Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will work directly with customers to understand their ML systems and deploy AutoScience into their infrastructure. You will turn ambiguous modeling problems into environments for automated researchers to run experiments.

What you will do

• Work directly with customers to understand their ML systems
• Deploy AutoScience into customer infrastructure
• Turn ambiguous modeling problems into environments for automated researchers
• Write production code
• Work inside real ML pipelines
• Debug distributed systems
• Reason about machine learning challenges
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams
• Own deployments end-to-end from technical conversation to model improvement

Required qualifications

• Strong engineer who likes operating where the problem is poorly specified
• Strong interpersonal judgment and communication skills
• Build trust with teammates and stakeholders
• Collaborate effectively across different working styles and areas of expertise
• Enjoyment from socializing with technical and non-technical customers
• Comfortable opening an unfamiliar ML repository, understanding how the system works, getting it running, identifying what matters, and shipping something useful quickly

Nice to have

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and excellent Python skills
• Experience building, training, evaluating, or deploying machine learning systems
• Experience working with production cloud infrastructure and containerized workloads
• Strong debugging skills across software, infrastructure, data, and ML systems
• Experience owning technically complex projects from an ambiguous starting point through production
• Good judgment about when to build something robust and when to move quickly
• The ability to communicate deeply technical ideas with researchers, engineers, and technical leaders
• An eagerness to spend significant time working directly with customers
• A high degree of autonomy and comfort working in a fast-moving environment

Benefits

• Comp is competitive against major LLM frontier lab packages
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible working arrangements
• Conference attendance and publication support

About the company

Autoscience Institute creates AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research. They are a team of researchers and engineers working to automate scientific discovery.