Director of Engineering, Formation Bio
$230-275k
End-to-end medical trial solutions
Job no longer available
End-to-end medical trial solutions
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$230-275k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is passionate about developing quality products, enabling their team to be the best version of themselves, and committed to continuous improvement
What the job involves
- Lead an Engineering team accountable for delivering high-quality products
- Develop and mentor Engineering Managers and Individual Contributors
- Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement among the Engineering team
- Develop and implement best practices that drive efficiency, quality, and innovation across the organization
- Optimize Engineering processes to achieve high levels of productivity and quality while reducing cycle time and technical debt
- Work with other teams such as Site Reliability Engineering and Validation Management to establish and improve the software development and deployment lifecycle
- Partner with Product to define the Trial Conduct vision, strategy, and roadmap
- Drive the execution of the roadmap by working closely with cross-functional teams
- Ensure that products are built to be reliable and easy to maintain
- Identify and mitigate technical risks and make sound decisions to ensure that the product is delivered on time and within budget
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. This success has pushed Formation to expand beyond supporting trials into developing assets itself. In 2025, it reached a major milestone by licensing its first drug - a late-stage JAK/SYK inhibitor - to Sanofi in a deal worth up to hundreds of millions. Alongside this, the company has also added an early immunology program to its pipeline, signaling a broader push into in-house development.
Now a Unicorn, with partners including Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe, Formation Bio is steadily embedding itself within the Big Pharma ecosystem. How far it can go remains an open question, but the prospect of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is becoming harder for the industry to ignore.
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 benefits
- Flexible Time Off: We have a flexible PTO policy as we trust our team members to take the time they need to recharge.
- Parental Leave: We believe your personal life enriches your professional one. We offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents so you can start or grow your family.
- Comprehensive Benefits: All full time employees have access to health, vision, and dental insurance. Additionally, we provide pre-tax commuter benefits, access to a 401k plan, short and long-term disability and life insurance.
- Education & Career Development Resources: Formation Bio offers a plethora of professional development resources to employees. Some examples include fireside chats with industry experts, conference passes, certification courses, internal mobility opportunities, in depth manager training, leadership coaching program, and more.
- Strategic Hiring Hubs: Formation Bio teams are hybrid and based in four key hubs: New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Our bright and collaborative NYC headquarters is conveniently located near major transit hubs and stocked with drinks, coffee, snacks, and a weekly lunch.
- Community: Our teams collaborate closely to achieve our mission, supporting each other across functions and priorities. We build connection through team-building events, quarterly company gatherings, a company-wide retreat every two years, and Employee Resource Groups.
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Benjamine Liu
(Co-Founder & 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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