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Co-Op, Structuring Scientific Data for Discovery

Alewife, Cambridge, MAFull-time2026-10-28 → 2026-11-10

Core

Fine-tune and evaluate models for scientific knowledge extraction and retrieval, build pipelines for messy real-world data, and ship work that flows into production systems.

Role type

Co-op machine learning engineer (scientific data extraction)

Builds

Retrieval and RAG pipelines surfacing relevant documents, tables, and figures; structured datasets extracted from scientific literature and patents

Domain

Life sciences, physical sciences, AI for science

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning fundamentals, Python, NLP concepts, computer vision concepts

Preferred skills

Multimodal models, document understanding (OCR, table and figure extraction), LLM applications, embeddings, retrieval systems (chunking, reranking, vector search), evaluation sets, annotation workflows, scientific document parsing