AI Research Engineer


San Francisco
Permanent
USD250000 - USD300000
Research and Development
PR/580586_1773929608
AI Research Engineer

AI Research Engineer

A frontier AI-For-Science team at the intersection of machine learning and molecular design is scaling generative models to enable scientists to engineer medicines with precision from molecular proposals to real‑world development. T

The platform is leveraged by leading pharmaceutical companies to accelerate discovery programs that are difficult to address through conventional methods. The team is backed by is backed by tier-one investors in deep tech and bio, and partners with global biopharma on programs that are reshaping how pipelines are built.

The Role:

The team is looking for Research Engineers to design, train, evaluate, and optimize the models and infrastructure that power the platform while working in tight loops with research scientists. This role will be moving between systems work, applied ML, and pragmatic research towards shipping product.

What You Bring:

  • HPC or systems engineering, custom kernels / GPU programming, large‑scale ML + data systems.
  • Strong Python and experience with a deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch).
  • Comfort with OS internals and performance tuning.
  • Experience running on cluster environments (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes) and managing experiments at scale.
  • Evidence of performance engineering and profiling on CPU/GPU workloads.
  • Experience building and maintaining large‑scale data/ETL pipelines.
  • Bonus: familiarity with model deployment, observability, or secure data handling in scientific settings.

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