CareerPlan

Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure

Headquarters - 3181 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, CAFull-time$191k–$237k2026-10-12 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Own the data and evaluation of ML infrastructure for Arc's virtual cell models, including the Model Performance Dashboard and the pipeline turning single-cell data into training sets.

Role type

Senior IC ML Infrastructure Engineer

Builds

Model Performance Dashboard, data-to-training pipeline, lab-in-the-loop infrastructure, validation frameworks for agent-written software

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Computational Biology / Single-cell data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, distributed training (DDP/FSDP/NCCL/SLURM), GPU utilization optimization, data pipeline design, AI agents, validation frameworks, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

single-cell data (AnnData/h5ad), model evaluation harnesses, multi-node distributed training leadership

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, AnnData, h5ad, DDP, FSDP, NCCL, SLURM

Responsibilities

Design and build evaluation tools for model benchmarking; redesign the single-cell data pipeline to use AI agents for curation; build validation frameworks for agent-written code; optimize multi-node training throughput and GPU utilization; own the CI system for model training and evaluation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC