Senior ML Scientist: Molecular Design for Sustainable Ag

Bindbridge Ltd; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bindbridge Ltd in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to build the next generation of our AI-driven molecular glue discovery platform. You will set technical direction, review code and methods, and scale research ideas from prototype to production.

You will own models powering the platform from structure prediction to candidate design and scoring, translating biology and chemistry research into actionable modelling strategies while mentoring engineers as the team expands.

Qualifications

• Significant experience applying ML to real-world problems in structural biology, chemistry or drug discovery.
• Proven experience leading ML teams and setting technical direction in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Depth in at least one of: protein structure and complex prediction, docking or generative molecular design.
• Strong hands-on experience with PyTorch and the scientific Python ecosystem.
• Experience contributing to and maintaining deep-learning codebases, with a high bar for engineering quality, reproducibility and testing.
• The judgement to review methods, models and code you did not write, and to tell when a number is measuring the wrong thing.
• A collaborative approach to solving problems.

Responsibilities

• Build the models powering the platform, from structure prediction through candidate design to the scoring layer that ranks them.
• Set technical direction and own the quality bar day to day: review code and methods, decide what gets built and what gets cut, and scale research ideas from prototype to production.
• Translate biology and chemistry team's research into concrete modelling strategies.
• Help hire, onboard and mentor engineers as the team grows.

Skills

Applied ML

ML leadership

Protein structure

PyTorch

Deep learning

Model evaluation

Collaboration

Tools

Python

Git

Job description

Bindbridge Ltd in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Scientist to build the next generation of our AI-driven molecular glue discovery platform. You will set technical direction, review code and methods, and scale research ideas from prototype to production.

You will own models powering the platform from structure prediction to candidate design and scoring, translating biology and chemistry research into actionable modelling strategies while mentoring engineers as the team expands.