Owkin
Full-time · Paris, France
Job description
About the role
As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will have the opportunity to build a secure application for collaborative federated machine learning. This product, called Connect, enhances the collaboration between data experts (e.g., medical expert, data engineer) and data scientists across multiple data centers. Connect makes it possible to train a machine learning model across multiple data centers storing highly sensitive data (federated learning). For more details, have a look here!
Connect is part of the Data Platform, a fast growing team composed today of 50 people, which secures access to rich multi-modal data at scale to enable discovery and development of new treatments, internally and in collaboration with pharma partners.
You’ll work in a team of Software and ML Engineers in close collaboration with the product team, data scientists and operations team. You will report to the Software Engineering Lead and you will actively contribute to the technical design and implementation of the APIs and libraries of the platform.
In particular, you will:
Develop libraries to facilitate data scientists interactions with the platform
Collaborate with a team to design and develop the platform Design and implement state of the art federated learning strategies. Design and implement privacy enhancing technologies.
Work on key initiatives to keep a high productivity — such as improving our code, tests, and promoting new tools
Preferred experience
About you
Required qualifications:
A good experience as a Machine Learning or backend Software Engineer
Strong experience with Python and standard Python ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Numpy, Pandas)
Knowledge of Data Engineering and Machine Learning
Ability to work in an international environment and communicate in English
Strong team spirit
Bonus:
Experience in DevOps and MLOps
Experience working with distributed frameworks (Spark, Dask …)
Open source contributions
If you are interested in joining us but don’t check all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply as we are seeking to build a multidisciplinary team with diverse backgrounds.
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Owkin
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Owkin believes that medical research should be collaborative, inclusive, and privacy-preserving. Today, Owkin is pioneering AI in healthcare. It leverages its collaborative federated learning software and expert AI capabilities to bring solutions to optimize drug development and improve patient care in oncology. Owkin’s work has been published in Nature Medicine and other top-tier journals. Owkin has raised over $70M from leading VC funds and is now working with the most prominent cancer centers and pharmaceutical companies in Europe and the US. Additionally, Owkin leads several federated learning consortia, including; MELLODDY, to facilitate 'co-opetive' drug discovery between pharma companies, and Healthchain, to allow collaborative research across multiple hospitals. Owkin was co-founded in 2016 by Thomas Clozel, MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical hematology, and by Gilles Wainrib, Ph.D., an academic pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence in biology.