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Research Engineer, Life Sciences

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $350,000–$350,000🗓 2026-07-03 → 2026-07-31

Core

Develop novel evaluation frameworks and training strategies to push the frontier of AI in biology, working at the intersection of machine learning engineering and biological sciences.

Role type

Research Engineer (Life Sciences)

Builds

AI systems for research and development phases in life sciences

Domain

Life Sciences / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

training and evaluating large language models, Python, building and managing data pipelines for large-scale datasets, navigating ambiguity in research environments

Preferred skills

8+ years of machine learning experience, prior work in AI and biology, experience with large-scale biological datasets, published research in scientific AI, reinforcement learning, pretraining, containerization technologies, cross-domain work in scientific computing

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Develop rigorous methods to measure and improve model performance on complex scientific tasks, collaborate with researchers and engineers to build AI systems for all phases of research and development

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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