profluent
Machine Learning Research Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- Emeryville, California, United States; Hybrid (2-3 days on-site)
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Posted
- 2026-04-27T12:43:37-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Cloud
- Engineering
Benefits & Perks
uding health/dental/vision insurance Generous PTO policy and commitment to w
Requirements
You care deeply about model quality, efficiency, and reliability
3+ years of hands-on experience building and training ML models in PyTorch
Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code quality, and version control
Experience implementing or optimizing transformer-based architectures
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerization (GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker)
Strong fundamentals in ML, statistics, and/or linear algebra
Compensation & Benefits
High-growth opportunity with meaningful impact on the future of protein design
Competitive compensation package with equity participation
401(k) with a strong employer match
Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/vision insurance
Generous PTO policy and commitment to work-life balance
Professional development opportunities in a cutting-edge field at the intersection of AI and biology
Responsibilities
Build robust, reproducible and user-friendly pipelines for automated model fine-tuning, alignment and evaluation
Design and implement modular, easy-to-maintain, multi-model pipelines for protein design.
Develop highly scalable ETL pipelines to process petabyte-scale protein data for model pretraining
Develop software and infrastructure that enable the ML team to work quickly and frictionlessly in distributed and multi-cloud environments
Partner with ML and protein design scientists to prototype research ideas and bring them into production