Job Description

👩‍💻 Founding ML Engineer - Bioinformatics Focus

💊 Early Stage startup

📍 Los Angeles (can be remote within US with monthly travel)

💸 Competitive base + hefty equity

About

They are an early-stage startup on a mission to transform biology through frontier AI. They're building an intelligent discovery layer that helps scientists navigate the ever-growing universe of biomedical knowledge and datasets. As an early team member, you’ll help define the foundations of AI-first tooling for life science.

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable infrastructure for training, evaluating, and serving ML models tailored to biomedical tasks.
Fine-tune foundation models (LLMs, GNNs, transformers) on biological corpora and structured data (e.g., sequences, pathways, omics).
Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and multi-modal interfaces that integrate literature, experimental data, and structured annotations.
Collaborate with biologists and product teams to ship production-quality tools that accelerate scientific discovery.
Lay the technical groundwork for team growth, mentoring and shaping engineering culture.

Qualifications

4+ years of experience in ML, ideally including time at a startup or research lab.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, Ray, Hugging Face, Kubernetes, Weights & Biases).
Deep familiarity with biological datasets and bioinformatics workflows (e.g., sequence alignment, annotation, pathway enrichment).
Experience fine-tuning or adapting large language models or transformer-based architectures for domain-specific tasks.
Bonus: Experience with scientific QA systems, graph-based reasoning, or training models with limited supervision.

📧 Interested in applying? Please click on the ‘Easy Apply’ button or alternatively email me your resume at stefani.lukic@storm3.com

⚡ Storm3 is a HealthTech & Biotech recruitment firm with clients across major Tech hubs in Europe, APAC and North America. To discuss open opportunities or career options, please visit our website at storm3.com and follow the Storm3 LinkedIn page for the latest jobs and int el

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