Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Role: Lead LLM/NLP Research Engineer

Industry: Drug Discovery & Healthtech

Location: Paris, Hybrid

Interested in joining a team focused on transforming medicine with AI? We are currently partnered with a team focusing on developing models that are making personalized treatments a reality at scale.

As a Lead LLM/NLP Research Engineer, you will guide technical direction while remaining deeply hands-on in building and deploying cutting-edge AI systems.

Expectations:

• Lead the design and development of next-gen ML pipelines to process millions of biomedical documents in real time
• Architect and build cutting-edge NLP models tailored for biomedical and pharmaceutical literature
• Own model quality and compliance by defining robust evaluation frameworks for our AI suite
• Drive MLOps strategy in healthcare, ensuring scalable deployment, monitoring, and automated validation
• Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of engineers and researchers, setting technical direction and best practices

Requirements:

Essential Skills:

• NLP & ML: Transformers, LLMs, Hugging Face, spaCy, SparkNLP
• Model Training: ML/DL pipelines with PyTorch & TensorFlow
• MLOps: Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes for scalable deployment
• Leadership: Proven experience leading a small team of engineers or researchers while remaining hands-on
• Quality & Metrics: Build and measure medical-grade AI performance

Bonus Skills:

• Databases: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Qdrant
• ML APIs & LLM integration
• Cloud: AWS/GCP
• DevOps: GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible
• Experience working in a scale-up environment (e.g., high-growth company moving from early traction to maturity)

Education & Experience:

• PhD in CS, Applied Math, Bioinformatics, or similar is preferred
• Research background in NLP/ML, ideally within biomedical or healthcare domains
• Prior experience leading a small team or owning a function end-to-end
• Experience in scale-up environments, ideally navigating rapid growth and increasing production complexity
• Python & ML framework expert

Who You Are:

• Passionate about applying AI to real-world healthcare challenges
• A hands-on leader who enjoys both coding and guiding others
• Comfortable working in fast-growing, evolving environments with increasing complexity
• Independent, rigorous, and highly collaborative
• Clear communicator in English, comfortable working across teams and disciplines

Please apply above if interested and connect with the hiring manager!