MLOps Research Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area$200k - $235kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Research Engineer to build and own the digital infrastructure supporting Merge Labs' computational workloads, enabling scalable ML workflows from de-novo molecular design to biophysical modeling and computer vision within a brain-computer interface research setting.
Responsibilities
- Build the scientific and engineering scaffolding for active-learning and closed-loop optimization, including data ETL, ML modeling, and library design.
- Collaborate with computational scientists to define tractable optimization objectives and encode domain specific priors and constraints.
- Implement model registries, evaluation frameworks, and automated reporting for benchmarking and experiment comparison.
- Define CI/CD pipelines, resource orchestration (Kubernetes, Ray, Dagster).
- Define and own the ML engineering roadmap, mentoring other computational scientists and establishing best practices for code hygiene, testing, and reproducibility.
Qualifications
- Deep experience in ML infrastructure, systems engineering, and production ML workflows (training → deployment → monitoring).
- Proficiency with Python, PyTorch, JAX, Ray, Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS / GCP / Azure).
- Deep experience with experiment-tracking and model-management tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases).
- Strong grounding in software engineering fundamentals — version control, modular design, CI/CD, and distributed computing.
- A systems-level mindset: you think in terms of model lifecycle, not just single scripts.
- Experience bridging machine learning and experimental science — working with sparse, noisy, and or high-cost data.
- A collaborative, systems-level mindset.
- Familiarity with neuroscience (nice to have).
Skills
Required:ML infrastructurePythonPyTorchJAXRayKubernetesDagsterCloud servicesExperiment-trackingSoftware engineeringSystems thinkingData handling in experimental science
Nice to have:Neuroscience (nice to have)
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Competitive salary $200K – $235K
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Merge Labs
Introducing Merge Labs
Meet Merge Labs – a research lab with the long-term mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency, and experience.
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