Asta Project is looking for a Research Engineer to work on AI and its potential to help accelerate science. The role involves building infrastructure, creating AI tools, and designing machine learning models. The team is focused on AI, ML, NLP, and HCI to support the mission of accelerating science with intelligent and interactive research assistants.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Data Science/Applied Mathematics/Statistics/ML/NLP, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 2+ years of experience building agentic infrastructure
- 2+ years of experience building infrastructure that handles data preprocessing/transformation and machine learning model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment
- Knowledge of modern deep learning, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning techniques
- Strong software engineering skills, particularly around building performant systems and debugging
- Experience with Python and PyTorch/Jax/Tensorflow, agentic frameworks (e.g., MCP), as well as feel at ease in picking up new programming languages, libraries, or APIs as tools as project needs evolve
- Familiarity with cloud compute resources (e.g., GCP, AWS, Modal) and containerization (e.g., Docker)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program
- Health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and healthcare and dependent care flexible spending account plans
- 401k plan
- Commuting and internet expenses assistance
- Fitness and wellbeing expenses assistance
- Sick days
- Personal days
- Vacation days
- Paid holidays
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentive plan
