Vice President, Engineering

Formation Bio is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and transform its technical capabilities into a strategic driver of clinical and commercial success. The ideal candidate is a biotech-native technical leader who understands the goal is not to build traditional software products but to develop deep technical capabilities that drive hard insights.

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute a technical vision prioritizing high-leverage computational capabilities.
• Collaborate with the CTO and leadership team to translate complex clinical and business bottlenecks into scalable engineering solutions.
• Embed engineering resources within Business Development, Clinical, and R&D units.
• Partner with Data Science to build engineering architecture for complex analysis.
• Develop and scale proprietary platforms for ingesting and operationalizing external, clinical, and biological datasets.
• Ensure delivery of GxP-validated clinical environments and automated security compliance.
• Deploy and scale LLM-integrated features and autonomous agents.
• Manage and mentor a specialized engineering organization.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering and technical leadership.
• Background in the Boston biotech or pharma-tech ecosystem.
• Biotech intuition with understanding of the drug development lifecycle.
• Proven people leader with experience managing and mentoring a team of 15+ engineers.
• Capability mindset with focus on backend engineering for RWE, data science, and trial automation.
• Engineering rigor with deep expertise in building data ingestion pipelines.
• Regulatory fluency with experience working within GxP environments.
• Strategic partner with ability to discuss risk-adjusted NPV and clinical trial bottlenecks.

Total Compensation Range: $347,000 - $435,000