Machine Learning Research Engineer (MLRE) - Research
Achira· Machine Learning
Hybrid (San Francisco Office), Hybrid (New York Office)$164.6k - $259kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Role at Achira combining applied machine learning research with rigorous software engineering to advance foundation simulation models for AI x Chemistry in drug discovery. Hybrid, full-time position based in San Francisco or New York with travel to SF as needed.
Responsibilities
- Design and run experiments to test hypotheses on the path to foundation model development.
- Engineer meaningful evals and metrics which enable rapid model iteration.
- Design, build and maintain scalable, reproducible libraries for training, experimentation evaluation, and simulation, in service of large-scale research initiatives.
- Implement model architectures both from the literature and developed in collaboration with in-house researchers that push the boundaries of molecular simulation.
- Enable agent-driven research and workflows and maintain guardrails on agentic tooling.
- Help prepare manuscripts, software artifacts, and datasets for public release.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, with experience not just building one-off scripts but reproducible pipelines for research, writing necessary documentation, and observing coding best-practices.
- Track record of observable artifacts (e.g., GitHub, papers) showing work in ML or scientific computing libraries.
- Solid working knowledge of PyTorch and JAX and the modern ML research stack.
- Comfortable with HPC or large-scale compute environments, and used to thinking on the scale of hundreds or thousands (or even more!) fits running at once.
- Sufficient scientific depth to engage with the research questions, whether developed through prior industry experience or during a PhD.
Skills
Required:Software engineering for reproducible research pipelinesML framework proficiency (PyTorch, JAX)Large-scale compute / HPC experience
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Achira
Building foundation simulation models for drug discovery
Achira is building atomistic foundation simulation models to power the future of drug discovery.
drug discoverysimulation modelsmachine learningquantum chemistrybiomolecular applications
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