CareerPlan

Senior Scientist, Structural Data Representation

Emeryville HQFull-time$220k–$260k2026-10-20 → 2026-10-22
On-siteVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Lead the encoding, organization, and database development for conformational ensemble models in structural biology, enabling data sharing and downstream functional analysis.

Role type

Senior Scientist, Structural Data Representation (Team Lead)

Builds

Databases, encoding models, schemas, and visualization tools for protein conformational ensembles

Domain

Structural biology, protein dynamics, computational chemistry

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PhD in relevant area, team leadership, structural model encoding (mmCIF), software development, data standards design, external partnership management

Preferred skills

product development, scientific database building, visualization tool development

Technologies

mmCIF, databases, visualization tools, machine learning

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of 2–3 scientists and engineers, design and deploy encoding models and schemas, direct database development for data sharing, partner with external tool developers and communities (e.g., PDB), define native support for ensemble models in open-source tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership