Verisian is hiring a
Junior Backend/AI Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Backend/AI Engineer at Verisian, where the employee will work on parsers for statistical programming languages, build the foundation for the Verisian Platform, and fine-tune LLMs. The company focuses on improving clinical trials and drug approvals with a unique culture that emphasizes customer obsession, extreme ownership, candid communication, curiosity, continuous growth, and teamwork.

Requirements

• Experience with and strong interest in programming languages and parsing algorithms
• Extensive experience in at least one low-level programming language, preferably Java
• Extensive hands-on experience with ML/AI concepts, especially LLM fine-tuning
• Experience with graph theory and algorithm implementation
• Experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues
• Experience in testing, integration testing, build and release management (CI/CD, Github Actions/similar)

Responsibilities

• Work on parsers for programming languages (SAS, R, and Python) used by statistical programmers in clinical trial analyses
• Transform the results into graphs based on which we build the Verisian Platform products
• Use the results to fine-tune LLMs to enable code explanation, question answering and data exploration systems
• Automate creating new analyses
• Extensive automated testing and strong participation in analysis, design, building, and deployment of the entire analytics and backend stack

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with compilers / interpreters
• Experience with Antlr4 / similar parsing framework

Benefits

• Employee Stock Options Plan
• All remote, asynchronous work environment