Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Multimodal Drug Discovery

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🕒 June 25, 2025

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Coders Connect

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🤝 B2B

🎯 Recruiter

B2B • Recruitment • Technology

Coders Connect is a specialist technology recruitment partner for start-ups across the globe. They focus on connecting talented individuals in fields such as Software Engineering, Data Engineering, DevOps, QA Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science with leading tech start-ups. Coders Connect offers a full hiring lifecycle experience, from talent identification to onboarding and aftercare, ensuring that both clients and candidates receive the best possible service.

📋 Description

• Coders Connect is collaborating with a cutting-edge biotech startup redefining how foundational biology meets AI. • Train multimodal foundation models from real human biological data to revolutionize drug discovery. • We’re seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist with a deep interest in applying state-of-the-art ML techniques—like transformers and diffusion models—to problems at the frontier of computational biology. • Design and develop multimodal foundation models for gene regulation and drug response. • Integrate chemical structure, protein sequences, and single-cell transcriptomics into unified models. • Adopt and implement latest advances in deep learning (e.g., self-supervised learning, FSDP, dMoE). • Work in cross-functional teams with biologists, engineers, and data scientists. • Drive hypothesis generation using ML and contribute to novel biological insights.

🎯 Requirements

• PhD or equivalent practical experience in a technical/ML-focused field • Proven experience with deep learning (transformers, GNNs, SSMs, diffusion models, etc.) • Strong skills in PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow, and scientific libraries like NumPy, Pandas • Motivation to apply ML to real-world biological or chemical datasets • Bias toward rapid prototyping and practical outcomes • Bonus Points For: Prior work in computational biology or drug discovery • Experience with contrastive/multimodal/self-supervised learning • Familiarity with large-scale distributed training and GPU optimizations

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Monthly lunch allowance + remote office setup stipend • Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Hybrid flexibility from South San Francisco or Toronto