LLM Research Engineer (Scientific Discovery)

Location: New York, NY Work Model: Hybrid Compensation: $300K to $800K base + substantial variable compensation and additional incentives

Overview

This role sits inside a well-resourced, interdisciplinary research organization applying frontier large language models and machine learning to molecular science and drug discovery. The environment combines foundational AI research, large-scale model development, and direct collaboration with computational and molecular scientists, with computational infrastructure built specifically for research at this scale.

The position owns the research and engineering behind large language and multimodal models for scientific problems: architecture, pre-training, post-training, scaling, and the systems that make all of it run efficiently on high-performance compute. The mandate is not to integrate existing tools but to extend what large-scale models can do in science.

Candidates who thrive