Applied Research Engineer - Post-Training for Drug Discovery

Helical; City Of London; Vor Ort; GBP 75.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Helical is building the in-silico labs for biology and seeks an Applied Research Engineer - Post-Training to maximize the performance of foundation models for drug discovery. The role focuses on turning general-purpose models into therapeutic tools for pharma clients.

You will own the post-training lifecycle from alignment to production, design pipelines, validate outputs biologically, and ship capabilities to customers running experiments that inform clinical programs.

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing post-training pipelines for foundation models in biology or pharma.
• Ability to validate model outputs biologically using domain data and benchmarks.
• Experience working with distributed GPU infrastructure and ML tooling.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement post-training pipelines that align biological foundation models to therapeutic contexts.
• Build validation frameworks connecting model improvements to biological ground truth.
• Own experiments end-to-end from hypothesis to training runs and client delivery.
• Collaborate with ML engineers and biologists to ensure outputs are scientifically meaningful.

Kenntnisse

Post-training pipelines

Biological foundation models

Distributed GPU training

Collaboration with ML & biology teams

Tools

helical-package

OpenTargets

Jobbeschreibung

Helical is building the in-silico labs for biology and seeks an Applied Research Engineer - Post-Training to maximize the performance of foundation models for drug discovery. The role focuses on turning general-purpose models into therapeutic tools for pharma clients.

You will own the post-training lifecycle from alignment to production, design pipelines, validate outputs biologically, and ship capabilities to customers running experiments that inform clinical programs.