Data & AI Jobs at Profluent

Profluent is an AI-driven protein design company. Its AI writes proteins, whether inspired by natural scaffolds or designed from scratch, to create solutions for medicine, agriculture, and other fields. The company also developed OpenCRISPR, described as the world's first AI-designed gene editor.

• Machine Learning Scientist, Pretraining: Emeryville, posted 3 August 2026.
• Machine Learning Scientist, BioML: Emeryville, posted 5 June 2026.
• Machine Learning Scientist, Reinforcement Learning: Emeryville, posted 2 June 2026.
• Machine Learning Research Engineer : Emeryville, posted 27 April 2026.

Profluent is also hiring in hardware and science (4), engineering (2) and finance and legal (1).

Its roles are in Emeryville, CA, US (11).

The data is messy and there is not much of it yet. You build the pipeline, train the model, then explain the result to a founder in plain words. Large employers give you a clean warehouse and one narrow question, while here you pick the question too.