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Engineering Manager | Terra Platform

Manifold · Cambridge, MA · On-site

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About Manifold

Manifold provides autonomous warehouse robots for picking, loading, unloading, and palletizing, priced by the pick. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Manifold is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Terra Platform team. Terra is the open-source, cloud-native platform for biomedical research originally built at the Broad Institute and now powered by Manifold. It supports 65,000 registered users across 50 countries, securely hosts 80+ petabytes of NIH data, and underpins some of the highest-impact science in the world. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Own operational excellence for a platform that thousands of researchers depend on, including on-call rotations, incident triage, and risk mitigation initiatives
  • Partner with Product Management to define and deliver against a prioritized roadmap, balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders while also paying down operational debt
  • Partner with principal engineers on technical solutions, including architectural choices, design / code reviews, and individual code contributions
  • Manage a full-stack engineering team (including contractors) via 1:1s, growing top performers, identifying gaps, and hiring
  • Understand and clearly communicate Terra's role and how it contributes to Manifold's business strategy, including our commitments to the Broad and the NIH-funded community
  • Evolve how the team builds, including tools, libraries, and processes, and bring an AI-native mindset to the team
More about this role

Manifold is the AI platform for life sciences, accelerating life-changing medicines to patients. Our products speed up workflows in areas from target identification and clinical development to market access and precision medicine in the clinic, while maintaining the governance life sciences requires. Global companies and premier research institutions use Manifold to operate faster and more effectively. Backed by leading investors including Reach Capital, TQ Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, SilverArc Capital, and Industry Ventures, Manifold serves tens of thousands of users across hundreds of organizations globally.

Manifold is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Terra Platform team. Terra is the open-source, cloud-native platform for biomedical research originally built at the Broad Institute and now powered by Manifold. It supports 65,000 registered users across 50 countries, securely hosts 80+ petabytes of NIH data, and underpins some of the highest-impact science in the world.

As Engineering Manager, you will lead the team that owns Terra day-to-day operations as well as delivering against a targeted feature roadmap. Operational responsibilities include service...

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