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Genentech

Machine Learning Engineer, LLM

Genentech, New York, New York, us, 10261


The Position

The Position

A healthier future. It's what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That's what makes us Roche.

At Genentech Computational Sciences (gCS) Prescient Design, we are revolutionizing drug discovery with cutting-edge machine learning techniques. We are seeking talented engineers with a passion for building large-scale, distributed machine learning algorithms and systems that will transform the drug discovery process. gCS Prescient Design is seeking an exceptional Machine Learning Engineer to develop our LLMs and AI product and enable the next generation of foundational research in machine learning for scientific discovery. We are looking for someone who is not only passionate about technical problem-solving but also has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions in machine learning.

The Opportunity

You will be involved in the end-to-end development of LLMs: data preparation and cleaning, implementation of scalable data loaders for text and multimodal data, LLM architecture design and modification for optimal performance, throughput, and inference speed, development of LLM-based products including finetuning and RAG, and development/maintenance of APIs for the users of the LLMs.

You will participate in cutting-edge research in LLMs and methods development for drug discovery.

You will develop LLMs including pretraining and finetuning, as well as deploy models in production environments, working closely with other engineers to ensure scalability and reliability.

You will solve core engineering challenges including the design, implementation, and scaling of our data, training, and deployment pipeline

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across both Prescient Design and gRED to solve complex problems in the life sciences.

You will join a group that provides a dynamic and challenging environment for multidisciplinary research including access to heterogeneous data sources, close links to top academic institutions around the world, as well as collaborations with internal Genentech and Roche teams.

Who you are

You have an MS/BS in Computer Science, Statistics, related field, or equivalent experience and 2+ years of industry experience in machine learning

You have demonstrated success in technical capabilities in developing and deploying machine learning models in production environments

You have strong programming skills in Python

You have extensive experience with deep learning and distributed training frameworks such as PyTorch and Deepspeed

Preferred

You will have extensive experience in developing machine learning models, especially LLMs, from various aspects including pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, etc.

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Relocation benefits are available for this posting

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of New York is $144,900 - 269,800. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors

Benefits

Genentech is an equal opportunity employer, and we embrace the increasingly diverse world around us. Genentech prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status and veteran status.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer & prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, disability, marital & veteran status.

Minimum Salary: 31200.00 Maximum Salary: 31200.00 Salary Unit: Yearly