Principal Engineer – Platform/Cloud Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +3 more locations.

📋 Description

• Develop strategies and roadmaps while leading and executing technology implementations for Digital Imaging, which encompasses Digital Pathology, Digital Radiology, and Clinical Imaging.

• Foster collaborative relationships with business stakeholders across Pre-Clinical Sciences & Translational Safety, Oncology, Neuroscience, Immunology, Data Sciences, Molecular Imaging, and additional departments.

• Identify key opportunity areas for Digital Imaging technology platforms within pharmaceutical research and development.

• Create and implement success metrics and execute capabilities for the Digital Imaging platform.

• Work collaboratively across the IT organization to influence sector and enterprise technology leadership.

• Engage with the external Life Sciences industry Imaging community as a partner.

• Direct the technology stack involved in scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, alerting, deployment, orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure, reuse, and reproducibility.

• Utilize cloud computing to provide effective solutions.

• Develop sustainable operational processes and resource models.

• Integrate containerization, serverless, accelerated AI/ML/deep learning, and Agentic AI technologies as suitable.

• Lead, nurture, support, and inspire direct reports and the wider team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Science, or a related discipline, along with at least 6 years of industry experience; OR a Master's degree in one of these fields with a minimum of 4 years of industry experience.

• Demonstrated capability to lead teams, programs, and projects while applying business acumen to generate new opportunities.

• Familiarity with AWS EC2 and S3.

• Experience with Windows platforms.

• Proficiency in vendor management.

• Experience collaborating on cross-functional and global teams.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Preferred: experience with visualization technologies and techniques.

• Preferred: experience with Python, Java, C++, or other complex programming languages.

• Preferred: experience with Linux platforms.

• Preferred: knowledge of imaging technologies such as PACS or similar image management solutions and/or related image analysis technologies.

• Preferred: experience with Agile methodology.

• Bonus: experience with Chef for configuration management.

• Bonus: experience with Docker, Singularity, Kubernetes, and AWS EKS.

• Bonus: experience with GPUs for computational sciences, advanced AI/ML/deep learning image analysis, and predictive model training.

• Bonus: experience with high-performance storage solutions.

• Bonus: experience implementing GxP projects.

• Bonus: experience with AWS RDS.

• Bonus: experience with AWS Lambda.

• Bonus: experience with high-performance computing cluster technologies such as Grid Engine or Slurm.

• Bonus: experience with Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine.

• Bonus: experience with advanced Windows platform functionality.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Short-term disability.

• Long-term disability.

• Business accident insurance.

• Group legal insurance.

• Consolidated retirement plan (pension).

• Savings plan (401(k)).

• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year.

• Sick time – 40 hours per calendar year; employees residing in Washington – 56 hours per calendar year.

• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year.

• Work, Personal and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year.

• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child.

• Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member; 5 days for an extended family member.

• Caregiver Leave – 10 days.

• Volunteer Leave – 4 days.

• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours.

• Fully remote work option.