TetraScience is a Scientific Data and AI company with a mission to radically improve and extend human life. TetraScience combines the world's only open, purpose-built, and collaborative scientific data and AI cloud with deep scientific expertise across the value chain to accelerate and improve scientific outcomes. TetraScience is catalyzing the Scientific AI revolution by designing and industrializing AI-native scientific data sets, which it brings to life in a growing suite of next generation lab data management products, scientific use cases, and AI-based outcomes

Our core values are designed to guide our behaviors, actions, and decisions such that we operate as one. We are looking to add high-performance team members that authentically and unconditionally embrace our values:

• Transparency and Context - We trust our people will make the right decisions and overcome any challenges when given data and context.
• Trust and Collaboration - We believe there can only be trust when there is transparency. We are committed to always communicating openly and honestly.
• Fearlessness and Resilience - We proactively run toward challenges of all types. We embrace uncertainty and we take calculated risks.
• Alignment with Customers - We are completely committed to ensuring our customers and partners achieve their missions and treat them with respect and humility.
• Commitment to Craft - We are passionate missionaries. We sweat the details, as the small things enable the big things.
• Equality of Opportunity - We seek out the best of the best regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, or age; We seek out those who embody our common values but bring unique and invaluable perspectives, talents, and advantages.

What You Will Do

You will be leading a team of Scientific Data Engineers (SDE) and helping build Tetra Data and productizable solutions, which is the foundation of the Data Engineering layer. We are looking for a data engineering leader who is experienced, hands-on, and can also provide mentorship to junior team members. As a tech lead/manager, you should be comfortable managing engineering tasks, leading internal design sessions, implementing solutions, and driving projects to final production releases. You will work directly with cross-functional teams like Product Managers, Scientific Business Analysts, and Solution Architects to gather business and data design objectives, resulting in production-based solutions. You will be a team-focused leader, have excellent data engineering skills, supervise and collaborate on project executions, and have a high commitment to customer success by delivering mission-critical implementations.

Our success is defined by collaboration. You will have tremendous support to achieve your objectives, from a variety of teams, both internal and external.

• Manage a team of SDEs. Supervise their career growth and performance.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, gather insight into potential positive outcomes, recommend potential outcomes, and build a solution based on consensus.
• Take ownership of building data models, prototypes, and solutions that drive customer success.
• Use LLM to build comprehensive data schemas and parsers for pre-clinical data (main data sources: R&D lab instruments, manufacturing, CRO, CDMO, ELN, LIMS) with various data formats: .xlsx, .pdf, .txt, .raw, .fid, many other vendor binaries
• Extract reusable schema components and parsing functions, and productize them into Python libraries
• Build high-quality data pipelines with full unit test and integration test coverage to produce high-fidelity data
• Build data applications, reports, and dashboards using React, Streamlit, Jupyter notebook, etc.
• Drive value for the customers - verify the solution fulfills their requirements and provides value
• Quality gatekeeper: design with quality backed by unit tests, integration tests, and utility functions.
• Promote team-wide process/technology improvements on product quality and developer experience
• Rally the team to finish Agile Sprint commitments. Actively surfacing team inefficiencies and striving to resolve them.
• Driven by results. Have the pragmatic urgency to resolve blockers, unclear requirements, and make things happen.

Requirements

• 10+ years of building solutions as a Data Engineer or similar fields
• 10+ years working in Python and SQL with a focus on data
• Experience manaing engineering teams with five or more direct reports.
• Experience leading projects, managing requirements, and handling timelines
• Experience managing multiple customer-focused implementation projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes, and managing delivery milestones
• Experience with data plotting dashboarding tools like React and/or Streamlit is strongly preferred
• Experience working with pre-clinical data and lab scientists is strongly preferred
• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to take control of project delivery.
• Quickly understand a highly technical product and effectively communicate with product management and engineering.

Benefits

100% employer paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.

401K.

Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

Company paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

The salary range for this position is $180K-$230K USD. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship