ML Research Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Jul 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
As a full-time remote ML Research Engineer focused on AI for Life Sciences, the successful candidate will bring cutting-edge research into production-grade reality, architecting, scaling, and optimizing scientific codebases that drive large quantitative models for drug and materials discovery.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, architect, and scale high-performing scientific code from novel ideas and scientific papers
- Lead the ideation, benchmarking, and execution of complex datasets and ML models for integration into large-scale simulation frameworks
- Drive software through the entire product lifecycle, ensuring technical excellence from research to long-term support
Required Qualifications
- PhD or research-focused MSc in Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, or a related quantitative field
- 5+ years of industry experience developing productionized software in professional teams
- Experience or training in data-science tasks related to structural biology
- Expertise in translating research papers into concrete ML software artifacts
- Experience supporting models in external-facing products, bridging the gap between research and product code
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