Founding Engineer

PROTEUS INC
San Francisco, CA, United States
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Python (Programming Language) Pytorch Large Language Models Fastapi HuggingFace

Requirements

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.

About the company

We are hiring an ML Engineer or an AI Engineer to join Proteus in San Francisco/London.

Company Description: We are building a Biological Intelligence Platform for the autonomous discovery of personalised medicine. Our platform reasons over disease targets, designs therapeutic and diagnostic candidates, and continuously learns from experimental results.

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