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Machine Learning Engineering & AI Research Lead
Full Time
Boston, Massachusetts, United States (This job can be hybrid)
Job description
Scismic is supporting the growth of a biotech company in Boston, MA! This company is placing computation at the heart of drug discovery, blending expertise in computational chemistry, genetics, data science, pharmacology, structural biology, and software engineering to develop drugs for previously undruggable targets.
We are seeking a Machine Learning and AI leader to join our team!
You are someone we can count on to...
Act as both an Individual Contributor (IC), who can roll up her sleeve, and play an important role in our mission to use AI/ML to develop drugs against historically difficult disease targets, as well as a Leader who can build and grow the ML Engineering & AI Research team over time
Your key responsibilities will include…
Own
- Propose innovative AI/ML models that address specific use cases in our drug discovery process
- Develop and launch prototype models
- Own the company’s Microsoft Azure Infrastructure
- Productionize AI/ML models on Azure
- Grow the team
Teach - Teach their cross-disciplinary colleagues from Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Computational Biology, Cell Biology, and Pharmacology, how AI/ML can solve important problems for them
Learn - Drug discovery and development
Improve - Our existing process for incorporating AI/ML into drug discovery
Within 1 month this person will…
- Form a view on which AI/ML models address the highest need use cases in our drug discovery process
- Begin prototyping AI/ML models on Azure
Within 3 months this person will…
- Productionize AI/ML models on Azure that would become a cornerstone of the company’s drug discovery efforts
Within 6 months this person will…
- Continue improving the first set of production-grade AI/ML models on Azure
- Build and productionize improved AI/ML models on Azure to harmonize, and accelerate our drug discovery process
Within 1 year this person will…
- Grow the team with new hires including ML Engineers, AI Researchers, and Product Managers
Compensation and Benefits
- Extremely generous equity package coupled with competitive salary
- Healthcare benefits
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Super cool team building activities
- Flexible work schedule
- Great colleagues