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Principal Machine Learning Engineer

New York City, US💼 Full-time💰 $192,500–$192,500🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25

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

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

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

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