Associate Director, Operations

The Broad Institute is building agentic AI systems to accelerate the work of scientists at the institute and across the world in fields such as genomics genetics virology and more. This goal requires significant engineering expertise as we build infrastructure capable of supporting the workloads of AI co-scientists. This exciting work will lay the foundation for scientific discovery loops where the massive data collection efforts at the Broad Institute are paired with AI systems to make observations generate hypotheses and design experiments that will enable us to learn fundamental biology at unprecedented scale.

Role Overview
The Associate Director drives the design development and operation of largescale infrastructure that powers the Broad Institutes scientific discovery and sharing. This role blends agentic software engineering data science DevOps and platform architecture ensuring that scientific workflows run reliably efficiently and at massive scale where required. The Associate Director Software Engineering works closely with computational scientists operations teams and external collaborators to transform research prototypes into productiongrade systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Direct technical design and implementation for new agentic capabilities ensuring scalability reliability and maintainability.
• Guide teams in collaborating with scientific and engineering teams to translate research requirements into robust production systems.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices for agentic engineering and DevOps observability infrastructure automation and cloud operations.
• Manage and mentor senior engineers while driving longterm platform strategy.
• Lead a high-performing team directly managing 12 initial reports with the opportunity to scale the team as organizational funding permits

• Agentic engineering fluency and proficiency with recent LLM ecosystems (e.g. claude Codex Copilot)
• BS with 10 years of professional software engineering experience including significant time leading engineering teams in DevOps SRE or platform engineering roles or a Masters and 8 years of related experience or a PhD and 5 years of related experience.
• 5 years management experience required.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee the design and delivery of highscale distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS or GCP).
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines infrastructureascode containerization and cloudnative operations.
• Experience with modern database systems (relational document graph etc.)
• Ability to align and communicate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
• Proven track record of leading teams effectively in fastpaced crossdisciplinary environments.

• Experience leading initiatives that support scientific computing bioinformatics workflows or largescale data processing pipelines.
• Experience overseeing the integration of heterogeneous systems across research clinical and operational domains.
• Prior work managing operations in missioncritical environments with strict reliability and throughput requirements.