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 includes Digital Pathology, Digital Radiology, and Clinical Imaging.

• Sustain collaborations with business partners in areas such as Pre-Clinical Sciences & Translational Safety, Oncology, Neuroscience, Immunology, Data Sciences, Molecular Imaging, and additional groups.

• Recognize high-potential opportunities for Digital Imaging technology platforms within pharmaceutical R&D.

• Design and implement success metrics while executing capabilities for the Digital Imaging platform.

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

• Establish external partnerships within the Life Sciences industry Imaging community.

• Lead the technology stack for various functions, including scheduling, communication, monitoring, reporting, alerting, deployment, orchestration, configuration management, infrastructure, reuse, and reproducibility.

• Utilize cloud computing to provide efficient solutions.

• Create sustainable operational processes and resource models.

• Assess and integrate containerization, serverless architectures, accelerated AI, machine learning, deep learning, and agentic AI technologies.

• Guide, develop, support, and inspire direct reports as well as the wider team.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Proficient in AWS EC2 and S3.

• Familiarity with Windows platforms.

• Experience in vendor management.

• Proven track record working on cross-functional and global teams.

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

• Preferred: experience with visualization technologies and techniques.

• Preferred: knowledge of Python, Java, C++, or similar complex programming languages.

• Preferred: experience with Linux platforms.

• Preferred: understanding of imaging technologies like PACS or comparable image management solutions and/or associated image analysis technologies.

• Preferred: experience applying Agile methodology.

• Bonus: experience with Chef for configuration management.

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

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

• Bonus: familiarity with high-performance storage solutions.

• Bonus: experience in implementing GxP projects.

• Bonus: knowledge of AWS RDS and AWS Lambda.

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

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

• Bonus: advanced knowledge of Windows platform functionalities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability insurance

• 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

• 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