Director/ Senior Director, Research Engineering

The role

You will lead a multidisciplinary team to create new ways to generate biological insight. This involves bringing together physical engineering, biology, computation, and AI to accelerate protein therapeutics development.

What you will do

• Set an ambitious, scientifically grounded engineering vision in partnership with leaders.
• Lead and develop a team spanning hardware, optics, microfluidics, robotics, automation, and software.
• Identify experimental bottlenecks and opportunities for new instruments or methods.
• Guide development from early technical exploration through robust systems.
• Shape how AI agents, robotics, and experimental systems work together.
• Balance exploratory innovation with delivery against platform and therapeutic program needs.
• Build a culture of intellectual curiosity, candid technical discussion, rapid prototyping, and engineering rigor.

Required qualifications

• Track record of conceiving and delivering novel instruments, experimental technologies, or complex physical systems.
• Deep expertise in a physical engineering discipline.
• Demonstrated success managing and developing technical teams.
• Ability to translate an open-ended scientific challenge into an engineering strategy.
• Experience in biotechnology, biomedical technology, or therapeutics.
• Typically 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Advanced degree in engineering, applied physics, or a related field, or equivalent research and industry experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in microfabrication, microfluidics, optics, or robotic system development

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation
• Competitive benefits package

About the company

Generate:Biomedicines is a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. The company integrates machine learning with large-scale experimentation to design proteins with defined biological intent.