Founding Machine Learning Engineer (San Francisco County)

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

An early-stage startup led by veterans from top AI labs is using machine learning to unlock breakthroughs in RNA biology. This is an opportunity to join a team at the cutting edge of AI-driven molecular design , where your work will directly accelerate the development of next-generation therapeutics and biological systems.

As an early hire, you'll have significant ownership over the technical stack and play a key role in shaping the company's culture and trajectory. If you're excited by the idea of building scalable ML systems in a fast-moving, interdisciplinary environment, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance training pipelines for large-scale RNA models.
• Develop distributed training strategies across multi-GPU / TPU environments for maximum efficiency.
• Build robust data infrastructure for ingesting, cleaning, and managing complex biological datasets.
• Collaborate with research scientists to translate RNA-focused challenges into ML solutions.
• Contribute to model architecture design, fine-tuning strategies, and performance benchmarking.
• Establish best practices for reproducibility, testing, and deployment in ML workflows.

Qualifications

Preferred :