Job Description

👩‍💻 Founding ML Engineer - Bioinformatics Focus

💊 Early Stage startup

📍 Los Angeles (can be remote within US with monthly travel)

💸 Competitive base + hefty equity

About

They are an early-stage startup on a mission to transform biology through frontier AI. They're building an intelligent discovery layer that helps scientists navigate the ever-growing universe of biomedical knowledge and datasets. As an early team member, you’ll help define the foundations of AI-first tooling for life science.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable infrastructure for training, evaluating, and serving ML models tailored to biomedical tasks.
• Fine-tune foundation models (LLMs, GNNs, transformers) on biological corpora and structured data (e.g., sequences, pathways, omics).
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and multi-modal interfaces that integrate literature, experimental data, and structured annotations.
• Collaborate with biologists and product teams to ship production-quality tools that accelerate scientific discovery.
• Lay the technical groundwork for team growth, mentoring and shaping engineering culture.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in ML, ideally including time at a startup or research lab.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, Ray, Hugging Face, Kubernetes, Weights & Biases).
• Deep familiarity with biological datasets and bioinformatics workflows (e.g., sequence alignment, annotation, pathway enrichment).
• Experience fine-tuning or adapting large language models or transformer-based architectures for domain-specific tasks.
• Bonus: Experience with scientific QA systems, graph-based reasoning, or training models with limited supervision.

📧 Interested in applying? Please click on the ‘Easy Apply’ button or alternatively email me your resume at stefani.lukic@storm3.com

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