Position: Building Science. Research and Prototyping Engineer (Back-end, Data & ML)
Company: GT
Category: Python
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

We're looking for inspired Innovation and Prototyping Engineers to join our research team responsible for programmatic efforts in the fields of microbiology, sustainable agriculture, food, personal care, and cosmetics, using the latest technologies to enable data-driven discovery.

Eagle Genomics is a data-centric scientific organization focussing on increasing the insight provided to a variety of clients in AgriScience, Life Science, Healthcare, and Consumer products through the mapping and integration of publicly available data such as the Human Biome study augmented with the clients own data. The Eagle Genomics approach allows scientific insight to become visible and removes the risk of strong individual opinion creating false indications or conclusions through an effective and unique collaborative scientific scoring methodology. The Eagle Genomics platform has the scope to create breakthroughs in life science and agriscience to radically improve health outcomes and standards of living for consumers and patients worldwide. 

Eagle Genomics has engaged GT to build a prototyping and experimentation team to bridge the critical gap between the conceptual scientific ideas and theories developed by their in-house innovation team and the build-out of production solutions in robust, repeatable scalable fashion by the Hyderabad based Engineering team. The Kyiv team will play a critical role in defining and proving the art of the possible and ensuring that successful prototypes are developed and tuned to eventually become sufficiently robust to hand off to form a product roadmap and to ensure that unsuccessful prototypes are rapidly discarded.


We are looking for a person who:

Has 5+ of experience.

Strong understanding of product life cycle, agile methodologies, and prototyping test and learn approaches.

Good generalist technology background with wide experience in software engineering.
Developer with chops, ability to work in multiple environments and to get things done!
Comfortable producing rapid prototypes in a sandbox environment.

Your Main Responsibilities:

Build software prototypes working in partnership with team members and stakeholders
Regular dialogue and feedback with team members and leadership to understand when a particular experiment or innovation can proceed to the next stage or to cancel and restart if the outcome is not as expected


Must-have Skills:

Languages
Python, R, Julia, Nextflow

Machine learning
TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, Julia ML stack
Github

Development
Containers: Docker, Singularity 
Continuous integration
High-performance computing: LSF, SGE
Network Science
Data visualization

General
Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or equivalent
Proficiency in English (both verbal and written)


Good-to-have Skills: 

High-level experience of cloud architectures
Experience in developing early-stage prototypes 
Experience in relevant business verticals, life science, agriscience, genomics, biotech, or similar

We offer:
— An opportunity to co-create valuable innovative solutions for millions of users.
— To be an early bird and join the newly created technical team in Kyiv, participate in setting the right standards of work and in the hiring process of the team.
— Flexible schedule, a mix of remote and office work.
— Cutting edge office in the center of Ukraine’s first innovation park — Unit.City.
— Medical insurance.
— Monthly commute allowance or free parking space.
— Best-in-class IT equipment mirroring our client set-up.
— Monthly education allowance for courses, training, books, events.
— Gym membership, after-work activities, networking parties, and other Unit.city residency benefits.
— Daily lunches.