AI Model Lead: Architect -Scale ML & LLMs

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology? At Cepheid, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate, molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team, you’ll get to make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the world’s most complex health challenges. Together, we bring MORE change to the world.

• Own the end‑to‑end architecture and technical strategy for large‑scale AI/ML models, including LLMs and multimodal systems.
• Lead development, training, and optimization of advanced models using state‑of‑the‑art deep learning and distributed training techniques.
• Drive cross‑org alignment by partnering with product, research, infra, and engineering leaders to shape long‑term AI roadmap and priorities.
• Mentor and elevate senior ML engineers and researchers, setting technical standards and guiding complex design decisions.
• Ensure operational excellence through scalable MLOps pipelines, rigorous evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent experience and 12+ years of experience in ML, deep learning, or applied AI.
• Expert‑level proficiency in PyTorch, Tensor Flow, JAX, or similar frameworks.
• Deep understanding of distributed training, model parallelism, and large‑scale data pipelines.
• Strong ability to influence technical direction across teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers or researchers.

• Building or fine‑tuning LLMs, multimodal models, or foundation models.
• Publications in top AI/ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL).
• Experience with cloud‑scale ML infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Background in model safety, responsible AI, or evaluation frameworks.

• Ability to travel – around 25%, overnight, some international travel outside of home territory.

Cepheid offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives, including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. The annual salary range for this role is $210,000 - $235,000. This role is also eligible for bonus and incentive pay.

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