Member of the Technical Staff, Molecular Generation

Outputbiosciences; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity in startup

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

Job summary

Outputbiosciences in New York is seeking a Member of the Technical Staff focusing on Molecular Generation. You will lead the design and development of generative models that produce novel molecules for therapeutic applications. Candidates should hold a PhD in a relevant field or have significant experience in generative modeling.

The role offers a competitive salary, equity, and excellent medical coverage within a passionate team committed to solving complex biological challenges.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of post-doctoral or industry research experience in generative modeling.
• Strong publication record in top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
• Extensive hands-on experience with generative models.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of generative models for biological data.
• Develop training approaches using diverse biological signals.
• Design evaluation frameworks for biologically meaningful and novel outputs.

Skills

Generative modeling

Python

PyTorch

Deep learning

Multi-GPU training

Education

PhD in computer science, machine learning, physics, mathematics, or related field

Bachelor's or Master's degree with 5+ years hands-on experience

Tools

Distributed GPU infrastructure

Job description

We're building the foundation for the next era of biology

We're looking for exceptional, mission-driven people who want to take on the hardest questions in the field and shape what comes next.

Member of the Technical Staff, Molecular Generation

Location

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Compensation

Output has built a biological reasoning model that understands biology at the scale and complexity life actually operates. Our model independently learned the principles of molecular interactions, opening up drug treatments that were previously impossible. We're already generating therapies that traditional approaches cannot reach. The hardest problems in both AI and biology are being solved here, and there is room for you to own one.

Output is currently in stealth, operated by a team of repeat founders and biotech veterans with multiple exits in AI x Bio, and backed by top-tier VCs including Y Combinator.

You will lead the design and development of Output's generative models, working across molecular modalities to build systems that produce novel, biologically grounded molecules. This role spans the full arc from research to trained model: you design architectures, develop training approaches, run experiments on distributed GPU clusters, and evaluate results.

You will design and build generative architectures for molecular data spanning multiple modalities, including small molecules, peptides, mini proteins and more

You will develop training approaches that learn from diverse biological signal, ensuring the model composes genuinely novel structures

You will build methods for controllable, targeted generation, enabling the model to produce molecules with specified biological properties while satisfying real-world chemical constraints

You will integrate biological reasoning from our foundation model into the generative pipeline, using learned biological representations to guide and condition generation

You will own training end-to-end: experiment design, distributed training on multi-GPU clusters, hyperparameter optimization, and iteration

You will design evaluation frameworks that go beyond statistical metrics to measure whether generated molecules are biologically meaningful, structurally valid, and genuinely novel

About You

You have a PhD in computer science, machine learning, physics, mathematics, or a related field with 2+ years of post-doctoral or industry research experience, or a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 5+ years of hands‑on research and engineering experience in generative modeling

You have a strong publication record in generative methods at top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)

You have extensive hands‑on experience designing, building, and training deep generative models, including work on novel architectures, training objectives, or sampling methods

You are proficient in Python and PyTorch, and have experience training models on distributed multi-GPU infrastructure

You have demonstrated the ability to own the full research-to-training pipeline: you do not just design methods, you train and ship models

You write production-quality code that is well-tested and maintainable, and you are comfortable working in shared codebases with version control and code review

You are a rigorous experimentalist who designs evaluations carefully, tracks experiments systematically, and draws conclusions from data

Bonus Points

You have experience applying generative models to molecular, chemical, or biological data

You have a background in chemistry, biology, computational biology, biophysics, or a related natural science

You have experience with multi-modal learning or cross-modality translation

You have experience with conditional or controllable generation methods

You have contributed to open-source machine learning projects

Our Values

Heart: We foster a culture of ownership. We are assembling a team of individuals who are passionate and take pride in their contributions.

Excellence: We have an unwavering commitment to excellence and continuously challenge ourselves to reach the highest standards.

Practicality: We value practicality and results-oriented thinking. We are committed to making a tangible impact on the lives of patients and the broader community.

Honesty: We place a high value on honesty and directness. We firmly believe in addressing issues as they arise, in an open and transparent manner.

Fun: We believe that life is too short to not have fun. Our goal is to create a workplace that is fun, engaging, rewarding and fulfilling.

What We Offer

We encourage new and different ideas, creativity and contrarian thinking

Healthy feedback focused environment to help you strive - leadership will have high expectations, regularly share constructive feedback, support you and help you grow, and welcome receiving feedback and ideas from you

You own your day-to-day management. What we care about is that we all hit our milestones

Competitive salary and equity in a growing, well-funded startup

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage