Machine Learning Engineer II

Machine Learning Engineer II

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies. In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialized clinical diagnostics testing. In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

Come join our growing team! Eurofins Discovery is highly motivated to apply AI enabled applications, data visualization, cheminformatics, bioinformatics and other data-driven approaches within drug discovery & development at every level of the organization. Given the expanding scope of the Research Informatics group's operations, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to continue to build on the existing team to achieve this goal and be a champion of promoting computational sciences as an integral part of our business. Research Informatics at Eurofins Discovery plays a fundamental role in advancing understanding of drug discovery data, enabling decision making and driving operational efficiency and supporting commercial initiatives across the organization. You will be working closely with our scientists to develop innovative approaches that help drive projects and identify solutions for our clients. Here's what you'll do:

• Represent Informatics as the subject matter expert in cross-functional initiatives, collaborating closely with scientists, data teams and technical stakeholders.
• Identify and deliver solutions where computational and AI-driven approaches can improve efficiency, decision making, and knowledge utilization across complex workflows.
• Design, develop and deploy production-ready AI-enabled applications that integrate structured and unstructured data for scalable use.
• Build and implement retrieval-augmented systems (RAG), semantic search frameworks, and embedding-based data workflows to enable intelligent information retrieval.
• Develop conversational AI interfaces and agentic architectures that automate knowledge-intensive tasks and support user interaction with complex datasets.
• Research, design and develop machine learning algorithms, tools and systems;
• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code, as well as participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge for existing and new tools that allow us to extract, analyze, visualize and produce valued added insights of data for our customers;
• Independently pursue research projects, implement novel computational workflows and support a dynamic multi-disciplinary team focused on moving projects from the hit identification stage to the discovery of candidates;
• Perform statistical analysis and fin-tuning using test results;
• Be actively involved in digital transformation projects and data governance objectives working closely with IT and scientific teams;
• Ensure proper documentation of workflows, reports, tools, and analyses of the Research Informatics' team;
• Provide transparency and regular communication on project status, potential roadblocks for execution, and new strategies with Technology Sciences leadership;
• Ensure project activities align with Eurofins policies, procedures and methodologies

Qualifications

The ideal candidate:

• Degree in computer science, data science, computational chemistry, bioinformatics or related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in building and deploying production ready AI-enabled research applications and workflows.
• At least 2 years programing experience in Python, TypeScript, and full stack application development (Python, FastAPI, React, Streamlit).
• Consolidated knowledge on prompt engineering, context engineering LLM frameworks, agentic frameworks, APIs and libraries.
• Extensive knowledge and experience using chemical and bioinformatics libraries preferably in a drug discovery environment.
• In depth knowledge of relevant public and proprietary databases, methods and tools.
• Skilled with relational, non-relational, big data and big data analytics databases.
• Deep knowledge of math, probability, statistics and algorithms.

• Ph.D. in Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics or related discipline;
• Experience with Azure, AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience in containerization, orchestration and workflow automation tools such as Docker, Kubernetes and Nextflow.
• Experience in finetuning and training LLM models.
• Experience in developing computer vision models using PyTorch.
• Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels of the organization, with capability to influence decisions and lead others to achieve results;
• Experience with projects and teams that span multiple time-zones and different cultures;
• Excellent verbal, written, analytical, and presentation communication skills, namely of design rational, key experimental results, issues and accomplishments; adept at communicating a clear vision effectively aligning resources and motivating teams to achieve goals;
• Proven ability to successfully influence cross-functionally and to be sought after as a technical expert within bioinformatics applied to the drug discovery domain;
• Strong customer focus and ability to manage (internal or external) client expectations
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a research program environment and generate hypotheses from computational analysis of data that are strategically aligned with organizational goals and resources;
• A mentor and coach who brings strategic experience building diverse team from scratch to enable long term success for bioinformatics applied to Drug Discovery.
• Travels to other Eurofins facilities is required. Percentage of working time of approximately 5-10%.

Additional Information

The position is full-time, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., with overtime as needed.

• Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation and holidays

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