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Our AI-powered platform enables researchers and decision-makers to discover and interpret evidence from millions of scientific publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, and other complex data sources in minutes.\nWe are building the world’s most advanced biomedical knowledge platform, powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph and GenAI capabilities. Our technology is already used by leading biopharmaceutical organizations to accelerate drug discovery, improve safety, and drive better decision-making.\nBacked by top-tier investors including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech, and Marathon, we are scaling rapidly and expanding our product suite and market presence.\nLeading the engineering organisation responsible for our agentic research product and customer-facing applications. 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Understand the problems our customers' scientists are solving, check that what we ship gets used and makes a difference, and change or stop what doesn't.\n\nQuality and reliability: own the quality, security and operational health of what your teams ship, from release practice to incident response.\n\nPeople and culture: manage and coach engineering managers, build a strong management layer, own the hiring plan, and be accountable for the culture across your org.\n\nAI-first engineering: drive AI-first workflows across all your teams, invest in reusable tooling and enablement, and set standards and ROI targets for how we build with agents, from planning to code review to release.\n\nPartnership: work with VPs and Product leadership on what we build, and with Data, DevOps and Security on how it fits together; represent engineering externally in hiring.\n\nYour impact is department-wide: you'll be part of the engineering leadership team, help shape engineering-wide decisions, and step in to lead engineering when needed.\nWhat success looks like\nTeams plan on real capacity with Product and deliver predictably, in small increments.\n\nEvery area has a clear owner, and teams are shaped around clear mandates.\n\nAI-first engineering is how the whole function works: from planning to automated testing, review and release.\n\nYour engineering managers grow, and the teams become a place strong engineers want to join and stay.\n\nTeams judge success by the value customers get, not the number of features shipped, and customers notice the difference release after release.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nYou'll need\n10+ years in software engineering and 4+ years leading engineering managers, ideally in a scale-up environment.\n\nA track record of predictable delivery: planning on real capacity, limiting work in progress, and saying no or making trade-offs with Product.\n\nA customer-first mindset: you measure your teams by the value they deliver, not the features they ship, and you bring engineers close to the customers they build for.\n\nReal experience leading teams that build with AI coding agents (Claude Code or similar), including how review, testing and quality change when agents write most of the code.\n\nExperience leading distributed teams across countries and time zones.\n\nClear, direct communication with engineers, product leaders and executives.\n\nHow we'll assess you\nLeadership: broad engineering leadership across several sub-domains; a strategic thinker who can judge direction for areas you don't personally know in depth.\n\nAI fluency: you already embed AI in how your teams work, and you can take it to the next level for a whole function: AI-first workflows across teams, shared tooling, clear standards and measurable return.\n\nNice to have\nExperience leading teams that ship LLM, ML or other AI-powered features to production, with enough technical depth to challenge architecture and quality decisions.\n\nLife sciences, biomedical data or B2B SaaS for enterprise customers.\n\nHands-on experience building agentic systems (multi-step agents, tool use, evaluation).\n\nWe are on a mission to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for ALL humankind, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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