Machine Learning Scientist, Pretraining

Job description

The Role

We're looking for a motivated and creative Machine Learning (ML) Scientist to drive research into pretraining large-scale deep learning models for biomolecular design. This position offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of generative modeling research across language processing, representation learning, and protein engineering. You should be a self-directed researcher who has the ability to rapidly prototype and evaluate new models and algorithms in the biomolecular domain.

As an early employee, you will proactively shape the direction of our machine learning efforts and collaborate across diverse teams of computational and experimental scientists.

Responsibilities

Design and develop state-of-the-art autoregressive, diffusion and representation learning models for protein design

Collaborate across the machine learning and protein design teams to apply, adapt and improve pretraining techniques from other domains to biomolecular deep learning models

Architect, implement, and optimize core infrastructure to support the pretraining of protein language models

Curate relevant datasets and design tasks for rigorous evaluation of generative models

Implement, analyze, and interpret multiple computational approaches and present results to colleagues in regular update meetings

Work within a collaborative, fast-paced, interdisciplinary team across biology and machine learning to help shape the scientific and strategic vision of the company

Qualifications

PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Applied Math, Computational Biology, Statistics, or a related field

Experience with conceiving of, implementing, and evaluating novel machine learning and pretraining large scale LLMs or other models in biomolecular domain

Publications at major machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) or scientific journals (Nature, Science, Nature Biotech, Nature Methods, PNAS) or experience pre-training LLMs at frontier AI/ML labs

Experience with modern deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Jax

Preferences

Familiarity with foundational biology of proteins and nucleic acids

Experience developing machine learning models for proteins (language models, structure prediction, design)

Experience with cloud compute platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI)

Previous experience in data extraction and curation from bioinformatics data sources

Familiarity with wet lab experimental assays and associated limitations

What We Offer

High-growth opportunity with meaningful impact on the future of protein design

Competitive compensation package with equity participation

401(k) with a strong employer match

Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/vision insurance

Generous PTO policy and commitment to work-life balance

Professional development opportunities in a cutting-edge field at the intersection of AI and biology

Profluent Bio, Inc is an equal opportunity employer promoting diversity and inclusion in the workspace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical conditions,