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ML Research Engineer, AI for Life Sciences

United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect, scale, and optimize scientific codebases for Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) to accelerate drug and materials discovery.

Role type

Senior IC ML Research Engineer (Life Sciences)

Builds

Production-grade ML and physics-based models for in silico drug design

Domain

Life Sciences / Computational Chemistry / AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PhD or research-focused MSc in CS/Physics/Chemistry, 5+ years production software development, structural biology data science, translating research papers to ML software, bridging research code to product code

Preferred skills

biopharma domain experience, affinity/structure-prediction/generative chemistry models, MLOps on cloud platforms, interdisciplinary AI-biology work

Technologies

GPU infrastructure, large-scale simulation frameworks, major cloud platforms

Responsibilities

Bring novel scientific ideas into robust code, lead ideation and execution of complex datasets and ML models, drive software through full product lifecycle from research to launch

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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