Xaira Therapeutics
BioMedical AI Research Engineer
$227K–$295K
South San Francisco, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Mar 31, 2026
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Biomedical Informatics, or related field.
About the job
Designs and deploys agentic AI systems that reason over biomedical information and integrate scientific data into therapeutic discovery workflows.
What you'll do
- Build LLM agents for multi-step reasoning, biomedical information retrieval, synthesis, and tool use.
- Integrate biomedical data and external analysis tools into scalable production systems.
- Evaluate system robustness, reliability, and interpretability, and collaborate to embed systems in discovery pipelines.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Biomedical Informatics, or a related field.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, including fine-tuning, alignment, and structured prompting.
- Experience building agent-based systems or complex LLM orchestration frameworks.
- Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks; experience with large-scale biomedical datasets.
Nice to have
- Experience designing autonomous research assistants or AI systems for multi-step scientific reasoning.
- Familiarity with knowledge graphs, hybrid symbolic-neural systems, or multimodal foundation models; understanding of healthcare AI privacy, security, and regulatory considerations.
Pay
$227,000 - $295,000 annually (USD, base salary)
Tools
LLMs, Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow
AI focus
Build agentic AI systems for biomedical reasoning, scientific data integration, and therapeutic discovery.
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