Member of Technical Staff - AI Research Engineer

FutureHouse is a new, non-profit AI-for-science lab using AI to automate research in biology and other complex sciences. We are backed by Eric Schmidt, and our mission is to build AI systems that can scale scientific research and allow humanity to proceed as quickly as possible to find cures for disease, solutions for climate change, and other species-accelerating technologies.

We are seeking AI Research Engineers with experience designing and developing data pipelines and models for LLM training, experimentation, and deployment. We seek candidates who possess a keen desire to use the forefront of ML & AI technology to accelerate scientific research.

This role is based in our San Francisco, CA office.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement large-scale data pipelines to optimize precision + recall, dependability, and processing speed.
• Lead training and orchestration of multi-agent LLMs systems, including model fine-tuning and creation of custom embeddings.
• Develop and extend our experimentation platform for internal tools and projects.
• Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of AI researchers, chemists biologists, fostering an environment of innovation and discovery.

Requirements:

• Experience working with data and ML systems: EDA, feature engineering, model development, model deployment, and validation in production systems.
• Familiarity with modeling in PyTorch, Jax or equivalent framework.
• Demonstrated experience with experimentation in academic or industry settings.
• Strong programming expertise with the capability to adapt to various technical challenges in the data, ML, and LLM software stack.

Nice to have:

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or other quantitive field
• Experience training embeddings with custom evaluation set and corpus
• Experience utilizing custom agents, and employing techniques such as RAG
• Familiarity with leveraging and managing distributed systems

What we offer:

• Everyone who works here is insanely smart.
• We are working on problems that are way more interesting than what you'll find anywhere else. Why sell ads or optimize buttons when you can solve science and make breakthrough discoveries in basic research?
• We have a ton of resources, including wet lab, compute, etc.
• We publish our work.
• Our headquarters in Dogpatch (SF) is super cool.

And also the normal HR stuff:

• Competitive compensation
• Great medical benefits at low or no cost to you
• Flexible time off
• The ability to join an ambitious start-up on the ground floor

What to expect from FutureHouse:

• We are tight-knit and collaborative research culture.
• We are fiercely committed to a flat structure, team science, and individual contributions: we believe that the way to enable discoveries is to enable small, integrated teams of outstanding biologists and AI researchers to iterate rapidly towards ‘big-if-true’ ideas.
• We work to flexibly hire the best talent in the world and to enable that talent to pursue their best ideas without the normal distractions, like product engineering, grant writing, etc.