reports.
- Hire and onboard engineers to fill resource gaps while building out a diverse team
What Youll Bring
- 10 years of experience in Software Engineering with 5 years of engineering leadership experience (as a people manager)
- Expert knowledge of software engineering with the ability to translate theoretical knowledge into practical approaches involving research analysis conclusions and the creation and of action plans
- Experience working with an interdisciplinary team to shape product requirements and designs and deliver software solutions.
- Expertise in building userfacing applications deployed in production environments using modern web technologies
- Ability to serve as an example on providing direction and guidance by communicating clearly directly and respectfully while inspiring growth and collaboration across multiple audiences with proven ability to coach and develop engineers skills and careers
- Ability to contribute to software design discussions and decisions.
The Redwood City CA base pay range for this role is $323000 $485000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on jobrelated skills and experience as evaluated throughout the interview process.
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