CareerPlan

AI Engineer

HeidelbergFull-time2026-08-14 → 2026-11-10

Core

Founding member of EMBL's AI Engineering & Automation Team, building infrastructure and services to advance scientific discovery in genomics, structural biology, and drug discovery.

Role type

Senior IC AI Engineer (Infrastructure & Automation)

Builds

Shared AI platforms, APIs, software libraries, and ML/DL pipelines for the scientific community

Domain

Life sciences research (genomics, structural biology, drug discovery) + AI Infrastructure

Required skills

Systems engineering, distributed systems, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GPU environments, model serving, LLMs, agentic systems, scientific needs decomposition

Preferred skills

MLOps tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow), biological data AI application, lab automation, open-source contribution

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GPU environments, LLMs, agentic systems, MLflow, Weights & Biases, Kubeflow

Responsibilities

Design and deploy ML/DL models and infrastructure; contribute to shared AI platforms and APIs; bridge engineering capacity to research groups; publish code and support knowledge transfer

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC