Senior Machine Learning Scientist

The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Genentech. ​

The Opportunity

At Genentech Computational Sciences (gCS) Prescient Design, we are revolutionizing drug discovery with cutting-edge machine learning techniques. We are seeking talented engineers with a passion for building large-scale, distributed machine-learning algorithms and systems that will transform the drug discovery process.

The Frey lab within the Large Molecule AI/ML Department of Prescient is looking for exceptional machine learning scientists who want to perform high-quality research at the cross-section of machine learning and biology that have a direct impact in large molecule drug discovery. Researchers will primarily focus on the deep learning subfield of machine learning and should have a strong interest in fundamental research in self-supervised learning and training and fine-tuning foundation models. 

In this role, you will:

• Develop novel Computational Biology/Machine Learning methods to answer challenging research questions in LMDD

• Work with the Genentech Large Language Model team to build and apply LLMs for therapeutic molecule design

• Work with biological data from heterogeneous sources

• Form close working relationships with research teams across the gRED organization

• Contribute to and drive publications and present scientific findings at internal/external venues.

Who you are

• You have a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Physics or related disciplines, or an MS degree in the above disciplines with 3+ years of industry research experience.

• You have demonstrated experience with Python and deep learning libraries such as Pytorch and/or Jax.

• You have demonstrated research experience, including at least one first-author publication or equivalent.

• You have strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred

• Experience working with data from biology, immunology or related disciplines

• Experience with research related to large language models

• Public portfolio of computational projects (available on e.g. GitHub)

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Relocation benefits are available for this job posting

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of New York City is $160,100 - 297,300 of hiring range.  Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.  A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance.  This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

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