ML Scientist
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Jun 03, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
As a core research contributor, the full-time ML Scientist will design and train large-scale foundation models on multimodal biological datasets, collaborating with biologists and research scientists in a remote-friendly environment.
Key responsibilities
- Design and train large-scale foundation models on multimodal biological datasets, including genomics and transcriptomics
- Collaborate with computational biologists and domain experts to translate biological questions into modeling problems
- Drive the full research lifecycle, including hypothesis formation, experimental design, model development, and analysis of results
Required qualifications
- PhD in machine learning, computational biology, statistics, physics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent industry research experience
- Demonstrated ability to build and train models end-to-end, including experimental analysis
- First-author publications at top ML, AI, or computational biology venues
- Deep familiarity with foundation model concepts such as pretraining and self-supervised learning
- Comfort working at the intersection of biology and machine learning
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