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Machine Learning Scientist I / II, Protein Design

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $176,000–$176,000🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design molecules for active biologics programs and develop reasoning capabilities for drug discovery by translating experimental constraints into actionable design hypotheses.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning scientist (protein design)

Builds

Computational design workflows, evaluation infrastructure, and reasoning models for biologics

Domain

Life Sciences / AI for Protein Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Protein sequence/structure/function expertise, System design fundamentals, Rigorous evaluation and dataset design, Cross-functional communication, Software engineering

Preferred skills

Reasoning models/agents/planning systems, Design-test-learn loops for therapeutics, Model registries/benchmark suites, Distributed training/GPU efficiency

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Design molecules for active biologics programs, Develop reasoning capabilities for drug discovery, Design and maintain benchmarks and evaluation infrastructure, Own operations around reproducibility and inference cost, Work with domain scientists to define ML objectives

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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