Senior AI Scientist - Biotech NLP & Production Systems

Biorce; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook provided

Hybrid work model

Private health coverage

Pet-friendly office

Team events

Job summary

Biorce in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior AI Scientist to join our AI Open Source team. You will fine-tune, evaluate, and serve language models powering our clinical trial AI product, working at the intersection of ML research and bioscience.

This early-stage biotech startup offers a fast-paced environment, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to publish research and contribute open-source work as our US presence grows.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree (MS/PhD) or equivalent industry experience in ML/NLP or related field.
• Experience fine-tuning large language models.
• Strong understanding of modern reinforcement learning techniques for language models.
• Experience with model inference and serving at scale.
• Strong Python and ML framework experience.
• Experience building or working with retrieval systems.
• Familiarity with MLOps practices (experiment tracking, versioning, reproducibility).
• Ability to read, evaluate, and apply research papers to real product problems.

Responsibilities

• Fine-tune and evaluate proprietary language models for domain-specific tasks
• Design and build custom retrieval systems tailored to clinical trial data
• Own aspects of the production inference stack, balancing quality, latency, and cost
• Apply reinforcement learning and related techniques to improve model behavior
• Collaborate with the Data team to define what 'good' training and evaluation data looks like
• Translate applied bioscience and clinical domain knowledge into model and data design decisions
• Partner with AI Engineers to productionize research improvements
• Track the research literature and evaluate new techniques for real-world applicability
• Contribute to publications and open-source releases as the team's work matures

Skills

Fine-tune LLMs

Reinforcement learning

Python

ML frameworks

Retrieval systems

MLOps

Model inference

Research papers

Education

MS/PhD in ML/NLP or related field

Job description

Biorce in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior AI Scientist to join our AI Open Source team. You will fine-tune, evaluate, and serve language models powering our clinical trial AI product, working at the intersection of ML research and bioscience.

This early-stage biotech startup offers a fast-paced environment, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to publish research and contribute open-source work as our US presence grows.