Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

About Cellular Intelligence

Cellular Intelligence is building a universal foundation model for cell signaling to understand, predict, and ultimately control how cells behave, transforming biology from trial and error into an engineering discipline. A clinical-stage AI company, Cellular Intelligence holds the global rights to STEM-PD, an investigational Phase 2-ready cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease with FDA Fast Track designation, acquired from Novo Nordisk. The company’s founding team includes repeat AI entrepreneur Micha Breakstone, Ph.D. (Chorus.ai http://Chorus.ai, acquired for $575M), and five professors from Harvard Medical School, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Washington, collectively holding five National Academy memberships. Based in Boston, Cellular Intelligence has raised over $70M from Khosla Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Novo Nordisk, AMD Ventures, and others.

Cellular Intelligence’s Core Values

- We show up - fully accountable, all-in, doing whatever it takes.

- We act with urgency - swift, decisive, proactive.

- We support one another - collaborative, helpful, empathetic.

Location: Boston, MA, onsite, full-time

Reports to: Director of Bioinformatics

About the role:

We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own the cloud infrastructure, research compute and engineering tools behind CI’s R&D. Your primary focus will be owning our AWS environment, Slurm cluster, shared Linux hosts and internal web applications, and continuously improving their reliability, security and ease of use.

This is a hands-on role spanning infrastructure engineering and operational security. You will make infrastructure decisions, build automation, troubleshoot problems with researchers and improve how we deploy and operate services. You will drive security improvements proactively, partnering with our CISO to review risks and validate controls.

CI is an AI-first company. We expect you to use automation and LLM tools to reduce repetitive work and improve engineering productivity, with appropriate testing, access controls and human review.

Responsibilities:

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESEARCH COMPUTE

- Operate and improve our AWS environment, including networking, IAM, storage, infrastructure as code, monitoring, backups and cost management.

- Configure, maintain and improve the Slurm cluster and shared Linux hosts used for research and model training.

- Define, implement and operate storage policies covering data placement, access, retention, archival and deletion across AWS and shared research storage, in partnership with researchers and the CISO.

- Help researchers resolve access, SSH, storage and job execution problems, and automate recurring fixes.

- Test recovery procedures and improve reliability based on operational experience.

INTERNAL WEB APPLICATIONS AND ENGINEERING TOOLS