Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Portugal

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Link is a key part of the Veeva system, aimed at "Connecting life sciences and key people to improve research and care." Our product provides real-time academic, social, and medical data to create comprehensive profiles, helping life-science partners find experts to speed up new therapeutics' development and adoption.

As part of the AI team, your main task will be to develop LLM-based agents specialized in extracting detailed information about Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in healthcare. You’ll build an end-to-end pipeline to analyze unstructured websites, and medical documents, and enable semantic searches for KOL data across various languages.

Using cloud infrastructure, you'll create models for information extraction and collaborate with software developers to deploy them. We aim to set new industry standards by training ML models with input from 2000+ curators, ensuring quality and scalability across different regions, languages, and specialties.

You can work remotely from anywhere in Portugal, the UK, or Spain, but must reside in one of these countries and be legally authorized to work there without visa or relocation support from Veeva. If you don't meet this requirement but consider yourself an exceptional candidate, please include a separate note for consideration.

What You'll Do

• Develop and manage ML infrastructures and CI/CD pipelines to support multiple data products
• Build fully automated, scalable, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant solutions in AWS to process billions of records
• Provide engineering mentorship and guidance to data scientists
• Develop LLM-based agents capable of performing function calls and utilizing tools such as browsers for enhanced data interaction and retrieval
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and product/operation teams

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or relevant jobs
• 2+ years of experience in cloud development, ideally in AWS
• Professional in ML operationalization, including CI/CD pipelines and workflow/model management, stacks such as Airflow and MLfLow
• Professional in distributed computing platforms (Ray and Spark) as well as Kubernetes for inference 
• Solid understanding and experience in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX,...)
• Hands-on experience in in-house training and inference of LLMs
• Strong collaboration skills as well as verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience in the life/health science industry, notably pharma
• Strong theoretical knowledge of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Reinforcement Learning
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with architectural choices, particularly for ML systems
• Leadership skills and a solid network to help in hiring and growing the team

Perks & Benefits

• Work anywhere
• Personal development budget (equal to 2% of your salary and in addition to that)
• Veeva charitable giving program
• Fitness reimbursement
• Life insurance + pension fund

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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected].