Head of Software Engineering

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About the Role You'll be a player-coach — someone who still ships code but also owns the engineering roadmap, team structure, and technical direction. You'll translate company strategy into engineering priorities, make sure the right things get built in the right order, and help a small, high-output team scale without losing speed. You'll lead a small, technical engineering team that leverages AI to build the software infrastructure for running our automated lab. Your job is to make it the best small engineering team in biotech, and grow it thoughtfully as we scale. This is not a management-track role where you stop building. You'll stay hands-on, especially as AI agents reshape what a small engineering team can accomplish.…

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