Research Engineer - Auto Research

Chai Discovery, Inc

• $130K — $155K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in AI/ML with focus on agent-powered software
  • Strong system design skills
  • Proficiency in Python programming
  • Fluency in either PyTorch or JAX frameworks
  • Demonstrated impact on complex, real-world problems
  • Experience working in collaborative, research-driven teams
  • Background in drug design or therapeutic engineering is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Build agent-powered systems to enhance model training
  • Automate research loops and streamline experimentation
  • Develop tooling and datasets for experiment execution
  • Evaluate experimental results and propose actionable next steps
  • Collaborate with a highly skilled research team to innovate in AI drug design
  • Contribute significantly to shifting focus from protein structure prediction to therapeutic engineering
  • Pioneer new methods that push the boundaries of AI capabilities in drug development

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI drug design
  • Collaborate with a team that values craftsmanship and rigor
  • Chance to influence the future of therapeutic engineering
  • Work in an innovative research-focused environment
  • Access to advanced tools and datasets for experimentation
Full Job Description
Build agent-powered systems and frameworks to improve model training, accelerate inference, and help our research organization move faster. Automate the research loop itself rather than just the models it produces, including the tooling and datasets that allow agents to run experiments, evaluate results and propose next steps. Chai's models are moving beyond protein structure prediction into real-world therapeutic engineering. This is a chance to push the frontier of AI drug design, working alongside a rigorous and craft-obsessed team. Ideal backgrounds include deep industry experience working with top AI/ML teams on agent-powered software-with strong system design skills, proficiency in Python, and Pytorch or JAX fluency. We look for technical spikes where you have gone deep and demonstrated exceptional impact on real-world problems and systems.

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