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Director, Software Engineering - Data, SciTech, Science

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) funds and builds tools to accelerate biomedical science with the aim of understanding human biology and curing, preventing, or managing all diseases by the end of the century. We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering - Data to lead a growing team building a PB-scale data platform and pipelines to ingest, standardize, serve, and manage diverse multimodal biological datasets used for AI model training and scientific discovery.

Skills

  • Proven experience designing and operating PB-scale data solutions across cloud and on-prem environments.
  • Strong software engineering and architecture skills with practical delivery experience.
  • Experience building high-throughput data ingestion pipelines for imaging, sequencing, and instrumentation data.
  • Familiarity with preparing datasets for AI/ML training and supporting evolving data types.
  • Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and scale engineering teams and culture.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead an engineering team focused on data services, pipelines, and a data platform for imaging, mass spectrometry, and sequencing data.
  • Define technical direction, architecture, and best practices for PB-scale hybrid (on-prem/cloud) data solutions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, AI engineers, product managers, and scientists to shape requirements and roadmap.
  • Drive Agile development practices to deliver iterative value and maintain high quality and reliability.
  • Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; build a diverse, high-performing team.
  • Oversee operational readiness, monitoring, and lifecycle management of data used for AI training.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience).
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant field preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • Generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions
  • Paid time off to volunteer
  • Funding support for select family-forming benefits
  • Relocation assistance available
  • Hybrid work model with ~60% onsite expectation and career development support
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