CareerPlan

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

New York City, USFull-time$193k2026-09-04 → 2026-11-10
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Architect and deploy autonomous agentic systems and foundation models to enable complex biomolecular design and autonomous scientific workflows in drug discovery.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Agentic Systems & Foundation Models)

Builds

Autonomous agent orchestration frameworks, distributed training/inference systems for foundation models, and MLOps/AgentOps infrastructure.

Domain

AI for Drug Discovery (AI4DD), computational biology, chemistry

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, JAX, distributed systems, agent orchestration, MLOps/AgentOps, CI/CD, system observability, scientific reasoning translation

Preferred skills

LLM serving optimization, molecular data modalities (protein sequences, chemical graphs), open-source ML contributions

Technologies

PyTorch, JAX, LangGraph, AWS, HPC

Responsibilities

Architect autonomous agents for multi-step scientific reasoning; design scalable distributed training and inference systems; establish MLOps/AgentOps lifecycle best practices; define long-term engineering roadmap; translate scientific problems into shippable systems

Seniority

Principal, technical leadership & strategy