Young Investigator, Open Language Models for Biology

Highlights

• Build multimodal models linking single-cell gene expression with text.
• Study Alzheimer's SEA-AD atlas from cells to regions and donors.
• Release open models, code and data for the research community.

What they offer

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan
• $125 monthly commuting or internet stipend
• $200 monthly fitness and wellbeing stipend
• Up to 20 vacation days plus sick, personal days and holidays
• Annual bonuses

Ideal candidate

A recent PhD at the intersection of ML and biology who designs careful experiments, works independently, and communicates across disciplines. Motivated by open science and applying language models to single-cell brain data.

Requirements

• Completed PhD or PhD expected within one year in ML, computational biology or related quantitative field
• Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning transformer-based language models
• Strong Python and PyTorch skills
• Experience writing reliable, reproducible research code
• Ability to carry out independent research on open-ended problems
• Ability to communicate with ML researchers and biological scientists