Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer
On-siteCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Design, develop, train, and validate AI/ML products while supporting executive leadership on technical and commercial feasibility. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and commercial groups to assess AI impact in life sciences, focusing on ML reinforcement learning, LLM agent harnesses, and automated retraining. Engage directly with customers onsite up to four to five days per week in the Boston region. This role requires an advanced degree in Biological, Data, or Computer Science and ten years of AI/ML development experience. The team actively shares knowledge to build tools accelerating drug discovery across multiple pharmaceutical companies.
Required Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Biological, Data, or Computer Science
- 10+ years of AI/ML development experience, or 5+ years developing AI/ML tools for commercial life sciences, healthcare, or regulated environments
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of AI/ML products
- Proven track record of deploying AI models addressing real world problems
- Superior talent developing at least one of: ML reinforcement learning, fine tuning, or automated retraining; LLM agentic governance including guardrails and evaluations
- Ability to work onsite up to 4-5 days per week in the Boston region
Desired Qualifications
- Degree in AI or ML
- Deep understanding of hurdles facing pharmaceutical drug development
- Demonstrated ability to make productized applications (for use by more than one group)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to advocate and evangelize for AI initiatives internally and externally
- Experience collaborating with teams on large software projects
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