Remote ML Research Engineer — Production‑Ready Bio AI

Hlx Life Sciences; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Support for conferences and publications

Job summary

A leading biotech company in the UK is seeking a Research Engineer (Machine Learning) to integrate AI models into a molecular discovery platform. Working in a multidisciplinary team, you will implement cutting-edge ML research into scalable systems, enabling effective experimentation. The ideal candidate has experience in ML infrastructure, strong software skills, and a PhD or MSc in a relevant field. This role is fully remote, offering a competitive salary and significant equity participation.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in fast-paced research or engineering settings, ideally in early-stage environments.
• Proven expertise building ML infrastructure for large-scale training, inference, and deployment.
• Strong proficiency in PyTorch and MLOps/DevOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Implement and productionise ML models by transforming research prototypes into maintainable codebases.
• Design and optimize infrastructure for data ingestion, training, and evaluation.
• Collaborate closely with research scientists for reproducible results.

Skills

Strong proficiency in PyTorch

MLOps/DevOps tooling

Excellent communication skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Proactive, delivery-oriented mindset

Education

PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Weights & Biases

AWS

GCP

Job description

A leading biotech company in the UK is seeking a Research Engineer (Machine Learning) to integrate AI models into a molecular discovery platform. Working in a multidisciplinary team, you will implement cutting-edge ML research into scalable systems, enabling effective experimentation. The ideal candidate has experience in ML infrastructure, strong software skills, and a PhD or MSc in a relevant field. This role is fully remote, offering a competitive salary and significant equity participation.