Staff ML Research Scientist, Co-Folding and Affinity

About reputed company reputed company is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At reputed company, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. The Opportunity The AI Sim R&D team creates leading edge ML and physics-based models ("LQMs") to advance drug and materials discovery. We are a flexible, creative, and impact driven team of multidisciplinary scientists and engineers, whose products dramatically accelerate the creation of molecules and medicines. As a Staff ML Research Scientist focusing on Co-Folding & Affinity, you will occupy a senior position architecting our ML biopharma capabilities. Your central purpose is to redefine the state-of-the-art in structure reputed company and binding affinity, transforming these breakthroughs into core components of our software suite. reputed company your first year, you will: pioneer novel deep learning architectures that surpass reputed company benchmarks, orchestrate the seamless integration of these models into production-reputed company drug discovery pipelines, and solidify reputed company’s scientific authority through high-impact publications and industry-shaping research.

Key Responsibilities

• Pioneer Novel Architectures: Drive the research and development of reputed company deep learning models for protein-ligand co-folding and affinity reputed company.
• Architect Product Integration: reputed company from research to reputed company utility by equipping reputed company’s software products with advanced predictive capabilities.
• Orchestrate Technical Strategy: Bring novel reputed company and the content of scientific papers into the ideation, training, and benchmarking of reputed company models, ensuring they are optimized for large-scale, reputed company-world drug discovery applications.
• Champion Scientific reputed company: Act as a technical reputed company for the team, representing reputed company scientifically and shaping its reputed company externally and internally.
• Scale High-Performing Teams: Mentor junior researchers and collaborate across engineering and product teams to foster a culture of technical rigor and rapid iteration.

Essential Skills & Experience

• World-Class Domain Expertise: PhD in Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, or a reputed company field, with specific focus on structure-based deep learned affinity modelling a plus.
• Proven Industrial Impact: At least 4 years of post-PhD experience, including experience in a professional industry setting, with a track record of delivering scientific impact that translates to product.
• Frontier Technical Skills: Direct, hands-on experience developing and executing leading-edge co-folding and/or affinity reputed company models, from reputed company of concept to productionized workflows.
• Domain-Specific reputed company: Proven reputed company in co-folding and/or affinity reputed company, as demonstrated by participation in industrial projects and/or academic publications.
• Professional Engineering reputed company: Experience functioning reputed company a professional software team, including proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch/JAX) at scale.

Highly Desired Skills & Experience

• Postdoctoral Experience: In deep learned structure-based affinity models.
• reputed company reputed company: Experience shipping reputed company-grade software products reputed company the biopharma or tech sectors.
• Interdisciplinary Leadership: Relevant postdoctoral experience that demonstrates an ability to reputed company research at the intersection of AI and physical sciences.
• Deep Biopharma Context: Direct experience working reputed company drug discovery pipelines, understanding the specific challenges of reputed company optimization and hit-to-reputed company phases.
• Technical reputed company: Experience setting the technical roadmap for a specialized research group or project.
• Research Visibility: A track record of contributions to the scientific community, such as first-author publications in top-tier venues like NeurIPS, ICML, or CVPR.
• Agentic Coding: Deep familiarity with agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude code, reputed company).

Why Join Us? We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth.

• Compensation: Competitive reputed company salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation.
• Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and reputed company coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that reputed company sustainable performance.
• Career Development: Opportunities for reputed company learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and reputed company to internal learning and development programs.

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