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Senior Developer Relations Lead, AI-Enabled Drug Discovery Science

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$224k2026-09-18 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead AI-enabled drug discovery science streams by coordinating experimental, data, model, and compute activities to advance RNA therapeutics and translational biology.

Role type

Senior IC science leader (drug discovery & AI)

Builds

AI-prepared therapeutic data, automated experimental pipelines, and closed-loop learning systems for drug discovery.

Domain

Life sciences / AI / Drug discovery

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

RNA therapeutics, therapeutic discovery, computational biology, assay development, high-throughput data generation, AI/ML model integration, cross-functional team leadership, matrixed environment navigation, data governance, risk management.

Preferred skills

RNA biology (siRNAs, ASOs, mRNA), prior leadership of therapeutic discovery platforms, experience connecting experimental datasets to foundation models, NVIDIA AI platforms (BioNeMo, GPU-accelerated biology).

Technologies

NVIDIA BioNeMo, GPU-accelerated computational biology, active learning, foundation models, simulation, feature stores, data lineage.

Responsibilities

Coordinate operating plans across research priorities and execution; convert scientific objectives into executable plans; lead workstreams in data curation, ML, automation, and platform engineering; collaborate on assay strategies for AI readiness; guide closed-loop learning between AI hypotheses and automated experiments; review science validity for key biology applications; establish science-stream governance and risk tracking; report progress and dependencies to program leadership.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities