AI-Driven Protein Design Architect (Residency)

Xaira Therapeutics; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Xaira Therapeutics in the United States seeks an AI in Residence to apply advanced ML to drug discovery, bridging data and deployed systems. You will work with AI scientists, research engineers, and drug discovery teams on end-to-end projects affecting therapeutic programs.

Candidates should have technical depth, intellectual independence, and evidence of delivering high-quality work, including publications or shipped systems.

Qualifications

• Recent MS/PhD in ML/AI, computational biology, biomedical engineering, or related fields.
• Demonstrated research excellence via publications, artifacts, or shipped systems.
• Ability to lead substantial technical work with originality and rigorous experiments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy ML models for protein/antibody design across data sources.
• Build scalable data pipelines for curation, training, evaluation, and inference.
• Assess generalization and uncertainty to support scientific decisions.
• Collaborate with AI scientists and discovery teams to raise engineering standards.

Skills

ML for protein design

Biology knowledge

Research leadership

Python

PyTorch

Education

MS or PhD in ML/AI or computational biology

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Docker

Scikit-learn

Job description

Xaira Therapeutics in the United States seeks an AI in Residence to apply advanced ML to drug discovery, bridging data and deployed systems. You will work with AI scientists, research engineers, and drug discovery teams on end-to-end projects affecting therapeutic programs.

Candidates should have technical depth, intellectual independence, and evidence of delivering high-quality work, including publications or shipped systems.