Machine Learning Scientist

🕒 December 25, 2025

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Variational AI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Artificial Intelligence • Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals

Variational AI is a generative AI drug discovery company that uses its Enki™ foundation model to design novel, synthesizable small-molecule compounds optimized for potency, selectivity, safety, and pharmacokinetics. The platform generates target-specific compounds de novo to accelerate early-stage discovery workflows, reduce reliance on large screening libraries, and enable rapid lead generation and multi-objective optimization, with initial focus areas including oncology and collaborations with pharma and biotech partners.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, test, and refine novel elements of a machine learning architecture built to optimize the properties of small molecule drugs; • Continually improve the robustness of the existing code base; • Apply the pipeline to new drug targets.

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. in CS, applied mathematics, statistics, physics, or related discipline; • Expertise with machine learning techniques, including diffusion models, Transformers, and Bayesian optimization, demonstrated through first-author publications in conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML; • Two or more years’ experience developing robust code on larger projects, including code review, refactoring, unit testing, version control, etc.; • Mastery of Python and PyTorch; • Intellectual curiosity and drive to excel.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive mix of cash and options