Senior ML Scientist - AI Virtual Cell Modeling

Rivercell; Paris; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Growth opportunities

Cutting-edge biotech project

Job summary

Rivercell seeks a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to help build and scale its AI Virtual Cell (AIVC) models in a collaborative biotech startup. You will influence the scientific direction, contribute to the modeling agenda, and help recruit the ML team.

You will join an interdisciplinary team spanning genetics, AI, software, biology, and bio-lab automation, contributing to the project from its inception and pushing the field forward with reproducible research and public benchmarks.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent industry research experience in ML/biology.
• Hands-on experience training models on single-cell or perturbation data.
• At least one first-author publication in a relevant venue or demonstrable adoption in the field.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap and research priorities through literature reviews and experiments.
• Identify and harmonize useful cellular datasets with the biology team.
• Implement, train, and test AI virtual cell models.

Skills

PyTorch

Distributed training

Single-cell data

Engineering practices

Scientific communication

Leadership

Education

PhD in ML/Computational Biology

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Rivercell seeks a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to help build and scale its AI Virtual Cell (AIVC) models in a collaborative biotech startup. You will influence the scientific direction, contribute to the modeling agenda, and help recruit the ML team.

You will join an interdisciplinary team spanning genetics, AI, software, biology, and bio-lab automation, contributing to the project from its inception and pushing the field forward with reproducible research and public benchmarks.