Drimva

Profluent

Machine Learning Scientist, Pretraining

$212K–$339K

Emeryville, California, United States +2 · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026

Location
Emeryville, California, United States
Hybrid (2-3 days on-site)
Emeryville, California, United States
Experience
No specific number of years stated.
Education
PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Applied Math, Computational Biology, Statistics, or a related field.
Visa sponsorship
Legal authorization to work in the United States is required; new hires must verify identity and work eligibility and complete the required employment verification form.

About the job

Conduct research and build large-scale pretrained generative and representation-learning models for biomolecular and protein design.

What you'll do

  • Design and develop autoregressive, diffusion, and representation-learning models for protein design.
  • Build and optimize infrastructure for pretraining protein language models, and curate datasets and evaluation tasks.
  • Collaborate across machine-learning and protein-design teams; analyze results and present findings.

What they ask for

  • PhD or equivalent industry experience in a related field.
  • Experience conceiving, implementing, and evaluating novel machine-learning and pretraining approaches for large-scale LLMs or other biomolecular models.
  • Publications at named major ML conferences or scientific journals, or experience pretraining LLMs at frontier AI/ML labs.
  • Experience with modern deep-learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Jax.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with protein and nucleic-acid biology or experience developing protein ML models.
  • Experience with cloud compute, bioinformatics data curation, or wet-lab assays.

Pay

$212,000 — $339,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

Pytorch, Jax, GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI

AI focus

Pretraining and developing generative, language, diffusion, and representation-learning models for biomolecular and protein design.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)