Senior Director, Scientific Cloud & AI Infrastructure

Pioneering Medicines; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Stock options

Job summary

Flagship Pioneering’s Scientific Cloud Engineering team seeks a Director to lead cloud and computational infrastructure across the portfolio. The role combines deep cloud architecture with biotech computing demands, spanning genomics workflows, HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, and containerized pipelines.

You will guide a growing team, partner across IT and science groups, and establish reusable infrastructure patterns that scale with multiple ventures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud engineering or DevOps with leadership experience
• Experience with AWS (preferred) and/or Azure
• Infrastructure-as-code: Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation
• CI/CD automation: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
• Biotech or life sciences computing experience
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a growing team of cloud engineers (DevOps, bioinformatics)
• Define team roadmap, resource planning, and hiring strategy as the portfolio scales
• Architect scalable, secure, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure
• Develop reusable IaC modules and containerized templates for portfolio companies
• Partner with IO&A to implement governance, IAM, networking, and security standards
• Support and accelerate AI/ML infrastructure, model training, and data platforms
• Collaborate with data, lab systems, and research systems teams to meet science needs

Job description

Flagship Pioneering’s Scientific Cloud Engineering team seeks a Director to lead cloud and computational infrastructure across the portfolio. The role combines deep cloud architecture with biotech computing demands, spanning genomics workflows, HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, and containerized pipelines.

You will guide a growing team, partner across IT and science groups, and establish reusable infrastructure patterns that scale with multiple ventures.