Forward Deployed AI Engineer

The role

You will deploy, integrate and optimise generative models within pharmaceutical and biotech customer environments. You will own the full lifecycle of customer deployments and act as the voice of the customer for product and research teams.

What you will do

• Drive end-to-end technical deployment of models into customer environments
• Design and build production-grade API integrations, data pipelines and model-serving infrastructure
• Work on-site or embedded with pharma and biotech partners
• Ensure deployments meet enterprise standards for security, performance and reliability
• Serve as the technical point of contact for assigned customers
• Gather and synthesise customer feedback for product, research and platform teams
• Collaborate with internal teams to shape the product roadmap
• Create technical documentation, integration guides and best-practice resources
• Stay on top of developments in ML infrastructure, model serving and cloud-native tooling
• Gain a working understanding of protein and cell biology

Required qualifications

• Degree (BSc, MSc or PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related quantitative field
• Solid grounding in software engineering principles and modern ML frameworks
• Experience building systems that access large models via APIs
• Experience designing, deploying and maintaining infrastructure for large-scale model serving
• Hands-on experience building robust API layers around ML models
• Direct experience deploying AI systems for external customers
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures

Nice to have

• Experience with GCP or Azure
• Experience with bio or protein design models
• Experience with ML-driven projects in computational biology, protein design, or related life science domains
• Track record of novel contributions to generative modelling through publications, open-source work, or impactful product features
• Experience delivering software that meets enterprise-grade requirements for security, compliance, auditability and uptime
• Pharma or biotech industry experience

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Pension contributions
• Generous leave policies (including gender neutral parental leave)
• Hybrid working
• Travel opportunities

About the company

Latent Labs is building frontier models that learn the fundamentals of biology. The team includes members who co-developed DeepMind’s AlphaFold and invented latent diffusion.