Senior Engineering Manager, Scientific Platform

Color believes that everyone deserves access to high-quality information they can use to improve and maintain their health. We are transforming how clinical-grade genetic testing is done by removing financial, educational, and geographic barriers. Our goal is to expand physician-supported access to genetic testing to help every person, everywhere understand their risk for hereditary disorders.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering manager/director to partner with 10-15 engineers leading our bioinformatics pipeline and internal operations teams. These teams are responsible for all of the scientific and clinical tools/insights we generate for our clients -- from our massively parallel cloud-based bioinformatics pipeline, to a suite of supervised models/prediction algorithms and our clinical operations platform (tools for medical geneticists, variant scientists, lab scientists, and genetic counselors). No background in biology/genetics is required -- the team has a great mix of software engineers and domain experts -- but a passion for science, engineering, and interdisciplinary learning is a must.

You will:

Work with internal customers and domain experts in computational biology/genetics to devise a plan for expanding and growing Color’s internal clinical platform (bioinformatics pipeline, predictive models, systems infrastructure, scientific tools)
Enable the engineering team to maintain a high level of productivity and reliability, with a focus on systems/process optimization and overall quality improvements (novel variant callers, novel algorithms)
Lead engineering-wide initiatives and process improvements across the org (onboarding, design doc review, etc.)
Recruit world-class engineers
Develop engineers on the team, organizing and delivering regular 360° feedback
Manage internal team processes to help the team operate smoothly and interface effectively with the rest of Color

You might be a good fit if:

You’re passionate about using software and technology to help save lives and prevent catastrophic disease. You want to apply your skills in the service of a greater mission.
You’ve managed teams that designed and operated critical data infrastructure, with robust measurements of quality and performance
You know how to balance the usability, reliability, compliance and cost of critical systems
You have a background in designing novel algorithms/classifiers, distributed systems infrastructure, and/or performance tuning/optimization.
You have experience managing and mentoring subject-matter experts in fields/subjects that are different from your own background/expertise.
You give deeply technical design/code feedback, but empower your senior engineers to own design decisions
You rely on influence and persuasion (not top-down edict) to drive changes
You are excited about collaborating with and learning from scientists/domain experts across Color’s organization. You regularly read or skim the latest journal articles/papers.
You’re an experienced engineering manager who has mentored senior leaders (either other managers or individual contributors)

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