# Machine Learning Research Engineer (MLRE) - Research

Why Achira At Achira, we are building a team of world-class scientists, ML researchers, and engineers to work together to move beyond the beaten path in drug discovery. We are actively exploring the next frontier of model architectures for AI x Chemistry: developing world models for the physical microcosm. Our goal is to make biology at the molecular level something that can be learned, predicted, and designed. At Achira, you’ll operate at the frontier scale of massive compute, massive data, and massive ambition. You’ll own impactful work end-to-end, from ideation to architecture to deployment on distributed infrastructure. We are a well-funded, talent-dense organization that values rigor, speed, execution, and an ownership mindset. We’re looking for new members who share our sense of relentless urgency and are natural collaborators who value team success. About the Role We're looking for a rare individual who thrives at the intersection of applied machine learning research and rigorous software engineering. You will advance the state of the art in foundation simulation models by implementing and experimenting with internal and literature-sourced ideas, participating with research

- **Id**: 747333
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/achira-machine-learning-research-engineer-mlre-research>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-29T14:28:38Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:23:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 196
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3577
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drug Discovery, AI for Science

## Company

- **Id**: 669603
- **Name**: Achira
- **Domain**: achira.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/achira>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 164638
- **Max**: 259000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 259000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no
- **Diffusion Models** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 196

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T14:36:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.127
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 196
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 259000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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