Pharmanautix application
Machine Learning Specialist
Pharmanautix Italia s.r.l. is hiring a Machine Learning Specialist. The position involves periodic business travel within Italy and occasional international travel.
We are looking for people who will stay and grow with us, and our intention is to continue the collaboration as a permanent position, as the company progresses and your contribution proves itself.
- Contract
- Full-time, fixed-term contract
- Classification
- C.C.N.L. Chimica e Affini – Industria, level D1
- Compensation
- C.C.N.L. Chimica e Affini – Industria, level D1. Base monthly salary €2,053.03 over thirteen instalments — gross annual salary (R.A.L.) €26,689.39.
- Location
- Milan, Italy — fully remote
- Duration
- 12 months
What you will do
- Review, understand and contribute to the ongoing development of the Company's machine-learning engine
- Design, implement and integrate new features, models and technical improvements into the existing infrastructure
- Test, validate and optimise machine-learning models, including hyperparameter optimisation and systematic assessment of performance, robustness and generalisability across different datasets, experimental conditions and input configurations
- Contribute to the development of reliable, scalable and well-documented machine-learning workflows
- Curate, preprocess and perform quality-control checks on datasets when required
- Collaborate closely with the technical team to identify practical solutions to complex data and modelling challenges
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Data Science, Bioinformatics or a closely related field
- At least 10 years of proven professional experience in machine-learning, artificial-intelligence or data-intensive software-development roles
- Advanced proficiency in Python for machine-learning development
- Strong, practical understanding of machine-learning methodologies, model evaluation and optimisation
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch
- Experience developing or training CUDA-accelerated machine-learning workloads
- Familiarity with remote cluster-computing environments, including access and job management through SSH or similar tools
- Demonstrated ability to work with complex datasets, build robust data-preprocessing pipelines and identify data-quality issues
- Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity and the ability to work independently in a fully remote environment
- Good command of written and spoken English
Preferred
- Experience with transformer-based architectures
- Familiarity with Positive-Unlabeled Learning (PU Learning) or other learning paradigms suited to incomplete, noisy or partially labelled datasets
- Experience with model deployment, MLOps, distributed training or scalable data-processing workflows
- Familiarity with software-engineering best practices, including version control, testing and technical documentation
- Experience working in a fast-paced research, technology or startup environment
This job opportunity is open to candidates of either sex, without discrimination on grounds of gender, age, nationality or sexual orientation, pursuant to Italian Legislative Decrees No. 96/2026, No. 198/2006, No. 215/2003 and No. 216/2003, as amended. Personal data provided through CVs and the completion of forms will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Italian Legislative Decree No. 196/2003, as amended. The data controller is Pharmanautix Italia s.r.l. To exercise the rights afforded under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), data subjects may write to team@pharmanautix.com
