Senior Machine Learning Scientist (AI for Biology & Translation)

Location: South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Salary: $147,800–$274,400 per year. A discretionary annual bonus may also be available.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and applies computational science, artificial intelligence, and biomedical research to accelerate drug discovery and development.

What you will do

• Develop and apply advanced machine learning methods to biology and translational research problems.
• Develop, adapt, evaluate, and deploy foundation models, large language models, multimodal models, and generative AI approaches for biomedical applications.
• Design scalable workflows integrating biological, molecular, imaging, and clinical datasets.
• Optimize, benchmark, validate, and interpret AI models for scientific use.
• Collaborate with computational scientists, software engineers, biologists, clinicians, and therapeutic area researchers.
• Establish best practices for model development, evaluation, reproducibility, and deployment.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in machine learning, computer science, artificial intelligence, computational biology, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline, with significant postdoctoral or industry experience.
• Deep expertise in deep learning, foundation models, generative AI, large language models, multimodal learning, or related areas.
• Experience leading technically complex machine learning projects from research through deployment or scientific application.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face.
• Experience adapting, fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying large-scale AI models and building reproducible, scalable machine learning pipelines.
• Work location: South San Francisco, California, United States. Relocation benefits are not available.

Nice to have

• Experience with multimodal biomedical datasets, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, imaging, pathology, or clinical data.
• Experience building production-quality AI systems or scalable machine learning infrastructure.
• Publications or significant technical contributions in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational biology, or related disciplines.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration across computational and experimental disciplines.
• Opportunities to apply emerging AI technologies to biomedical discovery and drug development.
• Benefits are available for the position.
• The role is part of the Computational Sciences Center of Excellence supporting hirify.global Research and Early Development and Pharma Research and Early Development.