Platform Engineering Lead | AI Infra

The role

Technical lead and manager for compute, data, AI, and security infrastructure. You will own core services for lab device orchestration, build cloud infrastructure for sequencing data, and design infrastructure for bioinformatics tasks and AI agentic systems.

What you will do

• Own core services that orchestrate lab devices and the data ingestion pipeline
• Build cloud infrastructure and data pipelines to house, process, and deliver terabytes of sequencing data
• Design infrastructure to orchestrate millions of bioinformatics tasks
• Build AI infrastructure and internal tooling to enable agentic systems

Required qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics or technical subject
• 7+ years of industry experience (or equivalent)
• Prior experience leading projects and mentoring engineers (people or technical leadership)
• Experience building LLM/agent systems (tooling, evaluation, safety/permissions, prompt + workflow design)
• Primarily developing with coding agents in all parts of software lifecycle - design, implementation, test, review
• Strong experience with REST API best practices (such as OpenAPI) and service-oriented architectures
• Strong experience with SQL and data modeling in relational databases (postgres)
• Strong experience with Python backend services (e.g., Flask/Django/FastAPI)
• Strong experience working in AWS for containerized task orchestration (Lambda, ECS, Batch, StepFunctions)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, like Terraform or AWS CDK
• Experience building distributed systems with task queues (such as Celery and SQS)
• Experience working with Linux servers (systemd services, basic networking, application deployment tools like ansible)

About the company

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists. They provide sequencing services used by innovators, including Nobel laureates and Fortune 100 pharma.