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Senior Protein Design Research Scientist

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️Role: Senior Protein Design Research Scientist

Series A, TechBio Startup

Location: London, UK (hybrid)

Salary: 80-115k + equity


Interested to work for a protein design company creating the next wave of AI for drug discovery?


If you have any experience withdesigning proteins, antibodies or enzymesI would love to hear from you!


Responsibilities:

  • Proficient in Python and experience with HPC and cloud environments and with tools like AlphaFold, RosettaFold, ProteinMPNN etc.
  • Lead the development of protein design filtering and ranking capabilities, leveraging AI and physics-based methods.
  • Experience with pre-training, refinement, fine-tuning, inference and scaling models and benchmarking predictive methods for protein design.
  • Experience with SOTA deep learning architectures including, such as, diffusion models, protein language models/transformer, GNNs.


Background:

  • A PhD in ML, Protein Design, ML for Antibody Design, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science or related areas.
  • 4+ work experience in a technical role, in agile fast-paced environments.
  • Experience with AI protein design, protein structure and property prediction methods.
  • Experience with protein structure databases as well as with protein structure preparation and curation.
  • Solid understanding of protein structure and function (e.g, protein-ligand interactions.)


Benefits:

  • Great Equity
  • Private Healthcare Insurance (dental + health)
  • Great Pension contribution


Click the Easy Apply button, looking forward for working with you!

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