_{21st October, 2025}

Director of Research Engineering & Infrastructure
Location: London (Hybrid)
Search Partner: KEMIO Consulting (Retained)
Company: Stealth TechBio (Foundation Models for Biology)

KEMIO Consulting is partnering with a stealth-stage TechBio company to appoint a Director of Research Engineering & Infrastructure — a senior hire responsible for enabling large-scale biological foundation model research.
This is a research-enablement role (not production ML), building the technical backbone that allows scientists to train frontier causal/mechanistic models on multi-omics data at scale.
  
 What you will build -

• GPU/distributed infrastructure for large-scale training
• Multi-omics data pipelines & research-grade data lake
• Experiment tracking, reproducibility & scientific MLOps
• Research tooling to accelerate iteration speed

  
The Person We’re Looking For

• Built ML infra for research teams
• Deep experience in distributed training / large-scale compute
• Data engineering for complex or scientific datasets
• Pragmatic, stability-minded, but technically ambitious
• Comfortable working alongside frontier ML researchers

Requirements

• PhD/MD in computer sciences, mathematics, physics, bioinformatics or a related life sciences field
• In-depth knowledge of advanced analytics, AI/ML, and statistics
• Profound knowledge of data domains that are specific and relevant for drug discovery and preclinical/clinical development
• Profound knowledge in common elements of a modern data infrastructure including but not limited to various data base formats, distributed architectures, semantic integration
• Proficiency in developing solutions in managed code repositories.
• Familiar with modern methods for continuous development and integration.
• Strong multidisciplinary thinking and ability to transfer learnings and know-how between domains
• Strong leadership skills, Strong communication skills.
• Strong influencer, open for innovation

  
  
KEMIO Consulting is leading this retained search and would welcome confidential discussions with senior candidates. Please Apply or get in touch with Eugene @ KEMIO Consulting to discuss this opportunity in more detail.

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