Lead Platform Engineer (US)

Technical lead for the compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure that runs our sequencing operation.

You will:

• Own core services that orchestrate lab devices (robots, sequencers, on-prem Linux servers) and the data ingestion pipeline

• Build cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to house, process, and deliver terabytes of sequencing data

• Design infrastructure to orchestrate millions of bioinformatics tasks (queues, workflow orchestration, scheduling)

• Build AI infrastructure and internal tooling to enable agentic systems:

• Quality Scientist Agents - monitor operations end-to-end, surface anomalies, and intervene/escalate when quality or reliability issues appear

• Logistics Agents - coordinate drivers around the world to move packages to labs and carriers

• Bioinformatics Coding Agents - long-running agents for adaptive analysis of diverse sample types with unknown/shifting data distributions

Culture

You are someone who:

• Enjoys high agency and high ownership work

• Can lead ambiguous, cross-functional projects from idea to production

• Is curious about learning from other people’s expertise in scientific/biological domains

• Is excited to make an impact on the scientific community

• Is a life-long learner

• Is excited to work in a tight-knit fast-paced environment with a motivated team

• Values clear communication, mentorship, and helping others learn new skills

• Excited about building on the bleeding edge