Foresite Labs (Stealth Co)

Lead and develop HR strategies, oversee employee relations and engagement, ensure compliance, and support organizational growth in a biotech environment. | 8+ years of progressive HR experience, proven ability to build HR functions in high-growth environments, strong knowledge of employment law, and experience partnering with executive leadership. | Director, HR Location: San Diego, CA Job Type: Full-Time $225-$235K About Us We are a venture-backed, stealth-stage biotechnology company based in San Diego, focused on developing novel technologies that will redefine how disease is detected, characterized, and managed with a novel approach to clinical genomics. Our mission is to fundamentally transform healthcare through a convergence of innovation across multiple scientific disciplines. Founded by industry veterans with decades of experience in life sciences tools and diagnostics, our leadership team brings a proven track record of translating scientific insight into successful commercial products. Our investors include some of the most respected names in healthcare and deep tech. Position Overview We are seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Director of Human Resources to lead and scale our people function during a critical phase of company growth. This role will own end-to-end people operations, including HR strategy, employee relations, compliance, talent processes, compensation and benefits, and organizational development. As the most senior HR leader at the company, the Director of HR will serve as a trusted partner to executive leadership, helping shape company culture, management practices, and organizational infrastructure while ensuring strong operational rigor. The ideal candidate brings experience building HR functions in high-growth environments and is equally comfortable setting strategy and rolling up their sleeves to execute. This is a unique opportunity to establish the people foundation of a next-generation biotechnology company from an early stage. Key Responsibilities People Strategy & Leadership Develop and lead the company’s overall people strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals, growth plans, and company values. Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and managers on organizational design, performance management, workforce planning, and talent development. Build scalable HR programs and infrastructure to support rapid growth while maintaining a strong, inclusive culture. Employee Relations & Engagement Lead employee relations efforts, including coaching managers on performance issues, conflict resolution, and team effectiveness. Oversee employee engagement initiatives, including surveys, feedback mechanisms, and culture-building programs. Ensure consistent, fair, and legally compliant handling of employee matters. HR Operations & Compliance Own HR operations across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, HRIS administration, and policy development. Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations. Partner closely with Legal and Finance to manage risk, audits, and employment-related documentation. Talent & Recruiting Partnership Partner with leaders to support hiring strategy, workforce planning, and organizational scaling. Oversee recruiting operations and processes, including systems, vendors, and candidate experience, while enabling hiring managers to make high-quality decisions. Establish consistent hiring, leveling, and evaluation frameworks as the company grows. Compensation, Benefits & Payroll Lead compensation and benefits strategy, including benchmarking, pay equity, incentive planning, and annual review cycles. Serve as the primary owner of benefits programs, broker relationships, renewals, and employee education. Partner with Finance to ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and compensation changes. Qualifications Required: 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including leadership roles in high-growth technology, biotech, or life sciences organizations. Proven experience building and scaling HR functions, systems, and processes in early-stage or rapidly growing environments. Strong working knowledge of employment law, HR compliance, and people operations best practices. Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with executives and managers across all levels of the organization. Excellent judgment, discretion, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to handle sensitive matters with professionalism and empathy. Preferred: Prior experience as the most senior HR leader in a startup or venture-backed company. Experience supporting scientific, engineering, or highly technical teams. Familiarity with HRIS platforms (e.g., Rippling) and modern people analytics tools. Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or HR certification (e.g., SHRM, SPHR) preferred. Why Join Us Influence the culture, leadership practices, and people strategy of a company poised to shape the future of clinical genomics and healthcare. Work in a dynamic, collaborative environment where innovation and scientific rigor are deeply valued. Partner closely with a seasoned executive team during a pivotal stage of growth. Competitive compensation and equity package, comprehensive benefits, and flexibility to support work-life integration. We are an equal opportunity employer. We thrive on diversity and collaboration.

Designing, maintaining, and supporting deployment, configuration, and observability systems for development, test, and production environments. | 7+ years in systems or DevOps roles, strong Linux expertise, experience with CI/CD, scripting, containerization, and cloud infrastructure. | Staff Engineer, Systems & DevOps Location: San Diego, CA Job Type: Full-Time Pay Range: $175k - $185k About Us We are a venture-backed, stealth-stage biotechnology company based in San Diego, focused on developing novel technologies that will redefine how disease is detected, characterized, and managed with a novel approach to clinical genomics. Our mission is to fundamentally transform healthcare through a convergence of innovation across multiple scientific disciplines. Founded by industry veterans with decades of experience in life sciences tools and diagnostics, our leadership team brings a proven track record of translating scientific insight into successful commercial products. Our investors include some of the most respected names in healthcare and deep tech. Position Overview We are looking for a Staff Systems & DevOps Software Engineer to own the infrastructure, configuration, and deployment foundations that keep our engineering teams productive and our systems reliable. This role will support both product software and internal test beds, and will work cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, HPC, and application engineers. You will help ensure that experimental systems, test infrastructure, and production deployments share consistent, debuggable, and well-managed software foundations. This is a senior generalist role for an engineer who is comfortable operating across software deployment, system configuration, build and release pipelines, logging and observability, and Linux-based infrastructure. You will work closely with application, firmware, and HPC engineers to ensure software can be built, deployed, configured, monitored, and debugged consistently across development, test, and production environments. This role emphasizes pragmatic engineering over buzzwords: robust Linux systems, clear configuration practices, reliable deployments, and observability that actually helps engineers debug real systems. Key Responsibilities Systems & Deployment Engineering • Design and maintain systems for software configuration, deployment, and upgrades • Own deployment workflows across development, test, and production environments • Support software running in test beds, lab environments, and experimental systems • Manage system configuration using best practices for reproducibility and traceability • Support on-device, on-prem, and cloud-adjacent deployments as required • Work closely with engineering teams to operationalize new software components Logging, Monitoring & Observability • Design and implement centralized logging and metrics collection • Ensure logs and metrics are structured, searchable, and useful for debugging • Build and maintain internal tooling for log visualization, exploration, and analysis • Work with engineers to improve log quality, signal-to-noise ratio, and debuggability • Deploy and manage observability tooling such as: • Prometheus • Grafana • Loki • Cloud-based storage such as S3 • Define logging and monitoring standards across services, test beds, and deployed systems • Support alerting, diagnostics, and post-mortem analysis for deployed systems Containerization & Runtime Environments • Build and maintain containerized environments for development and deployment • Define container build best practices and base images • Manage container runtimes and orchestration as appropriate to the system • Balance containerization with performance, debuggability, and operational simplicity Linux Systems & Configuration Management • Administer and deeply understand Linux-based systems • Configure services, networking, storage, and security settings • Apply best practices for configuration management and system hardening • Debug system-level issues involving processes, filesystems, networking, and resource usage Qualifications Education:  BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering Required: Experience & Technical Skills • 7+ years of experience in systems, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused software roles • Strong, hands-on Linux expertise (administration, debugging, performance) • Experience designing and operating CI/CD and build pipelines • Solid understanding of logging, metrics, and observability best practices • Experience deploying and maintaining containerized systems Programming & Tooling • Proficiency in at least one systems or scripting language: • C/C++ • Python • Shell scripting • Ability to read, debug, and support production C/C++ and Python applications • Experience integrating build systems (e.g., CMake, Make, Bazel, etc.) into CI pipelines • Experience interfacing with cloud-based infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP) • IAM, Tiered Storage, EKS/Kubernetes, Databases etc. Infrastructure & Observability • Experience with logging and monitoring stacks such as: • Prometheus/Granfana • Loki • S3 or similar object storage • Familiarity with cloud-adjacent tooling, even if systems are primarily on-prem or hybrid Preferred: • Experience supporting embedded or HPC-adjacent systems • Familiarity with configuration management tools or infrastructure-as-code concepts • Experience operating systems in regulated or reliability-sensitive environments • Experience supporting distributed systems or edge deployments Why Join Us • Work in a dynamic, collaborative environment where innovation and scientific rigor are deeply valued. • Join a seasoned and multidisciplinary team tackling high-impact problems at the intersection of science and engineering. • Competitive compensation and equity package, comprehensive benefits, and flexibility to support work-life integration. We are an equal opportunity employer. We thrive on diversity and collaboration.