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

Iambic Therapeutics · Boston Office

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop post-training methods for Enchant, a multimodal biomedical foundation model.
  • Put powerful foundation models in hands of scientists making therapeutic decisions.
  • Design reward functions and RL strategies to push drug-discovery capabilities.

What they offer

  • Company-paid healthcare
  • 401(k) matching
  • Uncapped vacation
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Voluntary life insurance

Ideal candidate

A curious researcher with a PhD mindset who loves rigorous experimentation and wants foundation models to drive real therapeutic breakthroughs, thriving in close collaboration with scientists and engineers.

Requirements

  • PhD in machine learning, computer science, computational chemistry, physics, or related computational STEM field, or equivalent industry experience
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills, including implementing, training, debugging and evaluating deep learning models end-to-end
  • Demonstrated experience training large-scale transformer models
  • Demonstrated experience in reinforcement learning such as RLHF, RLAIF, PPO, GRPO, RL with verifiable rewards (strongly preferred)
  • Experience with supervised fine-tuning, full-parameter fine-tuning, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA), or related methods
  • Experience with systematic hyperparameter optimization or large-scale experimentation using Optuna, Ray Tune, or similar
  • Strong engineering practices: reproducible experimentation, clean code, testing, and performance-aware debugging
  • Comfort with modern ML infrastructure such as Docker, CUDA, Kubernetes and Weights & Biases
remote policy
Remote with option to be on-site in Boston

Lab profile

About Iambic Therapeutics

AI-powered biotech discovering differentiated small-molecule therapeutics, with early oncology programs in clinic.

What they build

  • Phase 1 oncology clinical program
  • IND-stage small-molecule pipeline
  • Enchant drug-target prediction platform

Known for

  • AI and machine learning for drug discovery
  • Multimodal transformers for drug-target interactions
  • Medicinal chemistry and lead optimization
  • Automated experimentation

Key facts

  • Headquartered in San Diego
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