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

What you'll get

Power Your Commercial Teams With
Chemical Intelligence

Book a demo to see how Kimia enables faster decisions, stronger execution, and measurable commercial impact across your organisation.

Power Your Commercial Teams With Chemical Intelligence

Book a demo to see how Kimia enables faster decisions, stronger execution, and measurable commercial impact across your organisation.

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