Lead Scientist: Experimental Engine for Life Models

Inceptive; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days paid vacation

Comprehensive health insurance

401K with company match

Quarterly company retreats

Monthly wellness benefit

Budget for visits to Berlin, Palo Alto

Learning & Development budget

Buddy to help you settle

Job summary

Inceptive is building the experimental engine for models of life to enable medicines otherwise out of reach. We seek a scientific builder to integrate biology, genomics, screening, automation, and therapeutic development into a scalable platform that trains, tests, and improves models that design medicines.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, work with ML and translational biology experts, and design experiments to expand our models’ understanding of life and their ability to design better

Qualifications

• An outstanding record of innovation in scalable biological assays that advance therapeutic discovery, molecular design, or functional genomics
• Deep understanding of how experimental design, measurement quality, and biological context determine what models can learn from data
• Excellent communication across discipline boundaries, including fluency in analyzing and visualizing complex biological data
• Availability to work with team members across US and Europe, with meetings starting at 7am PT
• Readiness to travel several times a year for company retreats and business events
• We value in-person collaboration and expect candidates to work at our lab location

Responsibilities

• Define experimental strategy to close gaps in model understanding and therapeutic design performance
• Design experiments specifically to train and evaluate generative and predictive models, in close collaboration with biologists and ML experts
• Generate high-quality, model-ready data using scalable methods such as functional genomics, high-throughput screening, multi-omics, and phenotypic profiling
• Integrate assay development, automation, data generation, analysis, and interpretation in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Recruit and lead a multidisciplinary team of experimental scientists and technology builders

Job description

Inceptive is building the experimental engine for models of life to enable medicines otherwise out of reach. We seek a scientific builder to integrate biology, genomics, screening, automation, and therapeutic development into a scalable platform that trains, tests, and improves models that design medicines.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team, work with ML and translational biology experts, and design experiments to expand our models’ understanding of life and their ability to design better