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Jobs at Chai Discovery
22 open roles read nightly from companies’ own hiring pages. Each one links to the original ad.
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Chai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe are hiring research scientists to work on foundation model pre-training. Our models learn the foundations of molecular structure and interaction, and their success depends on carefully designed architectural components, training objectives, and data mixes.
Research Scientist, Applied Research
3 days agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeScience & researchWe are hiring research scientists to improve the real-world performance of our foundation models. The work involves planning targeted data generation campaigns, designing evals that accurately measure model performance, and formulating post-training recipes aimed at making…
Business Operations
10 days agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeOperationsWe are hiring our first Business Operations lead. Someone who can take hard problems at Chai and own them end to end. You’ll be a high-trust partner and problem solver to our founders and functional leaders, working wherever you’re most needed.
Software Engineer, AI Platform
3 weeks agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeEngineeringBuild the AI platform that lets scientists direct research programs with agents. We believe that as Chai's models get more powerful, scientists will focus more on fundamental problems and biological hypotheses, and delegate more of the subtasks to answer them to agents. Making…
Chai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeEngineeringBuild the platform that shortens the time it takes researchers and engineers to test ideas, ship software, and learn from experiments. We believe the software factory is just as important as the software itself, and you will build that factory for people and agents, including:
Strategy
5 weeks agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeOperationsWe are building a strategy team to take on the hardest open questions about our business and turn them into decisions we act on.
Brand and Marketing
5 weeks agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeMarketingWe are making our first marketing hire, someone to own Chai’s brand and the story we tell, with a clear thesis for what matters and how to stand out. Our audiences ranging from pharma executives and scientists to AI researchers and engineers. You’ll decide where our story shows…
Research Engineer, ML Infrastructure
6 weeks agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeData & AIMake our models performant, resource efficient and reliable at scale by developing the core frameworks for model training and evaluation, in close partnerships with fellow researchers and engineers.
First Finance Hire
2 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeFinanceWe are making our first finance hire. Someone we can trust to own Chai's financial operating system end to end. Chai is a small, fast-growing company with complex financial operations; heavy spend on compute and data acquisition; and pharmaceutical partnerships with complex…
Scientist, Protein Design
2 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
Full-timeDesignWe are building out our science team and looking to make a few key hires to anchor the effort, operating at the frontiers of both drug discovery and AI research.
Data Ops
5 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeData & AIWe are looking for a data operations expert, or a fast-rising generalist, to help drive data generation initiatives here at Chai. Someone who operates with urgency, has strong communication and project management skills, and who has an analytical nature.
Research Scientist
8 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe are hiring research scientists with outlier insight who can open new avenues for the work we pursue. Our models have moved beyond protein structure prediction into real-world therapeutic engineering, and we have only just begun. We draw on the best ideas from within our…
Forward-Deployed Scientist
8 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeScience & researchWe are building out our science team and looking to make a few key hires to anchor the effort, operating at the frontiers of both drug discovery and AI research.
Engagement Management
8 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSalesWe are building out our founding partnerships team and looking to make a few key hires to anchor the effort.
Business Development
8 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSalesWe are building out our partnerships founding team and looking to make a few key hires to anchor the effort. You will help set the terms and drive deal execution with the world's leading life sciences companies, establishing relationships that will shape our future.
Antibody Engineering
8 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEngineeringWe are looking for exceptional antibody engineers and computational protein designers to help us evaluate, expand and apply the capabilities of our de novo antibody design models. You'll join an elite team of biologists, computational scientists and AI researchers.
Talent
9 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timePeople & HRChai Discovery builds the computer-aided design suite for molecules. Eli Lilly, GSK, Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, argenx and Novartis all use Chai to power drug discovery programs. AI is reinventing life sciences the same way it reinvented software engineering, and our team is…
Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
11 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEngineeringBuild the compute infrastructure behind Chai’s next generation of models, scientific products, and autonomous research. Our research program and runtime inference constantly demand more compute, and the rate at which we bring it online and manage it effectively directly…
Design Engineer
16 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEngineeringDefine and build the workspace that scientists use to develop new medicines. We believe tools like Cadence for electrical engineering and Photoshop for graphic design fundamentally changed how experts work by making complex work available on a computer. Molecular engineering…
Software Engineer, Scientific Products
16 months agoChai Discovery · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeEngineeringBuild the computational workspace where scientists use Chai’s models and agents to design medicines. Molecular engineering still needs its own abstractions and product layer. You will help invent this category of software, owning the last mile from model capability to the…
Updated 06 Nov 2026 09:37 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.