Genomic ML Engineer: Plant DNA Language Models (Remote UK)

Society; United Kingdom; À distance; GBP 305 000 - 365 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

IsoGentiX is a young UK company building the genetic record of Madagascar’s endemic plants. We seek UK grant funding to develop a genomic language model that identifies plants from DNA alone and detects genes in alkaloid biosynthesis pathways.

The role focuses on adapting models to long-read data, training dual heads, benchmarking rigorous performance, and documenting results for a technical white paper. This is a 3-month full-time contract, remote within the UK, funded by grants.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience training a deep learning model on DNA, RNA or protein sequences.
• Experience with contrastive or metric learning and careful benchmark design.
• Proficiency with PyTorch on cloud GPUs and ability to design benchmarks.

Responsabilités

• Adapt an open plant DNA language model to noisy Oxford Nanopore long reads.
• Train two heads: specimen identification and alkaloid pathway gene flags.
• Build and run a benchmark on held-out genomes against current tools.
• Write up the results for a technical white paper.

Connaissances

Deep learning on DNA/RNA

Contrastive learning

Benchmark design

PyTorch

Formation

MSc/PhD in ML or Computational Biology

Outils

PyTorch

Description du poste

IsoGentiX is a young UK company building the genetic record of Madagascar’s endemic plants. We seek UK grant funding to develop a genomic language model that identifies plants from DNA alone and detects genes in alkaloid biosynthesis pathways.

The role focuses on adapting models to long-read data, training dual heads, benchmarking rigorous performance, and documenting results for a technical white paper. This is a 3-month full-time contract, remote within the UK, funded by grants.