Platform TechOps Lead, Isomorphic Labs
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Kings Cross, London)
AI-driven drug discovery and development
Open for applications
AI-driven drug discovery and development
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Kings Cross, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
Isomorphic Labs' mission is to use AI and machine learning methods to accelerate and improve the drug discovery process.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated ability hiring, leading and developing teams of engineers (teams of 6-10 people including indirect reports)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and at least one major Cloud Platform (GCP preferred but not must have)
- Experience with CI/CD, Release management and DevOps related technologies
- Strong Python programming (other programming languages will also be considered, but there is a preference for Python) in additional to Shell Scripting
- Clear understanding of Infrastructure as Code and Immutable Infrastructure
- Experience with Helm/Kustomize/Kapitan or similar deployment tools
- Experience with Grafana/Prometheus/Splunk or similar monitoring/observability technologies
- Experience building secure/scalable platforms/products on cloud
- Practical experience with modern SRE/DevOps lifecycle, tools, and frameworks
- Pragmatism and flexibility, being willing to get hands on if/when required
Desirable
- MLOps frameworks and tooling experience are highly desirable
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- Experience building, deploying and maintaining production systems on GCP
- Strong foundations in software engineering before moving into a technical operations role
- Experience supporting both production systems and Machine Learning team/pipelines
- Comfortable with identifying security risks and implementing measures to mitigate them
- Basic knowledge of biology / chemistry
- Pharma and/or biotech industry experience, ideally with a focus on drug discovery
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- You will be driving the technical strategy for our groundbreaking ML-based software platform that will transform the biopharmaceutical world as we know it
- Working in a highly creative, iterative environment, you will be managing a team and working alongside engineers, scientists and ML researchers to build the platform that will accelerate the work of everyone in Isomorphic. . You’ll be responsible for setting the standards and defining developer experience for the entire organization
- We’re still at a relatively early stage in our journey, with a level of ambiguity as we continuously learn from each other, so you will need to build on your previous experience and show initiative in order to fully carve out your contribution in this newly created role
- You will continue to develop and empower a diverse team of developers, providing technical guidance and direction and anticipate future resource needs in line with business goals and priorities
- Develop technical strategy for the team, making sure you can support the scale and the complexity of our problems
- Define technical standards and improve developer experience for the entire organization
- Define goals and drive execution for the team
- Operate and manage research, development, and production cloud infrastructure and systems (GCP, K8s, Docker, Terraform, Kapitan, etc.)
- Define and drive reliability and observability strategy for the company
- Build and operate processes and tools for effective operational management of research and production software, and to to enable and enhance effective software development practices
- Participate in the hiring process, helping to build a high-performing team
- Contribute to the development of team strategy and goals
- Unlock the potential of and provide relevant challenges to the team, while also providing technical guidance where appropriate
- Partner and collaborate with a diverse set of teams including science (drug discovery), research (machine learning), product, business development and operations
- Contribute to core technical decisions (e.g. choice of tooling, infrastructure, and architectural design)
Application process
- 1. Apply with your profile
- 2. Initial screening call with Talent team
- 3. 2x Technical interviews
- 4. Take home task & review session
- 5. 2x Behavioural and Management skills interviews
- 6. Hiring Manager (Eng Director) interview
- 7. Senior Management (CTO) interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The discovery of new drugs is essential for medical innovations, but the process is lengthy, high-risk, and expensive. This is due to manual research and analysis processes that are prone to human error and time-consuming workflows, raising the question as to whether AI could reduce these pitfalls.
Rather than bolting ML onto the existing drug discovery process, Isomorphic Labs is reimagining everything from first principles with an AI-first approach, leveraging machine learning to build predictive and generative models of biological phenomena to understand how novel drugs could perform. The company differentiates itself from other AI-driven drug discovery startups by being a direct subsidiary of Alphabet, with access to resources, computing power, and partnerships with teams within DeepMind.
AI-driven drug discovery itself may not be novel, but the approach the company is taking, as well as its direct links with Alphabet, Google, and DeepMind present great potential for the company to disrupt the market with the best talent and technology. For example, 2023 saw Isomorphic and DeepMind unveil Alphafold 3, an AI model that has the ability to predict the complex molecular structures of life's foundational building blocks, further adding to the anticipation in the industry for Isomorphic's future work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% female employees
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2025
$600m
LATE VC
Total funding: $600m
Company values
- Thoughtful: Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day
- Brave: Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less
- Determined: Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we
- In this together: Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Demis Hassabis
(CEO)Experience as Founder & CEO of Elixir Studios. Founder and CEO of DeepMind since 2010.
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