Machine Learning Research Engineer

Skills
Computer ScienceData EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentBiotechnologyData ScienceDeep LearningMachine Learning
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or other STEM field and 4+ years of experience in applied machine learning and software engineering
  • PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or other STEM field and 2+ years of experience in applied machine learning and software engineering
  • Knowledge of statistics for scientific data
  • Experience working within the domain of biological systems
  • Experienced with large scale representation learning
  • Experienced with long context sequence models
  • Experience with tabular data
  • Experience with ML + data science libraries such as PyTorch, Pandas, Scikit-learn
  • Proficient data engineering skills
  • Python Expertise
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS
  • Understanding of version control (Git) and software engineering best practices
  • Experience with early-stage startups

Nice to have

  • Self-manage
  • Distributed work experience
  • Problem-solving
  • Execution-focused

Day to day

  • Develop foundational models based on biological data for early stage drug discovery
  • Productionalize research code and enhance state of the art models
  • Implement and train baseline models for downstream tasks
  • Identify, implement, and maintain model performance metrics
  • Lead and contribute to publications in top-tier journals
  • Stay up to date with relevant research and industry trends
  • Transform biological systems simulation for drug development