Genesis Molecular AI

Genesis Molecular AI

Engineering Manager, Product Engineering Team

San Mateo, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentCloud PlatformsMachine LearningAgentic AIProduct ManagementProduct StrategyPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • This is a leadership role that combines people management, technical leadership, product partnership, and hands-on contribution.
  • 20% of your time will be dedicated to recruiting and organizational growth
  • 20% to roadmap management and cross-functional planning

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership on system architecture, platform design, scalability, reliability, and engineering best practices.
  • Act as a hands-on technical leader, contributing directly through software development, architecture, design reviews, technical strategy, and critical engineering initiatives.
  • Drive delivery of user-facing features and platform capabilities that accelerate molecular design and drug discovery workflows.
  • Lead complex technical investigations and help unblock the team on high-impact architectural and implementation challenges.
  • Drive prioritization and planning processes that align engineering investments with company objectives.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand user needs and translate them into impactful product experiences.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computational Chemistry, or a related technical field.
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years in an engineering leadership or people management role.
  • Experience leading cross-functional product engineering teams delivering customer-facing software products.
  • Demonstrated ability to remain technically hands-on, including writing and shipping production code, while managing and growing engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance technical excellence with pragmatic execution and business outcomes.
  • Strong technical background in modern software architecture, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack application development.
  • Experience partnering closely with Product Management and Design to define roadmaps, prioritize features, and deliver impactful user experiences.
  • Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers across different levels of seniority.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, machine learning, and scientific teams.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders.
  • Interest in applying technology to scientific discovery and willingness to learn the drug discovery domain.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with modern frontend frameworks, backend services, cloud-native architectures, and AI-enabled applications.
  • Familiarity with drug discovery, molecular modeling, cheminformatics, computational chemistry, or related scientific domains.
  • Experience scaling engineering organizations, processes, and technical platforms through periods of rapid growth.
  • Track record of delivering complex products from concept through launch and adoption.
  • About Genesis Molecular AI
  • Genesis is backed by premier AI and life science investors, including a16z, NVIDIA, Rock Springs Capital, Menlo Ventures, T.
  • Rowe Price, Fidelity, and Radical Ventures.
  • Genesis is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with a fully integrated laboratory in San Diego.

Benefits

  • Partner with machine learning and scientific teams to integrate advanced AI capabilities into product workflows.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Machine Learning, and Scientific teams to define product strategy, roadmap priorities, and execution plans.

Company info

  • Genesis Molecular AI is building an agentic IDE for drug discovery-a platform that helps scientists explore, design, and optimize molecules with the assistance of cutting-edge AI.
  • Our Product Engineering Team sits at the intersection of software engineering, AI, and computational chemistry.
  • The team includes frontend and backend software engineers, computational chemists, and product-minded technical contributors working together to create intuitive, powerful tools that accelerate scientific discovery.
  • We are looking for leaders who are excited about building exceptional products in a highly interdisciplinary environment.
  • You will collaborate with world-class chemists, biologists, machine learning researchers, and engineers to create software that transforms how medicines are discovered.

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