Executive Lead, Molecular AI & Federated Learning

Scorpion Therapeutics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 282,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

401(k)

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Life insurance

Paid time off

Well-being benefits

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics seeks a Director, Molecular AI & Federated Learning (TuneLab) to unite privacy-preserving federated learning with generative small-molecule design. You will lead predictive and generative models accelerating lead optimization and candidate selection.

You'll provide technical vision, mentorship, and rigorous methods for scalable federated learning and molecular AI, shaping a platform that integrates advanced ML with chemistry domain knowledge.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Computational Chemistry, Cheminformatics, ML, computational biology, or related field.
• 5+ years post-PhD ML drug-discovery experience (prefer 8+).

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and research agenda for federated learning and molecular AI.
• Provide principal technical leadership and mentor data scientists and engineers; guide experimental design and code reviews.
• Architect federated foundation models (Transformer and GNN-based) for large-scale pre-training.
• Develop federated optimization strategies (FedAvg/FedProx/SCAFFOLD) for non-IID data.
• Build scalable systems and simulation environments to benchmark federated strategies.

Skills

Federated learning

GNNs

PyTorch

RDKit

DeepChem

Education

PhD in relevant field

Tools

RDKit

DeepChem

PyTorch

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics seeks a Director, Molecular AI & Federated Learning (TuneLab) to unite privacy-preserving federated learning with generative small-molecule design. You will lead predictive and generative models accelerating lead optimization and candidate selection.

You'll provide technical vision, mentorship, and rigorous methods for scalable federated learning and molecular AI, shaping a platform that integrates advanced ML with chemistry domain knowledge.