Machine Learning Engineer II

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company providing analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The company works to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable by testing food, water, medicines, and other products for safety, ingredient authenticity, and labelling accuracy.

Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and support of clinical studies.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries, operating more than 800 laboratories. The company offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as innovative clinical diagnostic testing services.

In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR €6.7 billion and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

About the Role

Eurofins Discovery is applying AI-enabled applications, data visualization, cheminformatics, bioinformatics and other data-driven approaches within drug discovery and development. The Research Informatics group plays a fundamental role in advancing understanding of drug discovery data, enabling decision making, driving operational efficiency, and supporting commercial initiatives across the organization. You will work closely with scientists to develop innovative approaches that help drive projects and identify solutions for clients.

Responsibilities

• Represent Informatics as the subject matter expert in cross-functional initiatives, collaborating closely with scientists, data teams and technical stakeholders.
• Identify and deliver solutions where computational and AI-driven approaches can improve efficiency, decision making, and knowledge utilization across complex workflows.
• Design, develop and deploy production-ready AI-enabled applications that integrate structured and unstructured data for scalable use.
• Build and implement retrieval-augmented systems (RAG), semantic search frameworks, and embedding-based data workflows to enable intelligent information retrieval.
• Develop conversational AI interfaces and agentic architectures that automate knowledge-intensive tasks and support user interaction with complex datasets.
• Research, design and develop machine learning algorithms, tools and systems.
• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code, and participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge for existing and new tools that allow extraction, analysis, visualization and production of valued added insights of data for customers.
• Independently pursue research projects, implement novel computational workflows and support a dynamic multi-disciplinary team focused on moving projects from the hit identification stage to the discovery of candidates.
• Perform statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results.
• Be actively involved in digital transformation projects and data governance objectives working closely with IT and scientific teams.
• Ensure proper documentation of workflows, reports, tools, and analyses of the Research Informatics team.
• Provide transparency and regular communication on project status, potential roadblocks for execution, and new strategies with Technology Sciences leadership.
• Ensure project activities align with Eurofins policies, procedures and methodologies.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, data science, computational chemistry, bioinformatics or related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in building and deploying production ready AI-enabled research applications and workflows.
• At least 2 years programming experience in Python, TypeScript, and full stack application development (Python, FastAPI, React, Streamlit).
• Consolidated knowledge on prompt engineering, context engineering, LLM frameworks, agentic frameworks, APIs and libraries.
• Extensive knowledge and experience using chemical and bioinformatics libraries preferably in a drug discovery environment.
• In depth knowledge of relevant public and proprietary databases, methods and tools.
• Skilled with relational, non-relational, big data and big data analytics databases.
• Deep knowledge of math, probability, statistics and algorithms.
• Ability to work in the U.S. indefinitely without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics or related discipline.
• Experience with Azure, AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience in containerization, orchestration and workflow automation tools such as Docker, Kubernetes and Nextflow.
• Experience in fine-tuning and training LLM models.
• Experience in developing computer vision models using PyTorch.

Employment Details

• Position Type: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., with overtime as needed.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation and holidays

Equal Employment Opportunity

Eurofins USA Discovery Services is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.