Senior Software Developer, ML Platform

The Role

Joining Moderna offers the unique opportunity to be part of a pioneering team thats revolutionizing medicine through mRNA technology with a diverse pipeline of development programs across various diseases.

As an employee youll be part of a continually growing organization working alongside exceptional colleagues and strategic partners worldwide contributing to global health initiatives.

Modernas commitment to advancing the technological frontier of mRNA medicines ensures a challenging and rewarding career experience with the potential to make a significant impact on patients lives worldwide.

Moderna is solidifying its presence within our international business services hub in Warsaw Poland a city renowned for its rich scientific and technological heritage. This hub provides critical functions meeting the growing demand of Modernas global business operations. Were inviting professionals from around the world to join our mission and contribute to the future of mRNA medicines.

Moderna is seeking a Senior Software Developer (SDE) / Machine Learning Engineer (MLE) to join the ML Platform Team in Warsaw. This role is pivotal in developing tools and infrastructure to support data scientists in both experimentation and productionalization of machine learning models. As a Sr. SDE you will work closely with data science and application teams to deliver realworld AI/ML applications that drive Modernas mission forward.

We are looking for an individual who is deeply curious has an excellent work ethic and is passionate about leveraging cuttingedge machine learning and software engineering to bring novel mRNA therapeutics and vaccines to marketultimately improving the lives of patients worldwide.

Heres What Youll Do

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Lead the design and development of software systems supporting machine learning solutions ensuring scalability efficiency and robustness.

• Architect and implement endtoend machine learning pipelines including data ingestion preprocessing retraining evaluation deployment CI/CD and automated testing.

• Develop and maintain highperformance APIs and microservices to support AIdriven applications.

• Optimize existing ML systems for performance and scalability.

• Implement best software development practices including code reviews testing and documentation.

• Ensure compliance with data security and privacy regulations throughout the development lifecycle.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Collaborating closely with data scientists product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.

• Writing clean maintainable and welldocumented code across a variety of programming languages.

• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues ensuring reliability and performance of deployed ML systems.

• Staying up to date with the latest advancements in AI and ML integrating innovative technologies into Modernas software ecosystem.

• Additional duties as may be assigned from time to time.

The key Moderna Mindsets youll need to succeed in the role:

• We Digitize Everywhere Possible You will be at the forefront of building and optimizing AIdriven applications leveraging modern software engineering and machine learning tools to drive realworld impact. Your ability to harness digital advancements and implement scalable ML pipelines will be crucial to Modernas success.

• We Push Past Possible The challenges in AI/ML within biotech are complex and unprecedented. You must be bold in experimentation fearless in problemsolving and relentless in driving innovation ensuring our ML systems are bestinclass and impactful to global healthcare.

Heres What Youll Need (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelors Masters or PhD in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

• Extensive experience (5 years) in software engineering with a focus on AI and machine learning.

• Demonstrated understanding of and prior experience with ML workflows

• Experience building tools to deploy ML models to the cloud using CI/CD

• Proven track record of designing and deploying largescale machine learning systems in production environments.

• Deep understanding of deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch PyTorch Lightning JAX) and libraries (e.g. CUDA).

• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes).

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications)

• 5 years of experience delivering software projects preferably in an industry setting

• Outstanding communication skills (verbal written and virtual/remote)

• Success in communicating effectively at multiple levels of stakeholdership

• Demonstrated experience building machine learning workflows and executing complex and interdisciplinary software projects.

• Fluency in Python especially machine learning (Sklearn/PyTorch).

• Experience with finetuning and deploying LLM technologies (e.g. Llama) on cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS Bedrock).

• Familiarity with best practices in software development including coding standards code reviews version control (Git) build process software testing operations and documentation.

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (like ECR ECS EC2 etc).

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems.

• Working knowledge of Unix operating systems.

• Working knowledge of distributed systems/applications.

• Working knowledge of databases (e.g. PostgreSQL).

• Ability to manage multiple projects and effectively collaborate in a dynamic crossfunctional environment.

• Experience in agile/scrum or related collaborative workflow.

• A desire to make an impact as part of a highgrowth transformational company that is Bold Relentless Curious and Collaborative.

At Moderna we believe that when you feel your best you can do your best work. Thats why our global benefits and wellbeing resources are designed to support youat work at home and everywhere in between.

• Quality healthcare and insurance benefits
• Lifestyle Spending Accounts to create your own pathway to wellbeing
• Free premium access to fitness nutrition and mindfulness classes
• Family planning and adoption benefits
• Generous paid time off including vacation bank holidays volunteer days sabbatical global recharge days and a discretionary yearend shutdown
• Savingsandinvestments
• Locationspecific perks and extras!

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010 we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform theinfrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered and a worldclass team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission values and mindsets every day our peopleare the driving force behind our scientific progress and our we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients our employees the environment and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

As we build our company we have always believed an inperson culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of inoffice collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% inoffice structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation teamwork and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn contribute and make a meaningful impact.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine we invite you to visit to learn more about our current opportunities.

Moderna is a smokefree alcoholfree and drugfree work environment.

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day please apply!

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race color sex gender identity or expression age religion national origin ancestry or citizenship ethnicity disability military or protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation marital or familial status or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements.

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