About Pioneering Intelligence

Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneering's legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures, harnessing recent advances in AI, machine learning, and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagship's integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital, it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies, elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health, sustainability, and beyond.

The Role

The Pioneering Intelligence team at Flagship Pioneering builds the digital and AI foundation that accelerates the creation and growth of our companies. We are seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead a medium sized team of Principal Software Engineers, each operating as the technical authority for their own product area.

This is a non-traditional engineering leadership role. Rather than managing a layered organization, you will build and support a team composed entirely of senior individual contributors operating as technical leads at the highest level. Each engineer owns end-to-end technical decisions, builds hands-on, and engages directly with scientific users. Your job is not to manage their work but to set the conditions in which exceptional engineers do their best work, remove obstacles, raise the collective bar, and translate technical strategy into organizational direction.

You remain technically active. You will contribute to architectural decisions, review complex system designs, and stay close enough to the work to lead credibly. You spend roughly 25% of your time in hands-on technical work. The rest is spent on strategy, people, and organizational leadership: building the team, aligning with product leadership, representing the function to senior stakeholders, and driving the conditions for fast, high-quality delivery across the portfolio.

The model is intentionally fluid. Principal Engineers on this team may move between pure IC work and the formal coordination of other resources as project needs evolve, including the management of fully embedded software engineering contractors. It is the VP who balances resources across all teams and projects, in close collaboration with product and strategy leads, ensuring the right people are working on the right things at the right time.

You will work in close partnership with product and strategy leads and alongside a team of peers who expect the same rigor and accountability from you that you expect from them.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of approximately five Principal Software Engineers, each owning technical authority for their own product area
• Set technical strategy and architectural direction for the AI and digital platform, making or ratifying the most consequential build-vs-buy and system design decisions
• Stay technically active: contribute to architectural reviews, design complex systems, and maintain the credibility to lead a team of principal-level engineers
• Build and maintain the team itself: hire exceptional engineers, develop their careers, and create a culture where the floor is principal-level performance
• Represent engineering to product leadership, senior stakeholders, and across the Flagship ecosystem, translating technical direction into business impact
• Balance resources across all teams and projects in close collaboration with product and strategy leads, including decisions about when Principal Engineers take on formal coordination of embedded SWE contractors versus pure IC work
• Drive delivery across the portfolio by removing blockers, resolving cross-team dependencies, and ensuring the team ships with speed and quality
• Model and advance an AI-native engineering culture, including the use of tools like Claude Code as organizational force multipliers

Professional Experience and Qualifications

Experiences

• Has led a team of senior individual contributors or principal-level engineers, ideally in a lean, high-velocity organization where the team was small and the scope was large
• Has served as the technical authority on a complex, production-grade system, not as a manager who delegates the hard parts, but as an engineer who owned them
• Has built and scaled engineering organizations in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, ideally at a startup or within a high-autonomy team inside a larger organization
• Has worked closely with scientific or domain-expert users and understands how to build products that serve researchers, not just operators
• Has hired and developed principal or staff-level engineers, with a track record of raising the technical bar of a team over time

Skills

• Technically credible at the system design level: can evaluate architectural decisions, identify risk in complex designs, and contribute meaningfully to the hardest engineering conversations
• Leads through clarity: sets direction, makes decisions, and communicates tradeoffs without requiring repeated alignment
• Builds teams, not just products: knows how to hire exceptionally, develop senior talent, and create conditions where strong engineers stay and grow
• Fluent in AI-native ways of working and comfortable leading a team that uses tools like Claude Code as a core part of their engineering practice
• Writes with the same precision they expect from their engineers: strategy docs, architectural reviews, and hiring rubrics that don't require a follow-up meeting

Traits

• Strategic and hands-on at the same time: comfortable moving between organizational leadership and technical depth without losing credibility in either
• High standards without bureaucracy: holds the team to an exceptional bar without slowing them down with process for its own sake
• Founder-minded: attracted to ambiguity, motivated by impact, and able to build clarity from uncertainty rather than waiting for it to arrive
• Direct and decisive: makes calls with available information, owns the outcomes, and creates psychological safety for their team to do the same
• Multiplier, not bottleneck: earns trust by making the people around them better, not by centralizing decisions

Why Pioneering Intelligence?

• Lead a team of principal-level engineers where the work is genuinely hard and the people are genuinely exceptional
• Shape the technical strategy of an AI-native platform at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and life sciences
• Operate with the autonomy and organizational support to build the team and culture you believe in
• Work at the frontier of AI-augmented engineering, where the tools are state-of-the-art and the model of how software gets built is being reinvented
• Collaborate with visionary scientists, founders, and builders across Flagship's ecosystem
• Competitive compensation and benefits, including equity, commensurate with experience

About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

The salary range for this role is $313,000 - $400,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Pioneering Intelligence currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Pioneering Intelligence's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

Your Impact at LILA

Lila Sciences is seeking an Industrial Engineer to own and architect the physical layout of our AI Science Factories. In this role, you will be responsible for integrating lab instrumentation and robotics into a cohesive, efficient factory design. You will collaborate closely with hardware engineering, science teams, robotics, facilities, and operations to create layouts that are safe, scalable, and engineered for high-throughput autonomous research. This role is central to translating complex cross-functional requirements into a factory environment that enables Lila’s next-generation scientific capabilities. 

What You'll Be Building

• Own the end-to-end factory layout, including spatial planning, adjacency mapping, and utility requirements
• Integrate lab instrumentation layouts from diverse scientific and engineering domains into a unified, high-performance factory design.
• Collaborate with hardware, robotics, science, automation, safety, and facilities teams to incorporate requirements for utilities, safety, accessibility, maintenance, and environmental controls.
• Build and maintain accurate 2D and 3D CAD models of the full factory layout; drive version control and change management for layout updates.
• Work with robotic teams to run simulations and scenario analyses to assess throughput, operational efficiency, and bottlenecks.
• Partner with construction, facilities, and external vendors to ensure physical buildouts reflect the intended design and can scale with future demand.
• Develop standards, documentation, and layout guidelines for new lab instrumentation and factory expansions.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• BS/MS degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Experience designing factory, lab, or production layouts in high-complexity environments.
• Proficiency with CAD tools (e.g., AutoCAD, REVIT, SolidWorks).
• Strong understanding of workflow optimization, material flow, ergonomics, and spatial systems.
• Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary engineering and scientific teams.
• Clear communication and documentation skills.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with robotic or automated systems and their physical integration into facilities.
• Familiarity with lab/industrial utility requirements (HVAC, gases, power, chemicals, drainage).
• Experience in R&D facilities, pilot plants, or advanced automation environments.

Who We Are

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.  

What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.  

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. 

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

About the Role

The Information Security team has strong detection and response capability and a maturing compliance program. This is a greenfield opportunity to build Flagship’s cloud security and application security engineering practice in earnest — with the CISO and Director of Security Engineering as your strategic partners and a well-resourced program behind you. You’ll define how cloud posture management, SSDLC security, and cloud-side DLP get done at Flagship — in deep partnership with the Infrastructure & Operations team, who are your primary counterparts for cloud architecture, network, and endpoint infrastructure. What makes this role distinctive is the expectation that you’ll build AI-augmented workflows from the start — using LLMs and agentic tooling to handle the routine 80% so your expertise stays focused on the 20% that actually requires human judgment. If you want to own a practice area rather than execute someone else’s playbook, this is that role. You'll own the technical execution of cloud security and AppSec across Flagship and its portfolio, working directly with engineering teams to embed security into their pipelines, not just review them after the fact.

What You'll Own

• Cloud security posture management: own remediation execution against Wiz findings in close partnership with Infrastructure & Operations — building shared remediation playbooks, coordinating finding resolution across AWS environments, and ensuring security controls are implemented consistently with I&O’s infrastructure standards
• CI/CD and SSDLC security: design and implement security guardrails in engineering pipelines — SAST, secrets scanning, IaC security, container scanning — working directly with portfolio engineering teams, and building AI-powered pipeline security automation (e.g., LLM-assisted code review, automated fix suggestions for SAST findings) that reduces developer friction and scales security coverage beyond what manual review allows
• Cloud-side DLP enforcement: build and operationalize data loss prevention controls at the cloud and application layer, not just policy definition
• Cloud identity and access: own technical execution on Entra/Azure AD conditional access, BYOD policy enforcement, and cloud identity governance in partnership with Infrastructure & Operations, who manage the underlying directory and endpoint infrastructure
• Detection engineering (cloud layer): write and tune cloud-side detection rules and contribute to alert fidelity improvements in partnership with the SOC
• AI platform security: contribute to security architecture reviews and guardrail design for AI-powered portfolio products, including Bedrock and EKS-based platforms
• Serve as the embedded security engineering partner for portfolio company engineering teams — not a reviewer at the end of the process, but a collaborator throughout it
• Design and maintain AI-augmented workflows across all functional areas you own — using LLMs, agentic tooling, and automation to multiply your own capacity. You'll be expected to treat AI as a core part of your engineering toolkit, not an experiment: building prompt-driven triage pipelines, automating remediation drafting, and continuously identifying where human judgment is the bottleneck versus where it's being wasted on pattern-matchable work.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in cloud security, application security, or a closely related security engineering discipline
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS security services (Security Hub, GuardDuty, IAM, SCPs, CloudTrail) and cloud posture tooling — Wiz experience strongly preferred
• Practical AppSec experience: you've integrated SAST/DAST/SCA tooling into CI/CD pipelines and worked directly with developers to resolve findings, not just filed tickets
• Experience with cloud identity platforms — Entra ID / Azure AD, including conditional access policy design and enforcement
• Ability to write infrastructure-as-code and scripting to automate security controls (Python, Terraform, or equivalent), including comfort working with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agentic orchestration frameworks
• Demonstrated experience building AI-augmented security workflows — you've used LLMs, agentic frameworks, or AI-assisted tooling to automate security tasks at scale, not just experimented with ChatGPT. You should be able to articulate which security problems are well-suited to AI automation and which aren't.
• Strong enough communication skills to be credible with engineering leadership and portfolio company CTOs — you’ll be in technical design reviews, not just security reviews Proven ability to build trusted working relationships with Infrastructure & Operations teams — you approach I&O as a partner, not a gatekeeper, and can influence security outcomes through collaboration rather than mandate
• Comfort operating as a self-directed practitioner in a lean team; this role requires you to set your own execution priorities within a defined strategic direction

Nice to Have

• Experience securing ML/AI platforms — Bedrock, SageMaker, or comparable environments
• AWS Security Specialty, GWEB, OSCP, or equivalent certification
• Experience in a portfolio company or multi-entity security model
• Familiarity with HIPAA technical safeguard requirements and PHI data flows in cloud environments
• Experience designing or operating agentic AI workflows for security operations
• Container and Kubernetes security experience (EKS, image scanning, network policy)

Why This Role

This is a net-new capability role on a small team — you won't be executing someone else's existing playbook, you'll be building the cloud and AppSec program from a solid foundation. You’ll work directly with the CISO and collaborate closely with the Director of Security Engineering. Flagship's portfolio spans some of the most technically ambitious biology and AI work happening anywhere, and the security work reflects that complexity. If you want a role where the scope is real, the autonomy is genuine, and you have the freedom to build an AI-augmented security practice — this is it.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship. 

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto. 

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The salary range for this role is $148,000 - $203,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Flagship Pioneering's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

Company Summary:

Quotient Therapeutics is a privately-held, early stage company developing breakthrough medicines informed by natural somatic genetic diversity present in patients. Through our work in somatic genomics, we are forging a new status quo for biopharma research and development across a broad pipeline of internal and partnered programs. 

The company was founded by Flagship Pioneering, an innovative enterprise that conceives, creates, resources, and grows first-in-category life sciences companies. Flagship Pioneering has created over 100 groundbreaking companies over the past twenty years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Moderna (MRNA), Generate Biomedicines, Sana Biotechnology (SANA), Tessera Therapeutics, Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), Indigo Agriculture, Seres Therapeutics (MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS).

Position Summary:

We are seeking a mid-level Platform Engineer to help build, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure that underpins our genomics-first drug discovery platform.

This varied and challenging role is suited to someone with solid cloud and DevOps foundations who enjoys solving real-world problems and continuously improving systems. Working within the Data Infrastructure team, you will collaborate closely with biologists, informaticians, and software engineers to support data pipelines, applications, and AI/ML workflows used across the company.

You will take ownership of meaningful parts of the platform while continuing to grow your skills across cloud architecture, security, and data-intensive systems. This role offers exposure to complex scientific workloads and the opportunity to shape how a modern biotech platform is built.

This role is based at the Chesterford Research Campus (vicinity of Cambridge) and reports to the Head of Data Engineering. Applicants require permission to work in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate and improve our AWS-based platform across development and production environments.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (primarily CDK) for provisioning and managing cloud resources.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation used across engineering teams.
• Support and optimise our use of AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, Batch, ECS/EKS, and RDS.
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, alerting, and cost visibility.
• Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, pipelines, and applications, working closely with engineers and scientists.
• Collaborate with non-cloud experts to understand requirements and translate them into practical solutions.
• Contribute to improving security practices (IAM, access control, auditing) and overall platform reliability.

Requirements:

We are looking for someone who combines practical experience with strong learning ability and problem-solving skills.

• ~2–5 years of experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Experience writing code or scripts (Python, Bash, or similar) in a production or project setting.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and modern software engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of core cloud services (compute, storage, networking, IAM).
• Experience troubleshooting and improving production systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work through unfamiliar challenges.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with engineers, scientists, and other stakeholders.
• Familiarity with some of the following: Observability tooling (CloudWatch, Grafana). Cloud security best practices. Managing large datasets. Data pipelines or data engineering workflows. Scientific/imaging/analytical workloads. Genomics, biology, or data-driven science.

ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE Change the World list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company annual list of the World Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xLXBCqxk3LTk9pwcZf3CEkjif?domain=flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

ABOUT PIONEERING INTELLIGENCE

Pioneering Intelligence builds on Flagship Pioneering’s legacy of founding cutting-edge science and computational ventures, harnessing recent advances in AI, machine learning, and data to accelerate fundamental research and create a portfolio of AI-first companies. As part of Flagship’s integrated model of science, entrepreneurship, and capital, it transforms breakthrough ideas into world-changing companies, elevating the AI advances happening across the ecosystem in human health, sustainability, and beyond.

Position Summary 

We are seeking a Senior Front End Engineer. As a key contributor in this early-stage initiative, you will architect and implement the user experience for a new platform that leverages large language models (LLMs) and AI agents to enhance complex, high-stakes workflows. This is a user-first, AI-augmented product — your work will transform abstract reasoning tasks into intuitive, high-performance tools that empower experts across diverse research domains. You will lead front-end development and collaborate closely with engineers, AI scientists, product designers, and end users. This is a rare opportunity to shape a greenfield product at the intersection of usability, flexibility, and advanced reasoning. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Architect, develop, and maintain high-quality, testable front-end code and workflows aligned with complex scientific and analytical use cases. 
• Translate user stories, wireframes, and prototypes into production-ready features emphasizing clarity, maintainability, and reusability. 
• Implement responsive, accessible, and performant UIs optimized for data-rich, interactive workflows. 
• Ensure security, scalability, and observability of front-end services in cloud environments (AWS). 
• Design and implement user interfaces from scratch, combining strong visual design with robust engineering. 
• Create and maintain scalable, consistent, and visually appealing UI components using a modern React.js stack. 
• Maintain front-end quality through comprehensive testing and validation of user flows and interface behavior. 
• Develop and maintain test suites (unit, integration, and end-to-end) for UI reliability. 
• Apply DevOps/GitOps practices for automated testing, deployment, and monitoring. 
• Mentor engineers and scientists, driving technical quality and ensuring extensibility and performance across evolving use cases. 

Qualifications 

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, with 6+ years of professional software development experience. 
• Expertise with modern front-end frameworks and tools, including React.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Redux Toolkit, Playwright, and Shadcn. 
• Strong experience with Node.js. 
• Skilled in writing and maintaining comprehensive test suites (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress). 
• Experience with system design, performance optimization, observability, and operational excellence for parallel LLM workloads. 
• Strong intuition for UX design and a passion for building intuitive, workflow-first products. 
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset in fast-moving, cross-functional environments. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Background in scientific domains such as biology, chemistry, or complex systems (a plus, not required). 

Why Join Us 

By joining this initiative within Flagship’s Pioneering Intelligence group, you will: 

• Help define a new category of intelligent software tools for real-time human–AI collaboration. 
• Build a greenfield product at the intersection of usability, reasoning, and scientific innovation. 
• Collaborate with visionary thinkers and top-tier researchers across Flagship’s ecosystem. 
• Thrive in a supportive, mission-driven culture with access to world-class technical and operational resources. 
• Shape the future of AI-powered discovery in a role that combines engineering excellence with health impact. 

About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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The salary range for this role is $108,000 - $176,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Pioneering Intelligence currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Pioneering Intelligence's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Extuitive is a Flagship Pioneering–backed startup reimagining product innovation for the AI era. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs and direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands with AI-driven tools that simplify, accelerate, and scale the launch of new products. Based in Cambridge, MA, we operate like a special ops unit—fast-moving, data-driven, and relentlessly focused on impact.

THE ROLE

As a Principal Backend Engineer, you’ll be a technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and scaling the core backend systems that power our platform. You’ll drive the design of high-throughput services, resilient data pipelines, and integrations with mission-critical third-party providers. Working closely with product managers, designers, and engineering leadership, you’ll translate complex requirements into robust, elegant systems that support rapid growth. You’ll mentor engineers, influence long-term technical strategy, and help evolve our platform architecture to maintain security and reliability as we scale.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own Core Backend Systems – Design, build, and maintain scalable services, APIs, and platform infrastructure. Ensure reliability, observability, and maintainability.
• Drive Large-Scale Data Pipelines – Architect and operate high-volume, resilient data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and analytics.
• Lead Third-Party Integrations – Build and maintain integrations with external vendors, ensuring reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.
• Influence Architecture & Best Practices – Shape backend architecture, coding standards, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence.
• Mentor & Lead Engineers – Provide guidance on system design, debugging at scale, and engineering practices.
• Wear Multiple Hats – Support DevOps, troubleshooting, or other platform needs when necessary.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS 

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong expertise in backend languages and frameworks (Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Python, or similar).
• Experience designing scalable distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Deep experience with third-party integrations, REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, and rate-limited services.
• Proficiency with SQL/NoSQL databases, data pipelines, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and containerized/deployed systems (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong testing, CI/CD, and observability practices.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with minimal oversight.

Nice to Have 

• Experience building and shipping features quickly in early-stage startups.
• Exposure to multiple backend domains (analytics, payments, notifications, workflow orchestration).
• Hands-on experience with serverless or edge architectures for rapid iteration.
• Familiarity with low-friction integrations with third-party tools and SaaS platforms.
• Track record of scaling systems from small MVPs to production-ready services.
• Comfort with ambiguity and making trade-offs between speed, quality, and maintainability.

ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING:

Flagship Pioneering invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health, sustainability and beyond. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated more than 100 companies. Many of these companies have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we accept impossible missions to enable bigger leaps. Our core values guide us through uncertainty and toward lasting impact.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We recognize that great candidates often bring unique strengths without fulfilling every qualification. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your background and interest in Flagship.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

The salary range for this role is $152,000 - $209,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Extuitive, Inc. currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Extuitive, Inc.'s good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Therapeutics is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.

At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited, and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:

• We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable
• We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence
• We have a sense of urgency and persistence, and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference
• We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data
• We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness
• We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to strengthen and scale the AWS-based infrastructure that powers our products and teams. This role is about designing the backbone that accelerates our innovation and growth. You will take on complex engineering challenges, drive automation to make deployments faster and more reliable, and build resilient systems that empower our teams to deliver at scale.

Why join us? Here you will be at the center of real innovation, working with the latest cloud technologies, pushing the boundaries of automation, and creating state-of-the-art tools that enable our users and teams to do their best work. If you are passionate about building platforms that make a measurable difference and want to help shape the future of how we deliver technology, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC) or similar services from other cloud providers (GPC, Azure)
• Develop backend services and integration tooling to support critical systems
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
• Drive automation to ensure deployments are fast, reliable, and repeatable
• Ensure platform reliability with monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Sentry)
• Collaborate with team members across engineering to integrate and scale services
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis of infrastructure issues

What We Are Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Backend Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS services (ECS preferred)
• Advanced Python programming skills
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK and CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD automation and production systems
• Strong grasp of reliability, scalability, and security best practices
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS)
• Exposure to data/ML infrastructure and supporting advanced workloads

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

The salary range for this role is $108,000 - $176,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Montai Therapeutics currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Montai Therapeutics’s good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

What if… you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Montai Therapeutics is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company developing a platform for understanding and leveraging complex molecular interactions within organisms to solve global challenges in human health and sustainability. The company leverages a multidisciplinary approach that integrates tools ranging from machine learning and big data to multi-omics and high-throughput screening.

At Montai, we nurture a bold, spirited, and leading-edge culture dedicated to strengthening human health:

• We are one team with omnidirectional trust, empowered and accountable
• We are strong as individuals but stronger as a team and we are committed to excellence
• We have a sense of urgency and persistence, and we are crazily confident that we can make a difference
• We need to be comfortable with the uncomfortable and be rigorous and we recognize that failure is data
• We care for diversity in people, thought, personality, opinions, background and distinctiveness
• We have a sense of humor to help us manage through our strategic noise

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to strengthen and scale the AWS-based infrastructure that powers our products and teams. This role is about designing the backbone that accelerates our innovation and growth. You will take on complex engineering challenges, drive automation to make deployments faster and more reliable, and build resilient systems that empower our teams to deliver at scale.

Why join us? Here you will be at the center of real innovation, working with the latest cloud technologies, pushing the boundaries of automation, and creating state-of-the-art tools that enable our users and teams to do their best work. If you are passionate about building platforms that make a measurable difference and want to help shape the future of how we deliver technology, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure (ECS, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC) or similar services from other cloud providers (GPC, Azure)
• Develop backend services and integration tooling to support critical systems
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CodePipeline)
• Drive automation to ensure deployments are fast, reliable, and repeatable
• Ensure platform reliability with monitoring, logging, and alerting (CloudWatch, Sentry)
• Collaborate with team members across engineering to integrate and scale services
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis of infrastructure issues

What We Are Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Backend Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong hands-on expertise with AWS services (ECS preferred)
• Advanced Python programming skills
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK and CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD automation and production systems
• Strong grasp of reliability, scalability, and security best practices
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS)
• Exposure to data/ML infrastructure and supporting advanced workloads

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

The salary range for this role is $108,000 - $176,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Montai Therapeutics currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits. Compensation and benefits information is based on Montai Therapeutics’s good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future.

About the Role

• Serve as the lead electrical engineer responsible for the design, development, and integration of electronics for Nanopath’s diagnostic platform
• Own system-level electrical architecture, including PCB design, power management, signal integrity, and integration with embedded software and mechanical subsystems
• Design and develop circuits supporting motion control, fluid actuation, thermal management, and optical detection systems
• Lead bring-up, debugging, and validation of prototypes and production hardware
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (software, mechanical, systems, assay) to define requirements and ensure seamless system integration
• Develop and maintain documentation in compliance with ISO 13485

Technical Qualifications

• Strong experience in analog and digital circuit design, including mixed-signal systems
• Strong experience with embedded systems and microcontroller-based designs
• Proficiency in PCB design tools and schematic capture/layout best practices
• Background in designing systems with precise thermal control, motor control, fluidic actuation, or optical detection
• Experience developing hardware for medical devices regulated to ISO 13485 and IEC 61010
• Experience supporting hardware verification, validation, and troubleshooting through all development phases
• Exposure to manufacturing processes, including PCB fabrication, assembly, and test

General Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. electrical engineering or related technical discipline with at least 4 years of industry experience
• Ability to work on-site full-time in Cambridge, MA
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, highly organized with demonstrated curiosity, scientific rigor and creative problem-solving
• Proactive self-starter with eagerness to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
• Passion for technology translation and willingness to shape Nanopath’s future