AI in Residence: Protein Design & Discovery

Xaira

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 112,000 - 167,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Xaira Therapeutics invites applications for AI in Residence, a selective program at the frontier of machine learning and drug discovery in Seattle. You will join a small cohort, collaborating with AI scientists, research engineers, and drug discovery teams to design, build, and ship ML capabilities that directly influence therapeutic programs.

You will work hands-on on system-level projects with real scientific consequences, guided by mentors from AI, engineering, and scientific leadership.

Qualifications

Recent MS or PhD graduates in ML/AI, computational biology, biomedical engineering, or related fields.
Evidence of research excellence through high-quality publications or artifacts.
Demonstrated ability to lead substantial technical work with originality.
Motivation to translate rigorous research into reliable, deployable AI systems that support therapeutic discovery.

Responsibilities

Develop and advance ML models for protein and antibody design using biophysical and sequence data.
Design and implement scalable pipelines for data curation, training, evaluation, and inference in discovery workflows.
Evaluate robustness and interpretability to support scientific decision-making.
Contribute technical leadership by proposing new directions and raising engineering/research standards.