Oltricx (formerly PalmPro)
Expression of Interest - Founding ML Engineer
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Company Description
Oltricx is an early stage Biotech company developing novel enzymes using artificial intelligence for vegetable oil extraction mills, enabling them to extract more oil from their existing process. This approach supports a lower carbon footprint by reducing waste and improving resource utilisation. Our mission is to make crude vegetable oil production more efficient and sustainable, starting with palm oil and expanding across global vegetable oil markets.
About The Role
As we move to the next stage of growth, we are opening an expression of interest for an ML Engineer to join Oltricx. We are building a machine platform that uses generative protein design with real-world industrial process modelling to screen for novel enzyme variants. To develop this further, we are looking for a strong ML engineer to join our team. You will be supporting the build and evaluation of the core machine learning components.
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What You Will Be Doing
- Building ML models for a novel industrial application
- End-to-end model development: data engineering, training, evaluation, and iteration
- Developing and benchmarking predictive models against published baselines
- Building reproducible, well-documented ML pipelines
- Contributing to MLOps infrastructure covering experiment tracking, model registry, and version control
Requirements
- MSc + or equivalent experience in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field
- Strong Python engineering skills with experience in PyTorch
- Demonstrable experience building and deploying ML models end-to-end
- Solid understanding of model evaluation, benchmarking, and experimental design
- Experience with cloud-based compute environments
- Strong engineering fundamentals: clean code, version control, reproducibility
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Nice to Have
- Comfortable with sequence-based or biological data
- Experience in an early-stage startup or research environment
- Interest in sustainability, food systems, or industrial biotechnology
What We Offer
- Equity in an early-stage deep tech company as part of the founding team
- Flexible working - can be fully remote
- Competitive salary depending on experience
- 30 days annual leave
- Opportunity to represent the company at national and international opportunities
- A technically ambitious problem at the frontier of AI and engineering biology
- A small team where your work has direct and visible impact
How to Apply
Send your CV with a link to your GitHub portfolio to admin@oltricx.com.
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