# ML Research Engineer

Overview Novogaia is an applied AI drug discovery company. We build machine learning systems that decode the chemistry of natural organisms, starting with fungi, to find the next generation of medicines. We are a small team of AI engineers, computational biologists and chemists building foundation models for molecular structure prediction from mass spectrometry data. We are seeking a machine learning research engineer to lead the development of these models: setting modeling direction, designing and running architecture experiments, and owning and implementing innovative architectural improvements. You will also work with our computational chemists to design our internal benchmark and evaluation pipelines. The Role In your first year, you'll take the lead on Gaia-02 model development, building on the work done to train Gaia-01 while moving us towards an innovative, best-in-class architecture. Lead modeling decisions for Novogaia's core tasks: de novo molecular structure generation, molecular and spectral retrieval, mass spectrum simulation, molecular formula prediction, and compound property/class prediction Serve as the technical authority for Novogaia’s machine learning program:

- **Id**: 1331696
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/novogaia-ml-research-engineer-evaluation>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-07T06:45:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:14:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 98
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3726
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drug Discovery, Drug Discovery AI

## Company

- **Id**: 3786674
- **Name**: Novogaia
- **Domain**: novogaia.bio
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/novogaia>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 74000
- **Max usd**: 197000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 168

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Mass Spectrometry** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 98

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-27T10:28:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.281
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 97
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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