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Senior/Principal ML Scientist, Translational Biology

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $268,000–$268,000🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build systems to assess mechanistic support for clinical programs by analyzing human genetic, multi-omic, and trial-derived evidence to determine if an intervention's proposed mechanism is established, active, and rate-limiting in patient populations.

Role type

Senior/Principal ML Scientist (Translational Biology)

Builds

Automated assessment systems for clinical program mechanisms, outcome-verifiable forecasts of program progression, and structured evidence evaluations.

Domain

Biomedicine / Translational Medicine / Clinical Development

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, human genetic data analysis, multi-omic data analysis, cohort data analysis, trial-derived evidence analysis, mechanistic reasoning about therapeutic interventions, clinical trial design fluency, evidence judgment, reproducible pipeline construction

Preferred skills

human genetics for target identification, biomarker development, patient stratification, clinical trial datasets analysis, language model evaluation, survival analysis, structured evidence frameworks (GRADE)

Technologies

Python

Responsibilities

Build systems to assess mechanistic support for clinical programs; Analyze human genetic, expression, cohort, and trial-derived evidence to determine mechanism presence and activity; Evaluate trial design (endpoints, biomarkers, eligibility) against proposed mechanisms; Build outcome-verifiable forecasts of program progression; Co-design systems with scientists and engineers; Publish findings on predictability from mechanistic and human evidence.

Seniority

Senior/Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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