BioMedical AI Research Engineer
Xaira Therapeutics3 months ago
Base Salary
$227k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement agentic AI architectures for biomedical reasoning, planning, and tool use.
- Develop LLM-based agents that retrieve, rank, and synthesize scientific and biomedical information.
- Build memory and feedback mechanisms that enable agents to refine hypotheses and adapt to evolving data.
- Integrate analysis pipelines, simulation engines, statistical models, and databases into autonomous workflows.
- Architect scalable production-grade systems combining structured and unstructured biomedical data.
- Collaborate with computational biologists, translational scientists, and software engineers to deploy systems in discovery pipelines.
- Evaluate the robustness, reliability, and interpretability of autonomous biomedical AI systems.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Biomedical Informatics, or a related field.
- Strong hands-on experience with large language models, including fine-tuning, alignment, and structured prompting.
- Experience building agent-based systems or complex LLM orchestration frameworks, including multi-agent systems, tool-using LLMs, or planning modules.
- Proficiency in Python and modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow.
- Experience with large-scale biomedical datasets, including genomics, transcriptomics, clinical records, or scientific corpora.
- Preferred experience designing autonomous research assistants or AI systems for multi-step scientific reasoning.
- Preferred familiarity with knowledge graphs, hybrid symbolic-neural systems, or multimodal foundation models.
- Understanding of privacy, security, and regulatory considerations in healthcare AI.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package including base salary, bonus, and equity.
- Open, flexible, and friendly work environment with opportunities for long-term career development.
- A Summary of Benefits is available to all applicants.
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About Xaira Therapeutics
Xaira Therapeutics builds AI models to design proteins and antibodies and applies them to discover and develop new medicines. Its platform spans foundation models for biology, target identification, and patient stratification, supporting an internal pipeline of therapeutics against hard-to-drug targets. Founded in 2023, the privately held company is headquartered in South San Francisco with operations in Seattle and London.