Australia, USA
Software Engineer, AI/ML
We’re hiring an ambitious AI engineer who wants to collaborate with PhD chemists on deep technical problems, and ship real product from day one. You’ll work directly with the founders and a team of engineers and scientists on vertical-specific AI challenges in one of the world’s most important industries.
Responsibilities
Build and deploy AI systems to structure messy, unstructured chemical and scientific data
Train and fine-tune LLMs, embedding models, and pipelines for semantic search and structured extraction
Collaborate across product, engineering, and domain teams to turn research into real features
Move fast, experiment, and iterate on models in production
Bringing the latest cutting edge techniques and experiment with new things
Personal attributes
Highly motivated and intellectually curious, with a strong desire to grow quickly
Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-paced environments
Strong sense of ownership and bias toward execution
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Quick learner with a passion for mastering new skills
Open to candidates without formal degrees - demonstrated ability and initiative matter most
Notes
We are a remote-first company.
Preferred timezone: Australia.
Technical requirements
Previous involvement in building and commercialising software at scale.
Experience building with LLMs, embeddings, and deploying vector databases
Familiarity with ML fundamentals, NLP, or RAG pipelines
Strong understand of asynchronous programming
Required Stack: Python, FastAPI, Docker and PostgreSQL
(Bonus) Implementing CI/CD (Github Actions, AWS CDK), Typescript, NestJS/ExpressJS, NextJS and React
What you'll get
High ownership with no red tape, genuine startup culture
Accelerated pathway to ownership and responsibility
Tie your career growth to the growth of the company
Flexible hours and remote-first work setup
Work with successful founders, PhD chemists and motivated engineers
Solve real problems in a $5T global industry
Learn more in 1 year than most people do in 5
What you'll get
High ownership with no red tape, genuine startup culture
Accelerated pathway to ownership and responsibility
Tie your career growth to the growth of the company
Flexible hours and remote-first work setup
Work with successful founders, PhD chemists and motivated engineers
Solve real problems in a $5T global industry
Learn more in 1 year than most people do in 5
