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You will lead a multidisciplinary team that creates new ways to generate biological insight, bringing together physical engineering, biology, computation, and AI to accelerate the development of protein therapeutics.\nThis role combines technical vision, people leadership, and the practical work of building. You will identify opportunities where engineering can open new scientific territory, develop a compelling direction, and help a talented team turn ambitious ideas into working capabilities. These could include bespoke instruments, new measurement technologies, microfluidic systems, robotics, and experimental platforms that connect directly with computational design.\nWe are looking for someone with the imagination to see what could be possible, the technical judgment to choose a path, and the ability to inspire people to build it together.\nWho will love this job:\nYou think across disciplines. You enjoy connecting ideas from different fields and bringing engineers and scientists together to solve problems that require several kinds of expertise.\nYou love building teams as much as building technology. You develop people, encourage independent thinking, and create an environment where specialists challenge and strengthen each other’s ideas.\nYou have a vision and want to make it tangible. You can articulate an exciting technical direction, inspire others to pursue it, and stay engaged through prototypes, setbacks, and deployment.\nYou are an engineer at heart. You enjoy understanding how things work, debating design choices, and helping a team work through difficult technical problems.\nYou are drawn to the frontier. Questions without established solutions energize you. You seek opportunities to invent new capabilities and exercise judgment about which ideas deserve investment.\nYou want your innovations to matter. You are curious about biology and motivated by seeing the technologies you build enable scientific discoveries and better medicines.\nHere's how you will contribute:\nSet an ambitious, scientifically grounded engineering vision in partnership with leaders across experimental biology, computation, and machine learning.\nLead and develop a team spanning hardware, optics, microfluidics, robotics, automation, and software.\nIdentify experimental bottlenecks and opportunities where new instruments or methods could change what we can measure, test, or learn.\nGuide development from early technical exploration through robust systems that scientists use.\nShape how AI agents, robotics, and experimental systems work together to support increasingly autonomous science.\nBalance exploratory innovation with delivery against urgent platform and therapeutic program needs.\nBuild a culture of intellectual curiosity, candid technical discussion, rapid prototyping, and engineering rigor.\nThe Ideal Candidate will have:\nA track record of conceiving and delivering novel instruments, experimental technologies, or complex physical systems.\nDeep expertise in a physical engineering discipline, with the breadth to guide technical decisions across specialties.\nDemonstrated success managing and developing technical teams, including multidisciplinary collaboration.\nThe ability to translate an open-ended scientific challenge into an engineering strategy and inspire a team around it.\nExperience in biotechnology, biomedical technology, or therapeutics, with curiosity about the biological questions behind the engineering.\nTypically 10+ years of relevant experience and an advanced degree in engineering, applied physics, or a related field, or equivalent research and industry experience.\nExperience in microfabrication, microfluidics, optics, or robotic system development would be particularly valuable.\nAbout Generate:Biomedicines\nWe are a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. We are advancing a new approach to drug creation-one grounded in the ability to design proteins with defined biological intent. By integrating machine learning with large-scale experimentation, this approach aims to reduce the uncertainty, time, and cost associated with developing protein-based medicines.\nFounded in 2018, we are advancing a growing pipeline of clinical and preclinical programs across multiple disease areas and protein modalities. By unifying computational design and clinical development within a single operating model, we translate this approach into clinical-stage programs and are leading a shift from traditional drug discovery toward systematic drug generation.\nAt Generate:Biomedicines, we collaborate across disciplines in new ways to invent and innovate. We bring diverse perspectives to a shared goal of delivering better medicines to patients in need, faster, guided by our values and leadership behaviors.\nGenerate:Biomedicines is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.\nRecruitment & Staffing Agencies: Generate:Biomedicines does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Generate:Biomedicines or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Company’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Generate:Biomedicines and the Company will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.\nCompensation: The base salary range provided reflects our current estimate of what we anticipate paying for this position. Your actual base salary will be based on several factors, including job-related skills, experience, internal equity, relevant education or training, and market dynamics. 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