Machine Learning Scientist — Large Multimodal Models (Post-Training)

Clinical-stage life-science and technology company that develops medicines using an AI-driven discovery and development platform.

San Diego, United States
About Iambic Therapeutics

Iambic Therapeutics combines proprietary AI technologies, including Enchant and NeuralPLexer, with automated chemistry and biology experimentation to discover and develop small-molecule medicines. Its current pipeline includes clinical and preclinical oncology candidates.

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About the Role

You will research and develop post-training strategies for large multimodal foundation models. You will design reward functions, training objectives, data-generation approaches, evaluation protocols, experimentation workflows, and inference optimizations. You will build benchmarking systems, productionize models and services, collaborate on drug-discovery applications, communicate results, and write tested, documented research and engineering code.

Requirements

  • PhD in machine learning, computer science, computational chemistry, physics, or a related computational STEM field, or equivalent industry experience
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Experience implementing, training, debugging, and evaluating deep learning models
  • Experience training large-scale transformer models
  • Experience with reinforcement learning or fine-tuning methods
  • Hyperparameter optimization or large-scale experimentation
  • Reproducible experimentation, clean code, testing, and performance-aware debugging
  • Docker
  • CUDA
  • Kubernetes
  • Experiment tracking

Responsibilities

  • Research and develop post-training strategies for multimodal foundation models
  • Design reward functions, training objectives, data-generation strategies, and evaluation protocols
  • Build experimentation and hyperparameter-optimization workflows
  • Develop inference-optimization techniques for evaluation and discovery workflows
  • Design and maintain benchmarking and evaluation frameworks
  • Collaborate to productionize models, evaluation systems, and inference services
  • Partner with scientific specialists to ground model development in drug-discovery needs
  • Communicate results to internal teams, external partners, and conferences
  • Write, test, document, and package machine learning components

Benefits

  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance
  • Pension contributions
  • Flexible holiday allowances
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