Founding Principal ML Engineer — Drug Discovery AI & Equity

Generative; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biotech firm in London is looking for a founding Principal Machine Learning Engineer to architect AI systems and work on cutting-edge models impacting drug development. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in ML system deployment, expertise in PyTorch, and a collaborative spirit to drive innovation alongside scientists. This opportunity offers significant equity and ownership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and deploying ML systems at scale.
• Proven track record of building research environments and deploying production-ready models.
• Experience in cloud and containerized deployment.

Responsibilities

• Architect cloud infrastructure for distributed ML pipelines using PyTorch.
• Design, prototype, and train large models integrating multi-omic and clinical data.
• Lead MLOps: CI/CD, model deployment, experiment tracking.

Skills

ML systems deployment

Expertise in PyTorch

Cloud deployment

Interest in biology

Tools

ML Flow

Weights & Biases

Sagemaker

Ray

Job description

A leading biotech firm in London is looking for a founding Principal Machine Learning Engineer to architect AI systems and work on cutting-edge models impacting drug development. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in ML system deployment, expertise in PyTorch, and a collaborative spirit to drive innovation alongside scientists. This opportunity offers significant equity and ownership.