Machine Learning Engineer

Our Mission

To restore cell health and resilience through cellular rejuvenation programming to reverse disease, injury, and the disabilities that can occur throughout life.

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Who You Are

• Proven track record leveraging machine learning to solve real-world problems;
• Expertise in a large subset of the following: deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative models, language models, computer vision, Bayesian inference, causal reasoning & inference, transfer & multi-task learning, graph neural networks, active learning, hybrid mechanistic/ML models;
• Expertise in computational infrastructure for deep learning including GPUs, TPUs, cloud-based machine learning;
• Experience with modern machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch or similar;
• Excellent communicator, both 1:1 and as a presenter to multi-faceted audiences. Ability to communicate technical concepts to people less familiar with the field;
• Brings a can-do attitude that approaches problems and opportunities with curiosity and creativity;
• Attentive to detail with excellent time management, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills;
• Thrives in collaborative environments, thinks pragmatically, works flexibly, and uses good judgment;
• Committed to contributing to making the work environment inclusive and enabling colleagues to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of the organizational objectives;
• Excitement about the Altos mission of investigating cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience, with the goal of reversing disease to transform medicine;
• Deep analytical thinker and problem solver;
• Team player - enjoys working on larger efforts with others and puts the success of their team above their own;
• Growth mindset - desire to constantly expand your skillset and knowledge. Keen to learn more about biology, computational science, and medicine;
• Bonus: Experience in cell health and rejuvenation related research area;
• Bonus: Experience in the application of machine learning methods to biological data;
• Bonus: Experience in computational approaches to drug discovery;
• Bonus: Proven track record in open-source software development, e.g., demonstrated by high-impact github repository;
• Bonus: Proven track record of high-caliber scientific work, e.g., demonstrated through publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Responsibilities

• Implement large-scale machine learning algorithms and systems, and their application to biological datasets;
• Develop new statistical and machine learning-based methods for analyzing biological data to produce biological insights about cell health and rejuvenation;
• Train and optimize machine learning models on large, complex datasets;
• Preprocess and clean data for machine learning model input;
• Partner with world-class biologists across Altos to help generate biological insights with the goal of developing therapies;
• Help create machine learning based computational tools to support biological and biomedical research at Altos;
• Bring computational thinking to bear on Altos’ mission and challenges, ranging from modeling biological phenomena to supporting the research process and culture at Altos through computation and AI;
• Continuously learn and stay up-to-date on the latest developments in the field of deep learning for biological discovery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field;
• Strong programming skills, including experience with Python and deep learning libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch;
• Experience with machine learning and deep learning applied to biological data;
• Strong understanding of machine learning concepts, including model training, generalization and optimization;
• Experience with distributed machine learning;
• Experience with non-tabular data, such as image or text data;
• Familiarity with biological concepts and terminology.

The salary for the Machine Learning Engineer I is £55,250 - £74,750
The salary for the Machine Learning Engineer II is £66,300 - £89,700

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