# Vice President, Engineering

**Company**: Formation Bio
**Location**: NYC, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $347,000 - $435,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- technical leadership
- biotech
- data science
- GxP environments
- LLM-integrated features

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