Output

AI x Bio

MemberoftheTechnicalStaff,Pretraining

$120–250k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Member of the Technical Staff, Pretraining at Output. Skills: Foundation Model Architecture, Model Pretraining, Biological Reasoning, Distributed Training. Advance core architecture. Advance training of foundation model”

Industry & Context.

AI x Bio
Problems you'll solve

Data-driven conclusions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

2+ years post-doctoral or industry research experience, 5+ years hands-on research and engineering experience, publication record at top-tier venues, hands-on experience pretraining large models, proficient in Python and PyTorch, experience training models on distributed multi-GPU infrastructure, demonstrated ability to own research-to-training pipeline, write production-quality code, rigorous experimentalist

Nice to Have

background in chemistry, background in biology, background in computational biology, background in biophysics, experience pretraining models on molecular or biological data, experience with multimodal learning, experience with learning from heterogeneous data sources, contributed to open-source machine learning projects

What You'll Do.

Advance core architecture

Advance training of foundation model

Develop training objectives

Run pretraining at scale

Evaluate model learning

Push forward architecture

Push forward training objectives

Design purpose-built approaches

Develop methods for model learning

Build unified representations

Extend model reasoning capabilities

Own pretraining end-to-end

Distributed training on multi-GPU clusters

Hyperparameter optimization

Design evaluation frameworks

Measure biological reasoning

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