About the Role
As an AI Scientist, you will be a crucial member of our core AI team, initiating and driving new projects that advance SOTA AI models for biology impacting drug discovery and clinical development. You will also have the chance to work closely with interdisciplinary experts with world-class biology, drug discovery, and clinical expertise.
Responsibilities
- Initiate and drive new projects that advance SOTA AI models for biology impacting drug discovery and clinical development.
- Work closely with interdisciplinary experts with world-class biology, drug discovery, and clinical expertise.
Requirements
- Track record of AI Innovation demonstrated through publications in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning or projects applying them to interdisciplinary fields.
- Experienced in developing and implementing new deep learning methods.
- Experienced in PyTorch, training and inference of large models on GPUs.
- Scientifically curious with an interest to work on interdisciplinary teams.
- 3+ years of work experience post-PhD in an industrial setting or equivalent academic post-doctoral experience.
- Peer reviewed published research in developing AI methods (example in ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, Nature, Science, Cell etc.).
- Experience in working at the interface of AI and Biology.
- Experience working on large scale distributed training and inference.
- Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers.
- Participation in the open-source community.
Skills
- Deep learning methods
- PyTorch
- Training and inference of large models on GPUs
- AI and Biology
- Large scale distributed training and inference
- Communicating research for public audiences of peers
- Open-source community participation
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Seattle
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level
- Mid-level
- Seasoned expert
- 3+ years of work experience post-PhD
Education Level
- PhD in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning or related technical fields
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 - $240,000 annually
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits package
- Open, flexible, and friendly work environment
- Platform to develop long-term careers
- Summary of Benefits available for all applicants
- Base salary, bonus, and equity
About the Company
- Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development.
- The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets.
- It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification.
- Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development.
- Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.
Equal Opportunity
- Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer.
- We believe that our strength is in our differences.
- Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.
