Head of Platform
San Francisco, CA
Full Time
5 days ago
Senior Level
Over $120K

USD per year

Job Description

About the role

The Mission

Drug discovery has a translation problem: more than 95% of drugs that succeed in animal models fail in humans. We're building the alternative: human-first drug discovery, powered by organoids and AI, running on real human biology from the very first experiment. Our platform is 87% concordant with clinical patient data - a vast improvement over the 3% translational success rate of animals. We’ve demonstrated the ability to model immunotoxicology, immunogen stimulation, and two autoimmune diseases with more on the way. Numerous pharma partners including 3 Fortune 500 companies are already using the platform. We've raised ~$30M from AIX Ventures, Marc Benioff, Jeff Dean, and Y Combinator. With the FDA Modernization Act 3.0 and the FDA's March 2026 validation framework, the regulatory tailwinds only continue to get stronger. The opportunity ahead of the company is generational: build the first scaled engine for generating real human biological data, and use it to fundamentally change how medicines are discovered.

What you'll do

  • Design, prototype, and build fully autonomous workcells across the entire organoid lifecycle — seeding, culture maintenance, perturbation, harvest, and assay execution. You should have deep, credible experience in designing and deploying similar systems.
  • Own all mechanical engineering, robotics, and computer vision required to move the platform from discretely automated to fully end-to-end. You should have the academic credentials and work experience to think through and own the entire development roadmap of these workcells.
  • Evolve our internal orchestration software. We have an in-house tool that simulates automated experiments and runs workcells today. You'll grow it into a system that designs and executes experiments in an equipment-agnostic way,...
How to Apply
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