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VantAI · 4 months ago

Senior Computational Biologist

Greater Boston

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $180K/yr

VantAI combines cutting-edge machine learning with deep systems biology to revolutionize drug discovery. They are seeking a Senior Computational Biologist to develop AI-enabled drug discovery platforms, collaborating with various teams to create innovative computational methods and models.

Alternative MedicineArtificial Intelligence (AI)BiotechnologyClinical TrialsLife ScienceMachine LearningPharmaceutical

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop pilot capabilities and create large-scale data pipelines from the ground up

Collaborate with other teams across VantAI and partnering organizations to achieve project goals by contributing code, analyses, benchmarks, optimizations and ideas to ongoing research-driven projects

Integrate biological insights into the next generation of AI/ML models for drug discovery

Validate and interpret computational predictions by working closely with experimentalists

Qualification

Computational BiologyMachine LearningPythonGeometric Deep LearningCloud-based InfrastructureDrug DiscoveryAgile Project ManagementRSystems BiologyBioinformatics

Required

Hold an MSc or PhD degree in computational biology, bioinformatics or a related field

Possess mixed academic and/or industrial experience, preferably in the biotech industry

Have a strong background in computational structural or systems biology

Demonstrate strong programming skills in Python, R and/or other languages

Experience building reproducible and scalable computational biology workflows

Experience designing and applying machine learning models

Preferred

Experience with geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, protein language models, transformers and representation learning is a plus

Preferably have prior exposure to drug discovery problems

Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure

Agile project management

Company

VantAI

VantAI build computational models, relationships between molecules, targets, and diseases.

Founded in 2019

New York, New York, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.vant.ai

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