Senior Scientist, Multimodal Biological Reasoning

flagshippioneeringinc; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pioneering Intelligence seeks a Senior Scientist to build polyintelligent AI systems that combine human biology expertise with machine intelligence to enable multi-modal, multi-scale reasoning for biology. You will shape our biological reasoning efforts at both technical and application levels, designing architectures and training strategies for cutting-edge models.

You will curate datasets, translate biological questions into ML problems, and collaborate across Pioneering Intelligence and

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Systems Biology or related quantitative field (or Master's with equivalent research experience).
• Strong machine learning and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience handling and processing large scale biological datasets.
• Ability to work independently in an ambiguous environment, foster cross-team collaborations, and communicate externally.
• Demonstrated ability to work in cross-functional settings with scientists or biotech teams to bridge needs and technical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design technical architecture, training strategies, and evaluations for a multi-modal, multi-scale biological reasoning model.
• Train and validate large-scale biological reasoning models.
• Development and curation of novel biological datasets. Construct new datasets and benchmarks to empirically evaluate biological validity and generalization.
• Translate biological questions into well-defined ML problems, build and scale training data pipelines and model benchmarks for downstream applications.
• Contribute to the technical and product roadmap, data strategy and research priorities.

Skills

Strong ML fundamentals

Software engineering

Independent work

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Master's with equivalent research experience

Tools

Distributed training infrastructure

Job description

Pioneering Intelligence seeks a Senior Scientist to build polyintelligent AI systems that combine human biology expertise with machine intelligence to enable multi-modal, multi-scale reasoning for biology. You will shape our biological reasoning efforts at both technical and application levels, designing architectures and training strategies for cutting-edge models.

You will curate datasets, translate biological questions into ML problems, and collaborate across Pioneering Intelligence and