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Machine Learning Scientist
$219054.6 - $255563.7
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Machine Learning Scientist
USA (Remote)
$180,000 to $210,000 base + bonus + equity
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Machine Learning team where experimentation, ownership, and real-world impact sit at the core of the role. You will work on systems that directly influence commercial outcomes at scale, with the autonomy to design, test, and deploy solutions that power critical decision-making.
The Company
This organisation operates at the intersection of data, commerce, and risk, building advanced machine learning systems to solve complex transactional challenges. Their platform processes high volumes of real-time decisions, using AI to optimise customer experiences while managing risk. Machine learning is central to their product and growth, not a supporting function, giving teams strong visibility across the business.
They foster a culture that values scientific thinking, creativity, and engineering rigour, with teams structured to own their services end to end.
The Role
You will contribute to the development of production-grade machine learning systems, working across the full lifecycle from experimentation through to deployment.
* Designing and implementing machine learning models that drive real-time decisioning
* Building and optimising scalable ML pipelines to enable rapid experimentation
* Exploring and integrating new ML techniques to improve model accuracy and scalability
* Collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Risk teams
* Owning projects end to end, with full accountability for outcomes in production
Your Skills and Experience
* Strong commercial experience building and deploying machine learning models from first principles
* Hands-on experience working in distributed computing environments such as Spark
* Proficiency in Python and SQL for data processing and model development
* Experience designing and running experiments rather than relying on pre-built models or APIs
* Ability to translate business problems into scalable machine learning solutions
What They Offer
* Competitive base salary up to $210,000 depending on experience
* Annual bonus / equity package
* Fully remote working within the USA
* Flexible working and unlimited paid time off
* Generous parental leave and learning and development support
* The opportunity to work on high-scale systems with meaningful business impact
How to Apply
If you are interested in applying your machine learning expertise to real-world challenges at scale, please submit your CV to learn more.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Animation
$200000 - $275000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Animation & Real-Time Systems
We are partnering with a Series C startup at the forefront of animation and gaming technology, building next-generation 3D avatar systems powered by machine learning. This team is redefining how characters are created, animated, and brought to life in real-time environments.
We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with strong experience in animation systems and real-time integration. This role sits at the intersection of ML model development and production-grade runtime systems, with a heavy focus on deploying intelligent animation behaviors into interactive pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop ML-driven systems for 3D avatar generation, including skeletal structures, rigging, and motion synthesis
- Build and integrate models for motion prediction, gesture generation, and animation control into real-time pipelines
- Translate model outputs into production-ready systems within Unity or Unreal Engine environments
- Develop and optimize runtime systems for animation playback, motion matching, and behavior orchestration
- Work with mocap data pipelines, including ingestion, cleaning, and model training
- Collaborate closely with graphics engineers, technical artists, and gameplay teams to ensure seamless integration
- Contribute across the ML lifecycle, with approximately 25% focused on training and fine-tuning models and 75% on engineering, integration, and runtime systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, graphics, or animation systems
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python
- Hands-on experience with Unity or Unreal Engine in a production environment
- Deep understanding of animation systems, including skeletons, rigging, motion matching, and behavior trees
- Experience integrating ML models into real-time systems or interactive applications
- Familiarity with mocap data processing and animation pipelines
- Strong systems engineering mindset with the ability to optimize for performance and latency
Nice to Have
- Experience with character animation, procedural animation, or physics-based animation systems
- Background in gaming, simulation, or interactive media
- Familiarity with generative models applied to motion or animation
- Experience working with large-scale ML pipelines or real-time inference systems
Compensation & Location
- Base salary: $200,000 – $280,000 + equity
- Open to remote candidates; preference for Los Angeles or San Francisco
Why This Role
This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge ML-driven animation systems that bridge offline model development and real-time interactive experiences. You will have direct impact on how next-generation avatars move, behave, and interact in dynamic environments.

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Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco
$200000 - $350000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Staff Software Engineer – AI Platform · Full-Time
About the Role
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our AI platform team at a fast-growing, healthcare-focused startup. This is a hands-on technical leadership role – you’ll be the person who dreams up what’s possible, architects the solution, writes the code, and then hands off polished specs
You won’t be managing people. You’ll be doing the work: designing agentic AI workflows, building generative AI features, and thinking creatively about what could make our platform genuinely better for the people using it. If you’ve ever been the person in the room who says “what if we just built it this way” and then goes home and actually builds it – this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
- Design, architect, and implement agentic AI and generative AI workflows that power core platform capabilities
- Take ownership from idea to implementation – whiteboard it, validate it, ship it
- Identify creative, non-obvious opportunities to leverage AI across the platform and bring those ideas to life
- Contribute to marketing technology initiatives and help build commercially viable AI models
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience building agentic AI systems or AI-powered chatbots from scratch – not just integrating APIs, but architecting the underlying system
- Strong Python skills across relevant frameworks – Django, Flask, and/or FastAPI
- Comfort with the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, validation, and iteration
- Experience building and deploying on AWS
- Ability to code without relying on AI-assisted tooling – you understand what you’re writing and why
- A builder mentality – you move fast, think creatively, and take pride in shipping things that work
- Frontend experience with React is a plus, though backend depth is what matters most here
Nice to Have
- Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar agentic frameworks
- Background in healthcare, health tech, or a similarly regulated industry
- Experience working with distributed or cross-timezone engineering teams
Why This Role
- Greenfield AI work – you’ll have real influence over what gets built and how
- Collaborate with a tight-knit, high-trust international team
- Meaningful domain – the work you do will have a direct impact on how healthcare is delivered
- Salary range up to 350k for the right level

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ML Scientist
San Francisco
$200000 - $280000
+ Life Science Analytics
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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ML Scientist / Researcher
Oncology AI · Foundation Models · Life Sciences
Remote
About the Role
We are building foundation models trained on human tumor biology – one of the most consequential and technically demanding challenges at the intersection of AI and medicine. As an ML Scientist, you will be a core research contributor designing and training these models across multimodal omics datasets, partnering closely with biologists and fellow research scientists to advance the state of the art in oncology AI.
This is a research-forward role for scientists who want their work to matter. We are looking for people with a track record of research excellence – those who have gone deep on model architecture, training dynamics, and rigorous experimental design. If you have built models from the ground up and published findings, we want to talk.
What You’ll Do
- Design and train large-scale foundation models on multimodal biological datasets, including genomics, transcriptomics, and other omics modalities
- Collaborate deeply with computational biologists, research scientists, and domain experts to translate biological questions into tractable modeling problems
- Drive the full research lifecycle: hypothesis formation, experimental design, model development, and rigorous analysis of results
- Contribute to agentic AI systems that reason over complex biological data
- Communicate findings internally and, where appropriate, through peer-reviewed publication
What We’re Looking For
Must-Haves
- Strong research background, typically evidenced by a PhD in machine learning, computational biology, statistics, physics, or a related quantitative field – or equivalent industry research experience
- Demonstrated ability to build and train models end-to-end, including experimental analysis and iteration
- Research excellence: first-author publications at top ML, AI, or computational biology venues are a strong positive signal
- Deep familiarity with foundation model concepts: pretraining, self-supervised learning, attention mechanisms, and large-scale training
- Comfort working at the intersection of biology and machine learning – even without a formal biology degree
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with biological or omics data (genomics, proteomics, pathology imaging, etc.)
- Prior work in multimodal learning or multi-omics integration
- Familiarity with agentic AI systems or tool-use frameworks
- Background in oncology or disease biology
What This Role Is Not
This is not a production ML engineering or MLOps role. We are not looking for candidates whose primary experience is model deployment, serving infrastructure, or engineering-heavy systems work. The emphasis here is firmly on research depth and model development.
Compensation & Location
Base Salary: $250,000 – $288,000 (depending on experience) + equity
Location: Remote-friendly; office in South San Francisco, CA

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Director of AI
Los Angeles
$230000 - $400000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLos Angeles, California
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Senior AI/ML Engineer – Foundation Models & Agentic AI
Life Sciences AI | Biotech / Therapeutics / Computational Biology
What You’ll Work On
- Develop and train proprietary foundation models on multi-omics data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics)
- Design novel algorithms to integrate and differentiate across omics modalities
- Own the full training pipeline: data ingestion, tokenization, pretraining, and evaluation
- Push the state of the art – we are building models that do not exist yet
Agentic AI for Life Sciences
- Build and deploy AI agents that assist researchers across therapeutic development, computational chemistry, and biology
- Design multi-agent architectures using LangChain, LangGraph, and custom orchestration layers
- Integrate agents with internal databases, experimental systems, and third-party scientific tools
- Develop agentic workflows for use cases in cosmetics R&D, drug discovery, and clinical analysis
Production ML Infrastructure
- Own model deployment, scaling, and serving infrastructure
- Optimize inference using NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, Dynamo, Triton, and related tooling
- Partner with software engineering on integration into our broader platform
- Maintain reliability, performance, and observability across deployed models
What We’re Looking For
Required
- Strong hands-on ML/AI engineering experience – you write real code, not just direct others
- Deep proficiency in Python and PyTorch – this is non-negotiable
- Experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying foundation models from scratch or from pretrained checkpoints
- Familiarity with the Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, Datasets, PEFT, Accelerate)
- Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph for agentic pipeline development
- Working knowledge of the NVIDIA stack: TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, Dynamo
- Comfort with large-scale distributed training tools: DeepSpeed, xFormers
- Strong understanding of state-of-the-art model architectures (transformers, SSMs, diffusion, etc.)
- Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams – bio, chem, software, clinical
- Excellent communication skills – you can explain a training run to a chemist
Strongly Preferred
- Experience with omics data (any modality: genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic)
- Background in computational biology, computational chemistry, or bioinformatics
- Prior work in biotech, pharma, or life sciences AI (not required but a plus)
- Experience building or contributing to multi-agent systems in a production environment
- Track record of independent research or open-source contributions in ML
Technical Skills Summary
Core ML / Training
- PyTorch – primary framework
- DeepSpeed – distributed training and ZeRO optimization
- xFormers – memory-efficient attention and transformer components
- Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT, Accelerate
- Training and fine-tuning large language and multimodal models
Inference & Deployment
- NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM – high-performance LLM inference
- NVIDIA Dynamo – inference orchestration and scheduling
- Triton Inference Server – model serving and batching
- Model quantization, distillation, and latency optimization
Agentic & Orchestration
- LangChain / LangGraph – agent design and multi-agent orchestration
- Tool-use, RAG pipelines, and memory systems
- API and system integration across scientific data sources

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Clinical Data Scientist
San Francisco
$160000 - $190000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Clinical Data Scientist
San Francisco, California
Remote
$160,000 – $190,000 + Equity
About the Company
This innovative health tech startup is working to improve the oncology drug development process by providing better patient data to drug developers as well as better access to clinical trials for patients. This series B startup is expending to meet demand.
About the Role
As a Clinical Data Scientist, you’ll execute the last leg of the clinical data pipeline by transforming, cleaning, validating, and delivering high‑quality clinical datasets for pharma partners. Heavy collaboration with Clinical Ops, AI Engineering, and Data Delivery.
Role Responsibilities
- Transform raw, abstracted, and AI‑processed data into CDISC SDTM/ADaM datasets
- Program statistical outputs (tables, listings, figures) in SAS/R/Python
- Investigate data anomalies across multiple messy data inputs
- Define data dictionaries and standards before study kickoff
- Handle data in a HIPAA‑aligned manner
Key Requirements
- 2-5 years in clinical data science, stat programming, or clinical data management
- Pharma/Biotech experience
- SAS, R, Python, SQL
- Real‑world clinical data or oncology trials
- CDISC SDTM/ADaM

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AI Engineer
San Francisco
$200000 - $220000
+ Life Science Analytics
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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AI Engineer
San Francisco, California
Remote
$200,000 – $220,000 + Equity
About the Company
This innovative health tech startup is working to improve the oncology drug development process by providing better patient data to drug developers as well as better access to clinical trials for patients. This series B startup is expending to meet demand.
About the Role
As an AI Engineer, you will design and deliver applied AI systems (LLMs/CV/multimodal) that automate clinical variable abstraction and clinical note generation-with repeatable validation, robust documentation, and HITL feedback loops. Heavy emphasis on data engineering and backend rigor to make models usable and efficient.
Role Responsibilities
- Build models and pipelines across EMR/EHR, imaging, clinical reports
- Translate ambiguous clinical requirements into measurable ML objectives
- Define metrics, design experiments, estimate error; review peer work
- Deliver validated AI components for abstraction/note generation; meaningfully reduce manual QA workload via HITL; standardize documentation/testing; establish performant data manipulation patterns (e.g., PySpark, SQL/Postgres) that speed iteration.
Key Requirements
- Python
- Pytorch or Tensorflow
- Data engineering: PySpark, SQL, Postgres, query tuning, data modeling
- Cloud data platforms (e.g., Databricks, S3/Snowflake/Azure/GCP)
- Nice to have experience in oncology/biotech/health tech

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Computer Vision Engineer
New York
$150000 - $200000
+ Computer Vision
PermanentNew York
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Senior Computer Vision Engineer (2D or 3D – Clinical AI)
About the Company
The mission is simple but ambitious: democratize access to high?quality cardiac care, especially in regions where cardiologists and advanced imaging equipment are scarce.
About the Role
This is a hands-on applied engineering position focused on building and deploying real clinical AI, not academic experiments. You will own production imaging models end?to?end, ensure reliability across diverse clinical settings, and work closely with clinical, regulatory, and deployment teams.
Profile A –
- Segmentation
- Localization
- Ultrasound/Echo image processing
- Signal and noise?robust imaging pipelines
Profile B – 3D Modeling
- Volumetric reconstruction
- 3D geometry and physics-informed modeling
- Computational representations of cardiac structures
Exceptional candidates may be considered for both tracks.
What You Will Own
Computer Vision Development
- Build production-grade CV models used in live cardiac workflows
- Develop 2D segmentation, 3D/4D reconstruction, and mathematical modeling systems
- Optimize models for low?latency clinical deployment
- Debug imaging pipelines across noisy, highly variable datasets
Production ML & Deployment
- Own pipelines from prototype ? production
- Support deployment engineers with real?world constraints
- Maintain model reliability across multiple international regions
- Monitor drift, performance degradation, and operational issues
What We’re Looking For
Required
- Strong experience in Computer Vision (2D and/or 3D)
- Production ML experience-beyond research or academic prototypes
- Background in biomedical or clinical imaging (ultrasound strongly preferred)
- Ability to debug, iterate, and deliver under pressure
- Experience working with deployment or ops engineering teams
- Comfort writing regulatory?oriented technical documentation
- Strong Python + PyTorch skills
- Startup mindset – bias for action, adaptability, ownership

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