London-based ML Research Engineer: Foundation Models for Drug Discovery

Novogaia, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Novogaia, Inc. is seeking a machine learning research engineer to lead Gaia-02 model development, shaping architecture decisions and building scalable training/evaluation pipelines. You will collaborate with chemists to design benchmarks and evaluate novel representations for spectra and molecular graphs.

You will drive state-of-the-art modeling, communicate findings across teams, and help set R&D priorities while working in London.

Qualifications

• Experience owning foundation model development and generating new modeling ideas.
• Design or modify architectures such as transformers or graph neural networks and improve performance through architectural changes.
• Excellent technical communication to explain findings to researchers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Gaia-02 model development and architecture experiments.
• Set modeling direction and run architecture reviews.
• Turn training/evaluation code into reproducible, scalable pipelines.
• Represent mass spectra and molecular structures as model inputs and benchmark pipelines.
• Collaborate with chemists to build trustworthy benchmarks for structure prediction.

Skills

Foundation model development

Transformers

Graph neural networks

Python

Experimental design

Technical communication

Tools

Docker/Containerization

Reproducible pipelines

Experiment tracking

Job description

Novogaia, Inc. is seeking a machine learning research engineer to lead Gaia-02 model development, shaping architecture decisions and building scalable training/evaluation pipelines. You will collaborate with chemists to design benchmarks and evaluate novel representations for spectra and molecular graphs.

You will drive state-of-the-art modeling, communicate findings across teams, and help set R&D priorities while working in London.