Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI

NLP PEOPLE; Canada; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior ML Engineer to lead the design and development of core components of their AI platform. In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to create robust machine learning systems that push the boundaries of drug discovery. You will be responsible for building scalable workflows, integrating experiment tracking, and ensuring high standards in software engineering practices. This position offers a collaborative environment at the forefront of computational biology and machine learning, with competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. If you are passionate about making a significant impact in drug discovery, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Health, vision, and dental coverage

Flexible work environment

Learning and development budget

Maternity and parental leave top-up

Unlimited personal days

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in ML or Software Engineering focused on ML systems.
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale ML workflows with ML scientists and data scientists.
• Engineer robust data pipelines for scalability and reliability.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

Software Engineering

Data Pipelines

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Docker

Kubernetes

Weights & Biases

Job description

About Us
Deep Genomics is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence to transform drug discovery. Our proprietary AI platform decodes the complexity of genome biology to identify novel drug targets, mechanisms, and therapeutics inaccessible through traditional methods. With expertise spanning machine learning, bioinformatics, data science, engineering, and drug development, our multidisciplinary team in Toronto and Cambridge, MA is revolutionizing how new medicines are created.

Where You Fit In
As a Senior ML Engineer, you bring deep expertise in building robust production-grade machine learning systems and infrastructure. You’ll lead the design, development and maintenance of core components of our AI platform – spanning training pipelines, scalable inference, evaluation frameworks, experiment tracking and reproducible tooling. Collaborating closely with teams across engineering, machine learning, and biology, you’ll help push the boundaries of drug discovery through thoughtfully engineered systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Build and scale ML workflows: Collaborate closely with ML scientists and data scientists to design, implement and maintain reliable systems for model training, evaluation, and inference.
2. Enable experiment tracking and reproducibility: Integrate model development workflows with tools such as Weights & Biases.
3. Engineer robust data pipelines: Develop and maintain data ingestion and processing pipelines for scalability, reproducibility, reliability.
4. Prototype and iterate quickly: Partner with stakeholders to rapidly develop proof-of-concepts.
5. Promote software engineering best practices: Drive high standards in code quality, modular design, testing and CI/CD.

Basic Qualifications

1. 3+ years of experience working as an ML Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar technical role focused on ML systems.
2. Hands-on experience with modern ML frameworks, such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
3. Proficient in Python, with a strong grasp of software architecture, design patterns, and a deep understanding of engineering best practices.
4. Experience with containerization and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
5. Ability to mentor and elevate other team members’ skills.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Track record of shipping ML prototypes to production in fast-paced, iterative environments (e.g. startups or research-heavy teams).
2. Familiarity with ML workflow orchestration and tracking tools, such as Weights & Biases, Metaflow, MLFlow, Kubeflow, Ray, or similar tools.
3. Proficiency with cloud providers (preferably GCP), including managing compute, storage, and infrastructure for ML workloads.
4. Experience working with biological or genomic data and applications.

What we offer

1. A collaborative and innovative environment at the frontier of computational biology, machine learning, and drug discovery.
2. Highly competitive compensation, including meaningful stock ownership.
3. Comprehensive benefits – including health, vision, and dental coverage for employees and families, employee and family assistance program.
4. Flexible work environment – including flexible hours, extended long weekends, holiday shutdown, unlimited personal days.
5. Maternity and parental leave top-up coverage, as well as new parent paid time off.
6. Focus on learning and growth for all employees – learning and development budget & lunch and learns.
7. Facilities located in the heart of Toronto – the epicenter of machine learning and AI research and development, and in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Mass. – a global center of biotechnology and life sciences.

Deep Genomics welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Deep Genomics thanks all applicants, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Deep Genomics

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Level of experience (years):

Senior (5+ years of experience)

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