AI Scientist (BioMedical AI)

Location: South San Francisco, California, United States

Base salary: $212,000–$265,000 annually, plus bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is a biotech startup using generative AI and foundation models to advance drug discovery, design protein and antibody therapeutics, and improve target elucidation and patient stratification.

What you will do

• Design, train, and refine foundation models for perturb-seq and other single-cell datasets.
• Build scalable pipelines for preprocessing, normalization, and integration of large-scale biological data.
• Apply machine learning to model cellular responses and identify causal biological insights.
• Develop multimodal integration methods across transcriptomic, epigenomic, and proteomic readouts.
• Collaborate with experimental biologists to align computational methods with experimental design and discovery goals.
• Publish research methods and results in scientific journals and present at conferences.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent in computational biology, computer science, bioinformatics, or a related discipline.
• Strong expertise in single-cell data analysis, particularly perturb-seq.
• Hands-on experience with foundation models or large-scale self-supervised learning, including transformers or variational autoencoders.
• Strong coding skills in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience with single-cell analysis tools such as Scanpy and Seurat.
• Experience developing scalable ML methods for large biological datasets.

Nice to have

• Background in causal inference, generative models, or representation learning for biological systems.
• Familiarity with multi-omics integration and cross-modal foundation models.
• Impactful publications in computational biology, machine learning, or related fields.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, flexible, and friendly work environment.
• Opportunities to develop a long-term scientific career.
• Competitive benefits package with base salary, bonus, and equity.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.