Founding ML Scientist for AI-Driven Therapeutics

Pantera Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Tabula is an AI-first therapeutics company building engineered living therapies. We are hiring a Founding ML Scientist to help construct the machine learning core of the company and to work closely with our wet lab to iterate on data and models.

This role is research-oriented, emphasizing modern ML, deep learning, and rapid experimentation. You will help define research direction, model quality, and reproducibility, influencing how the company applies ML to real-world therapies.

Qualifications

• Strong background in modern machine learning and deep learning.
• Ability to reason clearly about model architectures, training, evaluation, and tradeoffs.
• Comfort working in an early-stage environment where problems are hard and paths are still being defined.

Responsibilities

• Design and run model experiments against difficult biological data.
• Help define the research roadmap for Tabula’s models.
• Work closely with the lab to shape data generation and its purpose.
• Build better practices around experimentation, evaluation, and reproducibility.
• Contribute to technical decisions around model design, training, and research direction.
• Help a small team build an AI company whose output is real therapies for real patients.

Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Python

PyTorch

ML tooling

Tools

Python

PyTorch

ML Stack

Job description

Tabula is an AI-first therapeutics company building engineered living therapies. We are hiring a Founding ML Scientist to help construct the machine learning core of the company and to work closely with our wet lab to iterate on data and models.

This role is research-oriented, emphasizing modern ML, deep learning, and rapid experimentation. You will help define research direction, model quality, and reproducibility, influencing how the company applies ML to real-world therapies.