Staff Engineer, Formation Bio
AI Foundations
$250-300k
+ Equity
End-to-end medical trial solutions
Posted today
End-to-end medical trial solutions
101-200 employees
Posted today
$250-300k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- If you are passionate about creating foundational technical investments and shaping a next-generation AI ecosystem, we’d love to hear from you
- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of software development experience with a strong track record in building scalable, distributed systems and platforms—preferably within AI/ML contexts
- Proven track record and experience with Build vs Buy decisions. We want to move quickly and focus on the most differentiating work in a rapidly evolving field. That means knowing when to build and when to buy
- Deep experience with AI/ML frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and familiarity with modern tools for model evaluation, profiling, and governance
- Extensive background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their respective AI Tooling (Bedrock, Sagemaker, Google Vertex, Azure ML Studio), containerization, and CI/CD methodologies
- Proven expertise in designing and implementing service architectures and building enterprise-grade systems
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional settings with a passion for mentoring and technical guidance
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Experience establishing technical standards and best practices in early-stage or startup environments is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a seasoned Staff Engineer to lead our AI Foundations Team—a new initiative dedicated to establishing the core infrastructure, platforms, and governance frameworks that will underpin our enterprise-wide AI capabilities
- In this role, you will architect and drive the development of our AI Platform, Services, and Governance layer
- Your work will empower teams across the organization by providing scalable, secure, and efficient access to AI models and tooling
- Define and lead the end-to-end design of our AI Platform, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure services
- Drive the integration of key initiatives such as model profiling & benchmarking, programmatic model access, evaluation tooling, knowledge graphs, and scalable model deployment
- Establish best practices for AI model governance and operational excellence, setting technical standards that ensure quality, security, and performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams—Tech, Data Science, Regulatory, and Quality Assurance —to translate strategic requirements into innovative technical solutions
- Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in AI infrastructure and platform engineering to identify new technical investments and opportunities to enhance our AI capabilities
- Act as an internal evangelist, mentoring teams and deploying technical approaches that help us forward our mission to deliver treatments to patients faster and more efficiently
- Oversee the development and integration of cloud and AI native services, models, and CI/CD pipelines to support continuous delivery
- Ensure the platform is robust, scalable, and can seamlessly support evolving AI models and services
Our take
Clinical drug trials are lengthy and expensive, delaying the supply of vital new drugs to patients and costing lives. For Formation Bio, this is an efficiency issue - one which it hopes to solve with its end-to-end automation solution.
According to the company, its approach has teams running medical trials twice as fast and at half the cost. It's worked so well, in fact, that Formation Bio is looking to take drug development in-house.
Now a Unicorn, the company has secured heavyweights like Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe as partners. Precisely how it will fare in the Big Pharma ecosystem remains to be seen, but the promise of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is certainly causing a stir in a market that has historically been resistant to both.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$372m
SERIES D
Sep 2021
$156m
SERIES C
Total funding: $530.3m
Company values
- Think in first principles
- Be a scientist
- Deliver care
- Champion the mission
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Benjamine Liu
(CEO)Worked as a computational biologist at various Neurology departments, following a D.Phil in computational Biology and Psychiatry at Oxford. They are also an Advisor at Harvard Business School.
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