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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** PROTEUS INC
- **Location:** Brisbane, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Python (Programming Language), Pytorch, Large Language Models, Fastapi, HuggingFace
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/74873664-founding-engineer

## About the Role

PyTorch and Hugging Face: Transformers, TRL, Accelerate

 - SFT / instruction tuning

 - LoRA, QLoRA and PEFT, LLM agents and tool calling

 - LangGraph/stateful workflow orchestration

 - RAG, memory and context engineering

 - Structured outputs and typed tool schemas

 - Agent evaluations, tracing and observability

 - Secure sandboxed code execution

 - Python, FastAPI, async jobs, containers

AND

 * Ideally knows biology, although curiosity and the ability to learn quickly matter more
 * Wants to leave the world better than they found it

Biology experience is valuable, but not required. We care more about what you have built, how you think, and whether you take ownership than where you went to school.



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