Founding AI Scientist

Founding Research Engineer – AI × Biology

Location: Dublin (preferred) | Hybrid / Remote (EU/UK)

We’re building a biological foundation model from the ground up and are looking for a Founding Research Engineer to own model development end-to-end — from pre-training and architecture decisions through to scaling and iteration.

You’ll work closely with a bioinformatics team who provide biological guidance, evaluation frameworks, and curated datasets. Your job is to turn that guidance into models that actually learn the right biological signal.

What you’ll do

• Design and train large-scale models on biological data (single-cell, multi-omics, sequences)
• Own pre-training pipelines, objectives, and evaluation
• Make architectural decisions and iterate quickly
• Translate biological feedback into better representations

What we’re looking for

• Strong ML background with hands-on model building experience
• Exposure to biology, bioinformatics, or noisy real-world data (industry or academia)
• Experience with transformers, representation learning, or graph models
• Comfortable owning problems end-to-end in an early-stage environment
• Pragmatic, low-ego, and curious about biology

Why this role

• Founding-level ownership and technical influence
• Work on first-principles AI for biology (not a narrow point solution)
• Small, high-calibre team
• Competitive compensation + meaningful equity

If you’ve made ML work outside of clean benchmarks — and want to apply it to biology — we’d like to talk.

Apply directly, or reach out to discuss further - [email protected]