Founding Finance Lead
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via Ashby
About this role
THE OPPORTUNITY
Substrate is building the critical infrastructure layer between AI and biology: an AI-native automated lab that produces biological data at scale. Biological foundation models can predict but cannot experiment, and the high-quality data they need does not exist at the scale required. Substrate generates it, with quality and provenance built in. Our first lab opens in London in 2026, with protein characterisation coming online first and functional genomics following through 2027. Our customers range from foundation model labs to global pharma.
We are hiring a founding finance leader to build the finance function from the ground up.…
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