Senior AI Research Engineer — Scalable Drug Discovery

Xairatherapeutics; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

Xaira Therapeutics in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area seeks an experienced research engineer to join our interdisciplinary team. You will collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, and drug discovery experts to deploy and scale AI models that accelerate therapeutic discovery and development.

We prize production‑ready solutions, rigorous validation, and cross‑functional collaboration to translate research ideas into robust, scalable systems that drive meaningful impact on human health.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of five years of industry experience in AI/ML with production deployment.
• Expertise with modern deep learning toolchains and large-scale model training.
• Strong understanding of deep learning fundamentals.
• Excellent problem-solving with attention to detail in life sciences.
• Effective communication in fast-paced, multidisciplinary teams.
• Publication track record at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks, streamline network chatter, write kernels, and optimize hardware performance.
• Experiment and scale by training bigger models, longer horizons, larger datasets.
• Implement architecture blending biology with tensor thinking; translate molecules to matrices.
• Build tools to support drug design with inference workloads and scalable ML.

Skills

Production AI systems

Large-scale model training

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Deep learning toolchains

Job description

Xaira Therapeutics in Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area seeks an experienced research engineer to join our interdisciplinary team. You will collaborate with AI scientists, engineers, and drug discovery experts to deploy and scale AI models that accelerate therapeutic discovery and development.

We prize production‑ready solutions, rigorous validation, and cross‑functional collaboration to translate research ideas into robust, scalable systems that drive meaningful impact on human health.