Director of Engineering, AI Infra & Production

GenBio AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 280,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

GenBio AI in Palo Alto is seeking a highly execution-oriented Director of Engineering to translate long-term research into production-grade systems. You will drive roadmaps, enforce timelines, and lead a growing team of engineers across product and infrastructure.

As a hands-on leader, you will write code, review PRs, mentor engineers, and shape an ambitious AI platform that scales generative models and MLOps pipelines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in senior leadership roles.
• Hands-on engineering leader with ability to write code and review PRs.
• Experience scaling high-performing teams and shipping production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Translate vision into concrete engineering roadmaps and timelines.
• Contribute hands-on code, review PRs, and set technical standards.
• Bridge research and engineering to production, scalable architectures.
• Institute rigorous testing, CI/CD, and strong developer experience.
• Mentor and develop engineers, providing coaching and feedback.
• Align execution with executive and research leads to meet business goals.

Skills

Leadership

AI infrastructure

Production systems

GPU optimization

Cross-functional

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

GenBio AI in Palo Alto is seeking a highly execution-oriented Director of Engineering to translate long-term research into production-grade systems. You will drive roadmaps, enforce timelines, and lead a growing team of engineers across product and infrastructure.

As a hands-on leader, you will write code, review PRs, mentor engineers, and shape an ambitious AI platform that scales generative models and MLOps pipelines.