Machine Learning Research Engineer
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.2 months ago
Cambridge, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$120k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy ML-powered applications leveraging large language models for wellbeing challenges.
- Collaborate with psychological experts to translate interdisciplinary insights into computational frameworks.
- Advance context engineering, agentic AI, and learning from human feedback.
- Build scalable pipelines for data collection, labeling, training, and deployment of LLM-based systems.
- Support integration of ML systems into real-world applications with measurable outcomes.
- Communicate findings to multidisciplinary audiences.
Requirements
- Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Proven experience deploying LLM-powered applications in production environments.
- Experience with PyTorch, vLLM, and LangGraph.
- Proficiency in Python, ML development tools, large-scale data pipelines, preprocessing, and standard evaluation protocols.
- Master’s-level or higher experience in computer science, machine learning, or AI is preferred but may be relaxed for exceptional candidates.
- Publications at leading ML or NLP venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, or EMNLP are a bonus.
- Strong communication, presentation, independent-thinking, and collaboration skills are required.
- Previous startup experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits, and other benefits are offered.
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About Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
Flagship Pioneering invents, builds, and finances platform biotechnology companies in human health and sustainability, providing founding science, capital, and operational support to entrepreneurs and researchers. The privately held firm, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, has originated more than 100 ventures and maintains an ecosystem of 40+ companies. Notable portfolio companies include Moderna, Denali Therapeutics, Generate:Biomedicines, Indigo Agriculture, and Tessera Therapeutics.