Drug Discovery AI Engineer

Scorpion Therapeutics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to embed with cross-functional teams, delivering practical AI/ML solutions that accelerate drug discovery and improve decision‑making. You will design, build, and deploy ML models and AI-powered tools, ensuring privacy, ethics, and regulatory alignment from the start.

You will lead advisory work, co-design PoCs, and translate stakeholder needs into well-scoped solutions with measurable success criteria.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in CS/ML/Computational Biology/Bioinformatics/Statistics/Engineering (or related) OR equivalent software/ML experience.
• 2+ years ML model development/deployment (with Bachelor’s); 2+ years with Master’s or PhD.
• Python; PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX/scikit-learn/pandas/numpy.
• Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Strong ML fundamentals (supervised/unsupervised, deep learning, evaluation, feature engineering, experiment tracking).
• Cross-functional communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• Healthcare/pharma/biological domain experience.

Responsibilities

• Advisory & Solution Design: Provide tailored guidance on AI/ML use cases, feasibility, model selection, and deployment options.
• Model Development & Deployment: Build, train, evaluate, and iterate on ML models for scientific and business problems; package models into production-ready services; develop agentic AI systems.
• Knowledge Transfer & Enablement: Run workshops to increase AI literacy and embed in business/research units for time-limited engagements (6–8 weeks).

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

scikit-learn

pandas

numpy

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

LLM/agentic AI

LangChain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/ML/ Computational Biology/Bioinformatics/Statistics/Engineering

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to embed with cross-functional teams, delivering practical AI/ML solutions that accelerate drug discovery and improve decision‑making. You will design, build, and deploy ML models and AI-powered tools, ensuring privacy, ethics, and regulatory alignment from the start.

You will lead advisory work, co-design PoCs, and translate stakeholder needs into well-scoped solutions with measurable success criteria.