AI Research Engineer

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Collaborate with a diverse team leveraging AI to design novel protein therapeutics and improve drug discovery processes in a dynamic biotech startup environment.

About Xaira Therapeutics

Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.

Position Overview

Xaira is seeking enthusiastic and motivated candidates to join our team as Research Engineers. We welcome candidates across the spectrum of experience. Teams thrive when they are diverse (across all axes), and we encourage all eligible applicants to apply. 

The role is based in our London office, located near Old Street. Our team is highly collaborative, operating on the belief that hard problems are best solved by multiple people working towards a clear goal, bringing and sharing their expertise with the team. We operate a hybrid working culture based on trust. Members of the team are typically in the office 3 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

  • Industry experience as a research engineer, in an AI-related company.
  • Excited to work, learn and teach within a collaborative team working on challenging problems.

Desirable

Below is a list of qualities/experiences that align with the kinds of things that we are looking for. Please do not read this as an extension of the “requirements” section! We recognise that experiences, opportunities and life-paths vary.

  • Masters (or equivalent)/PhD in AI-related field.
  • Public codebases or contribution to public GitHub repositories.
  • Experience building and training neural networks.
  • Experience in distributed training and inference.
  • Experience profiling and optimising large-scale AI models.
  • Knowledge or experience in BioAI.

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for applying AI to advance drug discovery and improve human health, we encourage you to apply and join us in our mission to make a positive difference in the world.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. Xaira Therapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Xaira Therapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. The company seeks to rethink the drug discovery and development process from end-to-end by bringing together leading talent across three core areas: machine learning research to better understand biology, expansive data generation to power new models, and robust therapeutic product development to treat disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.

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