Head of Software Engineering

The role

You will lead a small technical engineering team to build software infrastructure for an automated lab. You will act as a player-coach by shipping code and owning the engineering roadmap and technical direction.

What you will do

• Owning the engineering roadmap
• Setting technical direction and architecture across frontend, backend, data pipelines, and lab-hardware integration
• Shipping code on high-leverage problems
• Hiring, growing, and setting the bar for a team
• Building AI-assisted development practices

Required qualifications

• Shipped production software for years
• Hired, managed, and developed engineers at least once before in a startup or high-growth environment
• Owned or significantly shaped an engineering roadmap
• Make architectural decisions across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure
• Build with AI agents and coding tools
• High-autonomy, founder mindset

Nice to have

• A genuine interest in biology

About the company

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. It is a fast growing biotech company trusted by biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and techbio companies.