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Senior Machine Learning Pre-Sales Engineer

Futura Talent
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10 months ago
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Senior Pre-Sales Machine Learning Engineer: £80 - £130k DOE + equity; Remote-first (UK or EU) w/ quarterly onsite at EU HQ and semi-regular attendance of events and in-person client meetings



We're partnering with a start-up with an already well-established market reputation and strong client base to find a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with strong Pharma / Biochem / Drug Discovery background to join their growing team.


These guys are revolutionising the sector with their approach allowing researchers to conduct analysis and make advances in medicine that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.



We're looking for someone who will working with the Sales and Customer Success teams, meeting client stakeholders (Biochemists, Computational Biologists etc).


You'll understand client's pain points and demonstrate how the platform can support them, either using existing functionality, functions in the roadmap which will resolve similar problems for other clients, or building mini prototypes and POC solutions for the client.


You'll also be tasked with building on the platform's reputation by establishing an expanding a network / community through attending conferences and meet-ups etc.


Please note: You must be based in the UK or EU and have full right to work to be considered for this opportunity - We cannot offer visa sponsorship.



What you'll get:

  • Competitive Salary: £80,000 - £120,000 DOE (possibly up to £130k for the right person)
  • Early-Stage equity
  • Remote-first working (quarterly on-sites in EU HQ & roughly 1 in-person meeting with clients OR event per month)
  • Personal Development: Learning and Development budget + attending industry events



Essential Skillset / Experience:

  • Minimum 2 years' commercial experience building / training ML models with a PHD / MSC / BSC in a relevant field
  • Experience working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or drug discovery sector
  • Python & PyTorch
  • Experience training ML models OR working with AlphaFold, ESM-2, DiffDock etc
  • Excellent communication & presentation skills in English, confidence in working a client-facing role



Desirable (not essential) Skillset / Experience:

  • Experience in an external customer-facing role / Pre-sales role
  • Other languages eg Go, R, Rust, JavaScript
  • Cloud: AWS / Azure / GCP
  • ML tooling: MLflow, Kubeflow, Dkube, AWS Sagemaker, Google AI Platform, Azure Machine Learning, DataRobot
  • Any MLOps / DevOps / CI / CD / containerisation tooling



Sound good?


If you'd like to find out about this exciting opportunity, please apply with your CV as soon as possible as they are looking to move quickly with this requirement.

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