CareerPlan

Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Lab Automation

South San Francisco, USFull-time$168k–$312k2026-11-04 → 2026-11-10
Based in United States

Core

Architecting and deploying intelligent systems for autonomous, self-healing laboratories to accelerate drug discovery and development.

Role type

Senior Multimodal Machine Learning Scientist (Lab Automation)

Builds

Autonomous lab infrastructure integrating computer vision, multimodal perception, predictive modeling, and agentic systems for lights-out drug discovery.

Domain

Biopharma / Autonomous Laboratory Systems / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Computer Vision, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Multimodal Model Development, Agentic System Design, ML Pipeline Orchestration, Model Evaluation & Benchmarking, Scalable ML Inference

Preferred skills

Synthetic Vision Data Generation, Edge-Vision Deployment, Lab Automation Hardware Knowledge, Bayesian Optimization, Reinforcement Learning

Technologies

PyTorch, OpenCV, torchvision, Vision Transformers, SAM, DinoV2

Responsibilities

Develop and fine-tune state-of-the-art vision models for real-time visual quality control in lab workcells. Build multimodal models integrating camera feeds with sensor telemetry and assay metadata. Create predictive AI models on analytical data to support closed-loop experimental decision-making. Build end-to-end data and ML pipelines for image/video and sensor data. Develop agentic pipelines to interpret lab data and execute autonomous recovery decisions. Build rigorous evaluation suites to benchmark model and agent accuracy. Deploy and optimize scalable ML inference infrastructure for low-latency performance.