Member of the Technical Staff, Pretraining
$120,000โ$250,000 year
On-site ยท New York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Member of the Technical Staff will own pretraining end-to-end: design architectures and training objectives for a foundation model focused on biological reasoning, run pretraining at scale on multi-GPU clusters, and evaluate whether the model has learned real biological reasoning. Responsibilities include advancing architecture and training approaches for biological modalities, building unified representations across molecular biology data, extending reasoning across biological phenomena, and designing evaluation frameworks. The role requires proficiency in Python and PyTorch, experience pretraining large models on diverse data, and the ability to own the full research-to-training pipeline with production-quality code. Bonus points for background in chemistry/biology/bi Computational biology, multimodal learning, open-source contributions, and a strong publication record in NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR. Our values emphasize ownership, excellence, practicality, honesty, and a fun, collaborative culture.
Required Qualifications
- PhD in computer science, machine learning, physics, mathematics, or a related field with 2+ years post-doctoral or industry research experience, or a Bachelor's or Master's degree with 5+ years hands-on research/engineering experience in representation learning and model pretraining
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