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Our goal is to enable a self-improvement loop for chemistry by combining AI and advanced robotics. In this loop, AI systems design experiments, robotic systems execute them, and the resulting data improves the next generation of models.\nThis goal can only be achieved by bringing together people from different backgrounds: ML engineers, chemists, computer scientists, and hardware engineers. We are building a small, unusually ambitious team and are looking for a machine learning researcher to join us to help train the next generation of chemistry models.\nWe train models for a wide range of tasks, including reaction planning and outcome, input material costs, and mass spectra prediction. Most of these models are state-of-the-art; many are trained on proprietary datasets that are larger, and higher quality, than what exists in the literature.\nOur models are primarily deployed internally for real workflows. As such, we maintain a tight feedback loop between usage, data, and model training.\nThe role\nIn this position, you will help train the next generation of chemistry models, and enable synthesis of previously inaccessible molecules.\nYour work will span the full modeling stack. You will work with lab staff on data acquisition, train models of many different shapes and sizes, and deploy models directly into experimental workflows. You will build and help maintain infrastructure and abstractions for training a diverse set of models; this includes data pipelines and various system tasks such as parallelism strategies and quantization.\nUltimately, your role will be to train models with superhuman chemistry intuition and experimental capabilities.\nEducation\nNo formal education is required. 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