This is a hands-on individual-contributor role: the Associate Director designs, builds, debugs and reviews production software, working in agentic development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) throughout the day, alongside validated-system work that follows its own procedures. - Design and build full-stack, cloud-native systems: APIs, orchestration and workflow services, data and vector stores, identity and access, and scientist-facing front ends, favoring managed services and simple, maintainable designs.