Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering, London LONDON

Head of Engineering, London

Isomorphic Labs is a new Alphabet company that is reimagining

drug discovery through a computational- and AI-first approach.

We are on a mission to accelerate the speed, increase the efficacy

and lower the cost of drug discovery. You’ll be working at the

cutting edge of the new era of ‘digital biology’ to deliver a

transformative social impact for the benefit of millions of people.

Come and be part of a multi-disciplinary team driving

groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in

contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being

a part of an inspiring, collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.

Your impact

As the Head of Engineering, you will lead and continue to develop

our Software Engineering department consisting of several teams,

including ML Engineering, Data Engineering, Scientific Applications

Engineering, and Technical Operations. The technical roadmap that

you will deliver will develop cutting edge AI models and products in

pursuit of groundbreaking bio-pharmaceutical discoveries. This role

will require you to draw on your extensive experience and offers an

exciting opportunity to carve out your contribution in this

entrepreneurial environment. You will report to the CTO and will

partner closely with other senior leaders in the technology

organisation, including heads of Machine Learning Research,

Product, Computational Biology, Information Security, and others.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the engineering roadmap and strategy

• Partner and collaborate with a diverse set of internal teams

including drug discovery, research, product, business

development and operations as well as external teams in the

wider Alphabet organisation

• Build a high performing, agile team of software, ML, data,

research and DevOps engineers

• Provide technical leadership to the organisation and own core

technical decisions (e.g. choice of tooling, infrastructure,

and architectural design)

• Manage research, development, integration and production

environments with operational excellence

• Manage desktop support and application management across

the organisation, including crucial tools and systems

• Manage collecting and operationalising the world’s largest and

most complex collection of biochemical datasets and data

processing pipelines

• Manage the development and productionisation of cutting

edge ML models across a variety of use cases.

• Manage the development of a novel suite of end user

applications for drug discovery and design according to UX

best practices.

Your skills and qualifications

Essential

• Strong foundations in software engineering, software design,

distributed systems

• Proven track record of developing, productionising, and

operating ML-based platforms and tools

• Experience in operational excellence, IT management, IT

process design and optimisation

• Experience partnering with research and product teams

• Experience building secure/scalable platforms/products on

cloud

• 5+ years experience building and leading multi-team

engineering organisations of 20+ people

• People leadership and management experience

• Experience partnering with executive stakeholders

Nice to have

• Pharma, biotech, or healthcare industry experience, ideally

with a focus on drug discovery

• Experience conducting strategic planning and roadmap

development

• Google Compute Platform experience is an asset

• Software architecture and design skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical

field (or equivalent)

Culture and values

What does it take to be successful at IsoLabs? It’s not about finding

people who think and act in the same way, but we do have some

shared 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.

Creating an inclusive company

We realise that to be successful we need our teams to reflect and

represent the populations we are striving to serve. We’re working to

build a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is

encouraged and learning is shared. We value diversity of

experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and

harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of

sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age,

citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual

orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition

(including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable

law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires

accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid working

It’s hugely important for us to be able to share knowledge and

establish relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do

this if we spend time together in person. This is why we’ve decided

to follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come

into the office 3 days a week (currently Tue, Wed, and one other

day depending on which team you’re in). As an equal opportunities

employer we are committed to building an equal and inclusive team.

If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following

this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re

selected for an initial screening call.

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