# Vice President, Engineering

**Company:** [Formation Bio](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/formation-bio)
**Location:** New York, NY, Boston, MA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $347k – $435k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Ingestion Pipelines, Real-World Evidence, Rwe, Gxp Compliance, LLMs, Autonomous Agents, Data Science, Clinical Data Management, Team Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Lead engineering at a tech-driven pharma company to build computational platforms that accelerate drug development, RWE analysis, and clinical workflows. Requires 10+ years in software/data engineering leadership with biotech experience managing 15+ engineers in GxP-regulated environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and execute a technical vision that prioritizes high-leverage computational capabilities over traditional software features, ensuring engineering effort directly increases drug asset quality and value.
- Act as a core collaborator for the CTO and leadership team, translating complex clinical and business bottlenecks into scalable engineering solutions.
- Embed engineering resources within Business Development, Clinical, and R&D units to leverage technology to address operational needs.
- Partner with Data Science to build the engineering architecture required for complex analysis, including Real-World Evidence (RWE) platforms, asset screening frameworks, and prediction pipelines.
- Collaborate with Product to build specialized tools that streamline R&D workflows, moving the needle from manual efforts to technology-augmented insight generation.
- Develop and scale proprietary platforms for the ingestion and operationalization of external, clinical, and biological datasets.
- Ensure the delivery of GxP-validated clinical environments and automated security compliance, maintaining a regulatory-first posture without sacrificing speed.
- Deploy and scale LLM-integrated features and autonomous agents to drive multiplier efficiencies across the organization.
- Manage and mentor a specialized engineering organization, fostering a high-performance culture that values technical rigor, interdisciplinary collaboration, and mission-driven delivery.
- Refine the team structure to maintain high talent density and quality engineering in a fast-paced biotech environment.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in software/data engineering and technical leadership, with a significant background in the Boston biotech or pharma-tech ecosystem.
- Experience as a VP of Engineering at 2–3 different biotechs with deep understanding of the drug development lifecycle from Discovery through Phase III.
- Experience managing and mentoring a team of 15+ engineers.
- Deep expertise in building data ingestion pipelines and managing complex, heterogeneous biological and clinical datasets.
- Experience working within GxP (GCP, GLP, GMP) environments and building "regulatory-ready" technical capabilities.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Comfort discussing risk-adjusted NPV, asset-level ROI, and clinical trial bottlenecks with CEOs, CMOs, and investors.
- Passion for using engineering to solve the drug development bottleneck and bring treatments to patients faster.

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