Drimva

Chai Discovery

Research Engineer

San Francisco office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 5, 2024

Experience
Deep industry experience is described as an ideal background; no number of years stated.

About the job

Develop core frameworks that make Chai Discovery’s machine-learning models performant, fast, and reliable at scale, supporting AI-driven drug design.

What you'll do

  • Build datasets and algorithms to evaluate and monitor model performance, and analyze failure modes with researchers.
  • Own the distributed training stack, addressing performance and reliability bottlenecks across parallelism, quantization, and kernel optimization.
  • Own and contribute to auto research and auto kernels frameworks.

What they ask for

  • Strong software system design skills.
  • Proficiency in Python.
  • Fluency with Pytorch or JAX.

Nice to have

  • Deep industry experience working with top AI/ML teams on relevant problems.
  • Demonstrated exceptional impact on real-world problems and systems, with deep technical expertise.

Tools

Python, Pytorch, JAX

AI focus

Develop and optimize machine-learning training and evaluation systems for AI drug design, including models advancing from protein structure prediction to therapeutic engineering.

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