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Medra At Medra, our mission is to combine robotics, AI, and biology to eradicate disease. We are building an Embodied Lab AI platform that helps scientists scale their lab work and generate orders of magnitude more data than before, whether to bring a new life-saving drug to the clinic or to train a ground-breaking biology foundation model. Our team has experts in robotics, foundation models, and LLMs. We believe that a small team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things. We are based in the Mission district of San Francisco, fully in-person. Role As Head of Engineering at Medra, youll be leading the engineering org during an exciting phase of scaling customer deployments and fast-paced product development. Youll report to the CEO and be a core part of the executive team, helping shape the direction of the company. Your mission As Head of Engineering, you'll drive three key areas: 1) Engineering excellence across domains Lead our technical vision and execution. While your main expertise is in software, you will oversee diverse technical domains for product development: user interface, infrastructure, robotics software, and hardware. You are able to translate ambiguity into clear technical plans, scoping the smallest viable solution, testing fast, and iterating relentlessly. 2) Strategic leadership & product partnership You will partner with the CEO to shape our company direction. You will meet with our customers to understand their needs and work closely with our CEO to develop our strategic product roadmap. 3) Team growth Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization. We are working on cutting edge technology in robotics and agentic AI, so you will hire some of the most technical talent in very competitive industries. You are able to build a durable culture of psychological safety, high ownership, and constant feedback for growthpeople feel supported and challenged. Who you are We're looking for someone who combines technical excellence with strong leadership abilities and strategic thinking. The ideal candidate will be excited about building both great products and great teams, with a passion for building for the physical world. Must have: Experience leading, managing, and building high-caliber engineering teams, and want to lead from the front Strong technical background in software engineering. Can roll up sleeves to program in Python if necessary. Past experience shipping software on hardware (e.g. robotics, self-driving car, AR, IoT, microcontrollers, etc). Understanding of the AI landscape (in particular vision language models, agentic LLM models, and developer productivity tools) Strong product intuition and strategic thinking Ability to create clarity and ship in a rapidly shifting ambiguous environment Experience building at early stage Nice to have: Expertise in robotics and/or hardware Experience with fine-tuning and deploying AI models History of successful collaboration or co-development with external customers Medra is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Medra and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply! Seniority level
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Medra At Medra, our mission is to combine robotics, AI, and biology to eradicate disease. We are building an Embodied Lab AI platform that helps scientists scale their lab work and generate orders of magnitude more data than before, whether to bring a new life-saving drug to the clinic or to train a ground-breaking biology foundation model. Our team has experts in robotics, foundation models, and LLMs. We believe that a small team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things. We are based in the Mission district of San Francisco, fully in-person. Role As Head of Engineering at Medra, youll be leading the engineering org during an exciting phase of scaling customer deployments and fast-paced product development. Youll report to the CEO and be a core part of the executive team, helping shape the direction of the company. Your mission As Head of Engineering, you'll drive three key areas: 1) Engineering excellence across domains Lead our technical vision and execution. While your main expertise is in software, you will oversee diverse technical domains for product development: user interface, infrastructure, robotics software, and hardware. You are able to translate ambiguity into clear technical plans, scoping the smallest viable solution, testing fast, and iterating relentlessly. 2) Strategic leadership & product partnership You will partner with the CEO to shape our company direction. You will meet with our customers to understand their needs and work closely with our CEO to develop our strategic product roadmap. 3) Team growth Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization. We are working on cutting edge technology in robotics and agentic AI, so you will hire some of the most technical talent in very competitive industries. You are able to build a durable culture of psychological safety, high ownership, and constant feedback for growthpeople feel supported and challenged. Who you are We're looking for someone who combines technical excellence with strong leadership abilities and strategic thinking. The ideal candidate will be excited about building both great products and great teams, with a passion for building for the physical world. Must have: Experience leading, managing, and building high-caliber engineering teams, and want to lead from the front Strong technical background in software engineering. Can roll up sleeves to program in Python if necessary. Past experience shipping software on hardware (e.g. robotics, self-driving car, AR, IoT, microcontrollers, etc). Understanding of the AI landscape (in particular vision language models, agentic LLM models, and developer productivity tools) Strong product intuition and strategic thinking Ability to create clarity and ship in a rapidly shifting ambiguous environment Experience building at early stage Nice to have: Expertise in robotics and/or hardware Experience with fine-tuning and deploying AI models History of successful collaboration or co-development with external customers Medra is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Medra and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply! Seniority level
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Executive Employment type
Employment type
Full-time Job function
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Engineering and Information Technology Industries
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