Senior Director, Data Platform & AI Engineering

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 321,000; Full time

Job summary

GRAIL is seeking a visionary Director of Software Engineering to lead our Data Platform engineering organization in Sunnyvale, CA. You will drive technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of a cloud-native data platform that handles petabyte-scale datasets.

You will guide over 15 years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership, and collaborate with executives to translate complex requirements into scalable, compliant software solutions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, with leadership expertise.
• Experience interfacing with executive stakeholders to align engineering with business goals.
• Proven track record scaling large engineering teams and managing budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a multi-disciplinary global engineering organization.
• Own the technical roadmap and ensure on-time delivery of milestones.
• Champion Agile/Scrum and drive high software quality across teams.

Skills

15+ years

Engineering leadership

Executive stakeholder interfacing

Budget management

Education

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Snowflake

Databricks

LLM frameworks

Job description

GRAIL is seeking a visionary Director of Software Engineering to lead our Data Platform engineering organization in Sunnyvale, CA. You will drive technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of a cloud-native data platform that handles petabyte-scale datasets.

You will guide over 15 years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in leadership, and collaborate with executives to translate complex requirements into scalable, compliant software solutions.