Xaira Therapeutics
Software Engineer, ML Platform
Seattle, Washington, United States · Senior
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$20,118 more — $160,118 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $160,118 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Data Scientists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- This role spans a range of problems and skillsets, ranging from MLOps of cutting-edge GPU clusters, to backend engineering of control plane APIs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve our model training system, responsible for dispatching distributed training jobs to clusters across multiple clouds.
- Build evaluation infrastructure that enables easy execution and tracking.
- Build base tooling for integrating model training with other internal infrastructure, such as telemetry, experiment tracking, and checkpointing.
- 5+ years of industry experience building and deploying ML systems in production environments
- Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.
- Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.
Requirements
- Experience with infrastructure/ops tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
- Experience with the infrastructure needs of large-scale model training.
- Prior experience with biology is not required - we will teach what you need to know.
Nice to have
- Preferred Skills and Qualifications
Skills
- About Xaira Therapeutics
- Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development.
- Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development.
- Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.
Compensation
- We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers.
- We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity.
- The base pay range for this position is expected to be $140,000 - $215,000 annually
- however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.
Benefits
- You'll get to go in the lab, and for our ideal candidate, this should be a perk, not a chore!
- Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, or a related field.
- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Torch, Jax.
- Solid understanding of machine learning
- A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants.
This listing is sourced directly from Xaira Therapeutics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.