Career Opportunities
Help us build a better future for everyone. From working on our product teams to lifting the voices and work of our grant partners, CZI is always looking for talented, driven individuals to join our mission. Explore our current openings below.
Additionally, there are career opportunities available with our scientific institutes. Visit the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and the Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging to explore open roles.
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Role: Business Systems Analyst, Payroll Systems(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Central Information Technology |
Job Description: You will play a key role in streamlining, securing, and optimizing our Payroll, Planning, and Absence management processes through the Workday platform. You will work closely with the Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards teams and be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, translating requirements into technical specifications, ensuring compliance with IT security standards, and implementing solutions.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Central Information Technology |
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Role: Senior IT Client Platform Engineer, Corporate Infrastructure, Central Technology(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Technology, Central Information Technology |
Job Description: You will design, build, manage, and actively support our macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android deployments using a combination of Open Source and commercial endpoint management systems.You will also manage entire endpoint provisioning lifecycle and security posture leveraging MDM and configuration management tools.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Technology, Central Information Technology |
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Role: Senior Manager, People Systems(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Central Information Technology |
Job Description: You will play a key role in further developing a high functioning team to streamline, secure, and enhance our HR systems, including Workday, Greenhouse, and VNDLY. You will work closely with the People team to create employee experiences leveraging process, technology, and enablement to deliver impact.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Central Information Technology |
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Role: President, Virtual Cell Models Program, Science(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Science Artificial Intelligence |
Job Description: You will guide the development of AI-driven virtual cell models that predict and generate novel cell states, leveraging CZI's significant investment in computational infrastructure (including a 1000 H100 GPU cluster) and unparalleled biological datasets. You'll devise and execute strategies to build generative AI models that learn the "accessible space" and predict cell types, structure, function, and dynamics—all while maintaining rigorous experimental validation and addressing biologically relevant questions that currently defy available methodologies.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Science Artificial Intelligence |
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Role: Senior AI/ML Research Engineer (GenAI)(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Science, Technology Artificial Intelligence |
Job Description: You will apply and optimize state-of-the-art models in artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve important problems in the biomedical sciences aligned with CZI’s mission. You will be expected to be familiar and willing to push the boundaries of generative AI tools for scientific discovery. You will work as part of a team responsible for developing and deploying (Gen-) AI models that use data developed by CZI and research partners all for the purpose of contributing to greater understanding of human cell function and AI for science. You will interface with our AI cluster infrastructure team to build and maintain world class AI modeling capabilities. You will have the opportunity to work closely with teams of scientists, computational biologists, engineers within CZI and to collaborate with CZI grantees, with CZ institutes, and other external labs and organizations. Your work will inspire and enhance the production and analysis of datasets by CZ teams and collaborators. Scientific focus areas could include literature agents, models for single cell biology, imaging, genomics, and proteomics.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Science, Technology Artificial Intelligence |
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Role: Staff Software Engineer, Data and AI Platforms, Central(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Technology, Central Artificial Intelligence |
Job Description: You will develop and maintain the tooling and infrastructure that drives the entire data lifecycle at CZI, from ingestion and processing to secure storage and access. Your work will directly support cutting-edge research, AI model training, and data analysis across the organization.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Technology, Central Artificial Intelligence |
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Role: Principal Data Scientist, Science(Opens in new window)Location: Chicago (Flex) Team: Science, Technology Data |
Job Description: You will manage a team of data scientists who are embedded in cross-functional, AI-modeling focused teams and are responsible for leading dataset definition and delivery to support modeling work. Success is measured by the speed with which datasets are available, the ease with which they can be used, the suitability of the dataset to address the modeling task, and the clarity with which data quality is available to the research team. As a manager of a small team, this role will be a player/coach position. Your individual contributions will focus on defining a strategic, integrated dataset design sufficient to realize a Virtual Cell Model, and to ensure that the individual datasets your team creates for each modeling project each create measurable progress towards the integrated design.
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Chicago (Flex) |
Science, Technology Data |
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Role: Vice President, Scientific Data Strategy(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Science Data |
Job Description: You will ensure that CZI remains a global leader in leveraging data to advance biomedical science and change medicine for generations to come. The leader will serve as the connective tissue between experimental data generation and computational modeling efforts, ensuring the initiative builds a data foundation that enables breakthrough biological insights. The Vice President of Data will be a collaborative, forward-looking leader who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment focused on delivering transformative science.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Science Data |
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Role: Principal Technical Program Manager, AI & Product Security(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Central, Technology Engineering |
Job Description: You will lead the charge to drive the strategy and execution of CZI's AI/ML security program, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance requirements.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Central, Technology Engineering |
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Role: Staff Software Engineer, Science(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Science, Technology Engineering |
Job Description: You will design and implement all the data needs for our platforms, CELLxGENE Discover, CryoET, as well as the new platform we are building that has a focus on data for AI and the virtual cell, in order to enable scientists to further interrogate our very large and growing corpus of data without any need to download the data itself or have any computational expertise. You will work on a collaborative, multidisciplinary team to develop solutions for our scientist users to accelerate their workflows and accelerate the pace of scientific discovery. You will be responsible for setting the direction of how our teams ingest, transform, validate, process, store, monitor, and utilize petabytes of data for ease of use, search and modeling. You will also be responsible for upscaling the engineers around you and influencing the proper technical best practices and data design for efficient and effective delivery. No prior biology experience is required for this role. You will have the opportunity to pair with Computational Biologists to develop solutions for our users and be able to learn about biology from experts on our team. Our tech stack: Python, Terraform, AWS infrastructure, TileDB.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Science, Technology Engineering |
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Role: Senior Manager, Accounting Operations(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Central Finance |
Job Description: You will directly manage two Accounting Operations accountants, and will be responsible for the management of the day-to-day operations of the Accounting Operations team
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Central Finance |
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Role: Senior Technical Program Manager, Corporate Security(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Technology, Central Technical Program Management |
Job Description: You will play a key role in priority enterprise-level initiatives, influence security across our organization, and drive the implementation of our Information Security strategy. We are looking for a TPM with a proven track record of developing and shipping high-quality technologies and services and integrating them into products and experiences. This role will have the opportunity to work closely with partners across the Chan Zuckerberg Organization, aligning with CZI’s Security policies and practices. The role will help evolve a security program that enables CZI staff to protect sensitive information in an active and robust environment and adhere to security measures.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Technology, Central Technical Program Management |
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Role: Senior Technical Program Manager, Imaging Data, Science(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Science, Technology Technical Program Management |
Job Description: You will be responsible for ensuring end-to-end delivery of the imaging datasets, first to AI researchers, and ultimately to the scientific community. You will partner with research scientists, engineers, and data scientists to design and implement systems to acquire, transform, store, manage, and prepare data for model training. You will ensure the system implements requirements from Product Management to make those data useful and accessible for the scientific community. You will ensure data we create are standardized and carry uniform metadata–across imaging modalities but also across other data types we generate. Through these efforts, you will create the data foundation for our work in imaging science.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Science, Technology Technical Program Management |
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Role: Technical Program Management Director, Education(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Education Technical Program Management |
Job Description: You will proactively focus on setting the direction and developing and executing the operational strategy that optimizes our resources across education. In this role, you'll be a key leader within our Education team, responsible for developing and executing the operational strategy that maximizes our impact on students and educators. You'll collaborate closely with Education leadership, product, engineering, and partnerships to ensure alignment, drive efficient decision-making, and accelerate the delivery of transformative solutions.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Education Technical Program Management |
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Role: Social Video Producer, Social and Digital Marketing(Opens in new window)Location: Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) Team: Central Brand & Communications |
Job Description: You will collaborate closely with social media managers, digital marketers, and other stakeholders across the organization to execute storytelling opportunities across our institutes and programs.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex) |
Central Brand & Communications |