Computational Biologist, Immune Cell Repolarization (AI)

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid); onsite at least 60% of the working month, approximately three days per week.

Base pay: $153,000–$191,000 per year, with possible eligibility for a discretionary annual performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global brings frontier AI models, large-scale computing, biological foundation models, and experimental capabilities together to accelerate scientific discovery and develop disease treatments.

What you will do

• Develop, apply, and evaluate computational and AI methodologies for biological research.
• Build mechanistic models of tumor-immune-stromal crosstalk using transcriptional, TCR-Seq, spatial, clinical, pre-clinical, and other relevant datasets.
• Develop, test, and validate models in collaboration with interdisciplinary research teams.
• Communicate research progress and results to internal and external colleagues.
• Publish findings through preprints and software repositories such as GitHub.
• Support patenting and licensing of technologies resulting from the research.

Requirements

• PhD in Systems Biology, AI/Machine Learning, or Statistics, or an MS degree with relevant professional experience.
• 1–2 years of relevant biomedical science experience and strong knowledge of cellular biology, transcription, and protein signal transduction.
• Ability to create, implement, and evaluate computational methodologies using machine learning, statistics, and AI.
• Programming experience in R and Python.
• Experience building and evaluating machine-learning or neural-network models on biological data, including feature selection, regularization, model introspection, and interpretability.
• Experience using or modifying probabilistic-learning or deep-learning models, such as RNNs, GNNs, protein sequence models, or NLP models.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment connecting Columbia University, The Rockefeller University, and Yale University.
• Focus on scholarly excellence, innovation, open communication, hands-on hacking, partnership, and open science.
• Employer matching on employee 401(k) contributions.
• Paid time off for volunteering and funding for select family-forming benefits.
• Relocation support is available for employees who need assistance moving.

Hiring process

• Submit a cover letter with the resume.
• Work schedule and specific in-office days are communicated during the interview process and determined by the hiring manager.