Machine Learning Scientist — Large Multimodal Models (Post-Training)
Iambic Therapeutics · Boston Office
CHECKED 8H AGO
Bio & Science AIremote
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