The Company

Flagship Labs 97, Inc. (FL97) is privately held, early-stage biotechnology pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to transform all aspects of the scientific method. FL97 is backed by Flagship Pioneering, which brings the courage, long-term vision, and resources needed to realize unreasonable results.

FL97 is at the forefront of advancing AI-driven science, molecular design, and lab automation. Join our mission-driven team and contribute to the future of biotech.

The Role

FL97 is seeking a visionary, experienced, and dynamic Informatics Platform Lead to build our data platform. You will be at the helm of an agile, cross-functional team. Your hands-on leadership will guide and contribute to the innovation, development, and management of back-end services, ML model inference, and LIMS databases, as well as creating and integrating AI-enabled toolchains and data pipelines for AI-powered lab.

Your collaboration with biologists, machine learning scientists, automation engineers, and other stakeholders will be instrumental in automating and optimizing AI-driven processes across our diverse and impactful applications. As a seasoned leader, you will also drive the alignment of technology strategy with the company’s mission, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the informatics strategy, ensuring alignment with our unique mission and fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
• Technology Ownership: Oversee the design, build, and management of back-end services, LIMS databases, and AI-enabled tools that support scientific workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the liaison between engineers, scientists, and business stakeholders, translating complex workflows into digital automation and ensuring successful project delivery.
• Team Development and Mentorship: Build, mentor, and lead high-performing engineering teams, promoting professional development and maintaining a collaborative and positive environment.
• Quality Assurance & Best Practices: Implement and uphold rigorous testing, documentation, CI/CD procedures, and adherence to industry standards.

Qualifications:

• Degree: PhD or master's degree in computer science, engineering, physics, or a related field.
• Experience: 10 years of industry experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role within the biotech or life sciences industry.
• Technical Expertise: Proven experience in software/data engineering, particularly in lab informatics, including deep understanding of databases, programming, software development best practices, and AI/ML.
• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams, with a track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• Agile Mastery: In-depth understanding of Agile development methodologies, test-driven development, and CI/CD.
• Language Proficiency: Expertise in Python for both data science and production infrastructure settings, with a solid understanding of other relevant languages and technologies.
• Business Acumen: Ability to align technical strategy with business goals, leveraging your extensive toolbox of mental models.

More About Flagship Pioneering

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life science platform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has, through its Flagship Labs unit, applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $100 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship has deployed over $3.1 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. The current Flagship ecosystem comprises transformative companies, including Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: SANA), Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), Axcella Health (NASDAQ: AXLA), Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Foghorn Therapeutics (NASDAQ: FHTX), Indigo Ag, Generate Biomedicines, Tessera Tx, and others.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.