Postdoctoral Scientist – Multimodal Representation Learning for Predictive Biology (AI/ML)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (preferred); Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States; Beerse, Belgium; or Madrid, Spain. No fully remote option.

Base pay: $92,000–$111,000 annually for candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States receive local-market compensation and benefits.

Company

Johnson & Johnson MedTech develops healthcare and medical solutions across Innovative Medicine and MedTech.

What you will do

• Design, develop, implement, validate, and benchmark AI/ML solutions for drug discovery using multimodal data from perturbed cells.
• Analyze high-content imaging, phenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics data to derive biological insights.
• Develop computer vision methods to quantify the heterogeneity of perturbed cellular systems.
• Collaborate with internal and external scientists and engineers on algorithm and product development.
• Communicate technical methods and findings to cross-functional audiences and stakeholders.
• Maintain documentation and code repositories, and prepare manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications and conferences.

Requirements

• Ph.D. completed within the last three years or expected within the next six months in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Strong expertise in AI/ML for biological applications and at least one of representation learning, multimodal integration, computational biology, or imaging microscopy.
• Experience with foundation models and/or multimodal modeling of biological data, including Cell Painting, imaging microscopy, or multi-omics.
• Knowledge of Transformers, CNNs, graph networks, self-supervised learning, multi-instance learning, and multimodal alignment and fusion.
• Programming proficiency, preferably in Python, and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Strong communication skills and a publication record in top-tier AI/ML conferences or journals.

Culture & Benefits

• Two-year fixed-term postdoctoral position within the Data, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence organization.
• Work on AI/ML, multimodal modeling, drug discovery, and predictive biology across multiple therapeutic areas.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, business accident, and group legal insurance may be available for eligible employees.
• Eligible employees may participate in pension and 401(k) savings plans.
• Vacation, sick time, holiday pay, and Work, Personal and Family Time are provided according to applicable local conditions.