Engineering Manager, BenchSci
Infrastructure
+ Equity
AI usage for efficient biomedical research
Job no longer available
AI usage for efficient biomedical research
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research by empowering scientists with the world's most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 4-5 years of experience in a similar role in a SaaS or similar industry
- A track record of planning and executing large, complex, organization-wide migrations
- Experience developing, maintaining, and scaling CI/CD pipelines
- Experience developing, maintaining, and scaling build tools for supporting large monorepo codebases and service-oriented architectures
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code solutions such as Terraform or KCC
- A deep understanding of containerization, and extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Expert knowledge of observability tools and techniques in a cloud-native environment
- Experience tracking, maintaining, and improving reliability-related SLOs
- A deep understanding of Python, Javascript, or similar programming languages
- In-depth experience with GCP is ideal
- Experience as a People Manager is a must
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager, Infrastructure to join our Platform Infrastructure Group
- Reporting to the Sr. Engineering Director, you will work closely with key technical partners across the organization to ensure that BenchSci’s development tooling, cloud infrastructure, and engineering practices can support our long-term growth, you will provide technical leadership across several areas within the team, lead complex projects, participate in roadmap and project planning, and actively contribute to BenchSci's technical roadmap
- Identify parts of our system and codebases that do not scale or meet reliability, performance, observability, and security requirements
- Work with the infrastructure and CI/CD teams to drive high-quality designs to improve and scale our infrastructure provisioning and CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate closely with the security and GRC teams to ensure that our cloud configuration has adequate security controls, and meets contractual and compliance requirements
- Develop and exercise disaster recovery plans and improve those capabilities
- Partner with various engineering teams and identify opportunities to improve our development tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure
- Partner closely with other Staff Engineers, Engineering Managers, and Directors to devise and refine requirements to create development tooling, and build systems and services that accelerate the velocity of our engineers
- Lead software and system design initiatives by leveraging cloud-native design patterns and injecting your cloud expertise into the entire development lifecycle
Our take
Over the past decade, the cost of bringing a drug to market has increased exponentially while the number of drugs approved has stayed stagnant, leading to a decline in research productivity. Through development of AI-assisted software, BenchSci has allowed scientists to rapidly compute data from scientific journals and product catalogues to dramatically reduce these inefficiencies in the R&D process.
The company offers a lateral solution to traditional, manual data analysis to allow for data leveraging and an automated, comprehensive overview of existing relevant research. These methods have made BenchSci a forerunner in the drug development industry; the company's software is used by leading pharmaceutical companies.
BenchSci continually invests in its machine learning technology, and in January 2023 announced the launch of ASCEND, software that extracts experimental evidence from internal and external sources to create commercially available maps of disease biologies, improving the hit rate of drug trials.
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Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2023
$70.1m
SERIES D
Jan 2022
$46.5m
SERIES C
Total funding: $161.7m
Company benefits
- An engaging remote-first culture that hires the best talent from around the world
- A competitive compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits with an emphasis on mental health
- An annual Executive Health Assessment at Medcan for proactive health awareness
- Three weeks of vacation plus an additional day for every completed year
- A $2000 Annual Learning & Development budget
- Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options
- Additional time-off: 2 weeks for Winter Holiday, every other Friday in July and August, your birthday, and more!
- A $1000 work from home allowance to make your home setup perfect for you
- An Oculus Quest 2 to connect with your team members in Virtual Reality
- An executive coach for managers to assist in leading high-performing teams
- Complimentary Headspace account to support mental wellness and focus
- Complimentary genome sequencing from 23andMe to better understand your health through your DNA
Company values
- Focused advancement
- Speed
- Tenacity
- Transparency
Company HQ
South Core, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Dr. Elvis Wianda
(Chief Data Officer)Obtained a PhD studying Health & Medical Physics at the University of Toronto before joining BenchSci.
Dr. Tom Leung
(CSO)Previously held roles within the University of Toronto as a Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Fellow.
Liran Belenzon
(CEO)Previously co-founded and held role as CEO at companies including Standy and Biz-Coupon. Currently a CDL Associate at Creative Destruction Lab.
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Diversity & Inclusion at BenchSci
- Foundational DEI workshops around anti-bias, empathy, allyship, microaggressions, and discrimination
- Inclusive leadership training for all managers and open to all team members
- Inclusive hiring training for hiring managers and recruiters
- A centralized resource of information that promotes inclusivity
- Company-wide access to Crescendo to equip team members with customized learning paths that are tailored to their current knowledge levels
- Acknowledging and celebrating important and commemorative dates
- Building a group of DEI sponsors to support and encourage company-wide engagement around DEI conversations
- Holding DEI “Office Hours” for supporting individuals and teams who have questions or are seeking support with how to embed DEI into their work
- Restructuring our recruitment processes to ensure we are mitigating bias at every step of the hiring process
- Launching BenchSci Forward, our platform for change focused on the advancement of social issues such as diversity in STEM, mental health, and climate change
- Providing flexible parental leave, with the option of 75% top-ups for 20 weeks or 15 designated Parental Leave Days
- Providing mental health benefits for all team members, including mental wellness coverage up to $2,500, personalized executive coaching, regular mindfulness sessions, and extra vacation time
- Conducting a pay fairness analysis to ensure our compensation practices are equitable
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