VP, Scientific Partnerships

About the role

About the role

We're looking for a senior R&D leader from pharma to own our relationships with large research organizations. You'll be the connective tissue between Infera and pharma R&D, process and data teams: opening conversations, shaping pilots and making sure they turn into lasting partnerships. You'll also be a senior scientific voice for Infera with customers, partners and investors. This role starts as a part-time contract, with the option to grow into a full-time position.

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Key responsibilities

• Own Infera's pharma partnerships end-to-end, from first introduction through pilot to contract
• Open doors with R&D, process engineering, lab digitization and analytical teams, and lead executive-level conversations
• Frame Infera around what pharma cares about: reproducibility, data integrity, batch quality, compliance and risk
• Design pilots with clear success metrics that large organizations can approve, and guide us through security review, procurement and IP terms
• Build co-selling relationships with instrument makers and lab-buildout partners
• Bring field signal back to the founders on which workflows, instruments and data problems matter most in pharma labs

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Minimum qualifications

• Have held a Senior Director, VP or equivalent role in research, process development, lab operations or R&D informatics at a pharma or large biotech company
• Have owned or influenced budget for lab software, automation or instruments, and know how those decisions get made
• Have a network of R&D, process and data leaders who would take your call
• Can tell real AI and automation capability from hype, and explain the difference to executives

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Preferred qualifications

• PhD or equivalent scientific training
• Experience advising or working at an early-stage company
• Experience with GxP-regulated environments

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary (full-time equivalent):
$100,000—$400,000 USD

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Logistics

• Commitment: Part-time contract to start, with the option to grow into a full-time role.
• Location: San Francisco, CA preferred. Remote within the US considered.
• Equity: Meaningful.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. We care more about what you've done than about checking boxes.

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About Infera

Infera Biosystems is a Y Combinator-backed company building toward closed-loop science: AI agents that carry out research end-to-end in the wet lab, from designing experiments and running them on lab instruments, to analyzing the results and drafting follow-up work. Our mission is to close the loop between in silico work and the wet lab, so scientists can direct entire discovery programs and cure disease faster.

We're supported by some of the most prominent minds in biotech, and our founding team brings extensive experience across machine learning and bench science. One of our founders trained in biology and computer science; the other in mechanical engineering and computer science. Today we're a small team based in San Francisco, working with academic, hospital and pharma labs.

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How we work

• We build with scientists, not just for them. We spend time in our users' labs, run their protocols with them and ship fixes based on what we see.
• We go after hard, real problems. Physical lab work is messy, and we'd rather solve it properly than demo around it.
• Everyone owns a lot. Each person on the team shapes the product, the customers we work with and how the company runs.
• We take safety seriously. Agents that touch physical labs need guardrails, and we look forward to working with diverse stakeholders to define alignment and safety with biological implications.

We're early, and the people who join now will shape what Infera becomes.

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How to Apply

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