GenBio AI
Director, Engineering
$300K–$400K
Palo Alto, CA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience; at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
- Visa sponsorship
- GenBio AI participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.
About the job
Leads engineering execution, teams, and production systems that operationalize AI research and foundation models for GenBio AI’s virtual-cell products.
What you'll do
- Turn company vision into engineering roadmaps and deliver product and infrastructure milestones on schedule.
- Contribute hands-on through coding and reviews; build reliable production systems from experimental research models.
- Manage and mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and coordinate execution with executives and AI research leads.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including at least 5 years in senior leadership roles; experience managing managers and scaling teams.
- Hands-on expertise building, scaling, and deploying generative AI products and foundation models in production.
- Ability to move complex, ambiguous technologies from R&D into reliable commercial platforms.
- Deep understanding of high-performance computing, GPU cluster optimization, and distributed systems for training and serving foundation models at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience in computational biology, genomics, drug discovery, or AI-enabled scientific software.
- Experience with internal developer platforms, MLOps pipelines, or early-stage, high-growth AI startups.
Pay
USD 300,000–400,000 (per-year-salary); base salary
Tools
AI infrastructure, generative AI, foundation models, high-performance computing, GPU cluster optimization, distributed systems, automated testing, CI/CD
AI focus
Operationalizes experimental AI research and foundation models in scalable production systems for virtual-cell simulation and scientific research.
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