Xaira Therapeutics
Senior/ Staff AI Research Engineer
$205K–$358K
Seattle, Washington, United States +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 24, 2025
- Location
- Seattle, Washington, United States
South San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Experience
- Minimum of five years of industry experience in AI, machine learning, or related roles.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields; advanced degree preferred.
About the job
Build, scale, and deploy machine learning systems and inference tools that support AI-driven drug discovery and therapeutic design.
What you'll do
- Optimize GPU performance by identifying bottlenecks, streamlining network communication, and writing kernels.
- Scale model training across larger models, datasets, and longer training horizons; implement maintainable architectures.
- Build inference tools for drug design campaigns.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least five years of industry experience in AI, machine learning, or related roles, implementing, scaling, and deploying production AI models.
- Expertise with modern deep learning toolchains and experience with large-scale model training.
- Strong understanding of deep learning fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree.
- Publication record at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR.
Pay
USD $205,000 - $305,000 annually (base pay); USD $235,000 - $358,500 (total cash compensation, up to)
Tools
GPUs, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
AI focus
Apply AI and machine learning to drug discovery, including therapeutic design, model training, and inference workloads.
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