Apply to Isomorphic LabsYour impact
As the Head of Engineering, you will lead and continue to develop our Software Engineering department consisting of several teams, including ML Engineering, Data Engineering, Scientific Applications Engineering, and Technical Operations. The technical roadmap that you will deliver will develop cutting edge AI models and products in pursuit of groundbreaking bio-pharmaceutical discoveries. This role will require you to draw on your extensive experience and offers an exciting opportunity to carve out your contribution in this entrepreneurial environment. You will report to the CTO and will partner closely with other senior leaders in the technology organisation, including heads of Machine Learning Research, Product, Computational Biology, Information Security, and others.
Your responsibilities
- Develop and deliver the engineering roadmap and strategy
- Partner and collaborate with a diverse set of internal teams including drug discovery, research, product, business development and operations as well as external teams in the wider Alphabet organisation
- Build a high performing, agile team of software, ML, data, research and DevOps engineers
- Provide technical leadership to the organisation and own core technical decisions (e.g. choice of tooling, infrastructure, and architectural design)
- Manage research, development, integration and production environments with operational excellence
- Manage desktop support and application management across the organisation, including crucial tools and systems
- Manage collecting and operationalising the world’s largest and most complex collection of biochemical datasets and data processing pipelines
- Manage the development and productionisation of cutting edge ML models across a variety of use cases.
- Manage the development of a novel suite of end user applications for drug discovery and design according to UX best practices.
Your skills and qualifications
Essential
- Strong foundations in software engineering, software design, distributed systems
- Proven track record of developing, productionising, and operating ML-based platforms and tools
- Experience in operational excellence, IT management, IT process design and optimisation
- Experience partnering with research and product teams
- Experience building secure/scalable platforms/products on cloud
- 5+ years experience building and leading multi-team engineering organisations of 20+ people
- People leadership and management experience
- Experience partnering with executive stakeholders
Nice to have
- Pharma, biotech, or healthcare industry experience, ideally with a focus on drug discovery
- Experience conducting strategic planning and roadmap development
- Google Compute Platform experience is an asset
- Software architecture and design skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field (or equivalent)
Culture and values
What does it take to be successful at IsoLabs? It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way, but we do have some shared values:
Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.
Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.
Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.
In this together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.
Creating an inclusive company
We realise that to be successful we need our teams to reflect and represent the populations we are striving to serve. We’re working to build a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared. We value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Hybrid working
It’s hugely important for us to be able to share knowledge and establish relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we’ve decided to follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tue, Wed, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). As an equal opportunities employer we are committed to building an equal and inclusive team. If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.
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Isomorphic Labs is a new Alphabet company that is reimagining drug discovery through a computational- and AI-first approach.
We are on a mission to accelerate the speed, increase the efficacy and lower the cost of drug discovery. You'll be working at the cutting edge of the new era of 'digital biology' to deliver a transformative social impact for the benefit of millions of people.
Come and be part of a multi-disciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.