Founding Research Engineer – AI × BiologyLocation:Dublin (preferred) | Hybrid / Remote (EU/UK)We're building abiological foundation modelfrom the ground up and are looking for aFounding Research Engineerto 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 intomodels that actually learn the right biological signal.What you'll doDesign and train large-scale models on biological data (single-cell, multi-omics, sequences)Own pre-training pipelines, objectives, and evaluationMake architectural decisions and iterate quicklyTranslate biological feedback into better representationsWhat we're looking forStrong ML background with hands-on model building experienceExposure to biology, bioinformatics, or noisy real-world data (industry or academia)Experience with transformers, representation learning, or graph modelsComfortable owning problems end-to-end in an early-stage environmentPragmatic, low-ego, and curious about biologyWhy this roleFounding-level ownership and technical influenceWork on first-principles AI for biology (not a narrow point solution)Small, high-calibre teamCompetitive compensation + meaningful equityIf 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 -