Iambic Therapeutics
Machine Learning Scientist — Large Multimodal Models (Post-Training)
Boston Office · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; candidates range from recent PhD graduates to experienced researchers.
- Education
- PhD in machine learning, computer science, computational chemistry, physics, or a related computational STEM field, or equivalent industry experience demonstrating comparable depth.
About the job
Research and develop post-training methods, evaluations, and deployment infrastructure for a multimodal foundation model used in drug discovery.
What you'll do
- Develop post-training strategies, objectives, reward functions, and data-generation approaches for multimodal models.
- Build experimentation, benchmarking, and inference optimization workflows; productionize models and evaluation systems with engineering colleagues.
- Work with drug-discovery scientists to align model development with scientific needs and communicate results.
What they ask for
- PhD in a computational STEM field or equivalent industry experience demonstrating comparable depth.
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills for implementing, training, debugging, and evaluating deep learning models end-to-end.
- Demonstrated experience training large-scale transformer models.
- Experience with supervised or parameter-efficient fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or systematic hyperparameter optimization; strong engineering practices and comfort with modern ML infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience with multimodal or multi-task architectures, training or inference optimization, distributed training, or HPC.
- Familiarity with biomedical, chemical, or biological data domains.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, LoRA, Optuna, Ray Tune, Docker, CUDA, Kubernetes, Weights & Biases
AI focus
Post-training large multimodal foundation models for drug discovery, including fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reward optimization, evaluation, and inference deployment.
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