Senior Data Scientist - Frontier Biology AI & Discovery

Biohub; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 331,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match with employer contrib

Paid time off to volunteer

Relocation support

Job summary

Biohub in Redwood City, CA is seeking a data scientist to advance data systems for biological frontier models. You will design data representations and tokenization strategies for imaging data, working across Experimental, Data Science, Data Engineering and AI Research teams to translate biological structure into learnable representations.

You will align data acquisition priorities, define quality criteria, and integrate diverse modalities into training frameworks while evaluating representation

Qualifications

• PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, or quantitative biological field.
• Experience with tokenization strategies for non-text data (images, sequences, graphs, time series).
• Track record of novel methodological contributions (publications, open-source tools, or production systems).
• Familiarity with biological foundation models (ESM, scGPT, or similar).
• Deep understanding of imaging data and how to transform raw data into AI-ready datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design data representations and tokenization strategies for imaging data that enable novel model architectures.
• Coordinate Experimental, Data Science, Data Engineering and AI Research teams to translate biological structure into learnable representations.
• Guide data acquisition priorities, define quality criteria, and assess external datasets from a representation perspective.
• Develop and validate approaches for combining heterogeneous data modalities into unified training frameworks.
• Evaluate how representation choices impact model performance and iterate to improve.

Skills

PhD in computational biology

Tokenization strategies (non-text data

Novel methodological contributions

Familiarity with biological foundation

Imaging data mastery

Data representations/feature eng forML

ML architectures (transformers/diffu)

Python and scientific computing

First-principles data thinking

Education

PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, or quantitative biology

Tools

Python

Scientific computing libraries

Job description

Biohub in Redwood City, CA is seeking a data scientist to advance data systems for biological frontier models. You will design data representations and tokenization strategies for imaging data, working across Experimental, Data Science, Data Engineering and AI Research teams to translate biological structure into learnable representations.

You will align data acquisition priorities, define quality criteria, and integrate diverse modalities into training frameworks while evaluating representation