Postdoctoral AI/ML Scientist: Drug Discovery & Design

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 96.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Annual bonus

Vacation days

Parental leave

Bereavement leave

Well-being reimbursement

Insurance plans

Descripción de la vacante

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scientist – AI/ML to join the Data, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DDSAI) organization for a two-year fixed-term position. In this role, you will advance cutting-edge AI/ML approaches, biological sequence modeling, and generative AI technologies to address critical challenges in drug discovery and therapeutic design.

This position can be based in Beerse, Belgium; Madrid, Spain; Cambridge, MA; Spring House, PA.

Formación

• PhD completed within the last 3 years or to be completed within the next 6 months.
• Strong publication record in leading AI/ML conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
• Solid working knowledge of deep-learning architectures (e.g., transformers, graph neural networks).
• Experience with foundation or generative models for biological sequences is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Conceive, develop, and validate AI/ML approaches to address challenging problems in drug discovery and design.
• Design and implement foundation models, deep generative models, and representation learning for biological sequences and related modalities.
• Establish and execute lab-in-the-loop workflows that integrate AI-driven design with wet-lab experimentation.
• Analyse and interpret large-scale, complex biological datasets to generate novel scientific insights and hypotheses.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across computational biology, ML, and experimental sciences to translate methodological advances into impactful drug discovery applications.
• Clearly communicate complex technical methodologies and present findings to diverse audiences and stakeholders.
• Follow standard processes for documentation and maintaining an up-to-date code repository.
• Draft manuscripts and disseminate research findings internally and externally (e.g., publishing in top ML conferences).

Conocimientos

AI/ML

Sequence modeling

Geometric deep learning

Foundation models

Python

PyTorch

Communication

Educación

PhD in Computer Science/Statistics/EE/Applied Mathematics

Herramientas

Python

PyTorch

Descripción del empleo

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scientist – AI/ML to join the Data, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DDSAI) organization for a two-year fixed-term position. In this role, you will advance cutting-edge AI/ML approaches, biological sequence modeling, and generative AI technologies to address critical challenges in drug discovery and therapeutic design.

This position can be based in Beerse, Belgium; Madrid, Spain; Cambridge, MA; Spring House, PA.