ML/AI Engineer & Software Architect

Sobek AI | ML/AI Engineer & Software Architect | Seattle, WA | HYBRID (2-3 days onsite) | Full-Time | $140-190 k + equity | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sobek-ai https://sobek.ai/ ============== About Us ============== Sobek works with networks of research institutes, manufacturers, and pharmaceuticals leaders on frontier life science problems—where collaboration across organizational and IP boundaries is critical to innovation. Our agentic AI solution captures emerging best practices and learnings across these networks and delivers them to users for workflow evaluation, monitoring and continuous improvement. We are currently delivering on multi-million dollar contracts for R&D in mRNA and RNA vaccines, and for public health and emergency coordination, with plans to expand into broader life sciences and drug development ============== Roles ============== ML/AI Engineer – Design and ship LLM-powered retrieval pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and model-evaluation loops. Software Architect – Own backend & cloud architecture for our multi-tenant SaaS (FastAPI/Node, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, security). ============== What we’re after ============== • 2 + yrs prod ML (Engineer) or 5 + yrs distributed systems (Architect) • Strong Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow) or JS/TS; cloud deployment chops • Startup-ready: comfortable with ambiguity, fast iteration, and ownership ============== Benefits: company-paid health (you + dependents), equity with upside. No visa sponsorship right now.