Lead, Machine Learning Engineering & AI Research Job - Karkidi

Lead, Machine Learning Engineering & AI Research

1910 Genetics
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Job Description

Computation is revolutionizing drug discovery. Advances in big chemical data, massive computing power, artificial intelligence, and molecular dynamics simulation are changing the way we develop new drugs. At 1910 Genetics, we put computation at the heart of drug discovery, blending expertise in computational chemistry, structural biology, pharmacology, genetics, data science, and software engineering to develop drugs for previously undruggable targets.

You are someone we can count on to... 

Act as both an Individual Contributor (IC), who can roll up her sleeve, and play an important role in our mission to use AI/ML to develop drugs against historically difficult disease targets, as well as a Leader who can build and grow the ML Engineering & AI Research team over time 

We can count on you to…

  • Work closely with our academic Founding Scientist to build and launch our protein design platform with several applications including but not limited to protein structure refinement, protein structure prediction, therapeutic protein design, among other basic and translational research applications

Your key responsibilities will include… 

  • Own
  • Propose innovative AI/ML models that address specific use cases in our drug discovery process 
  • Develop and launch prototype models 
  • Productionize AI/ML models on AWS 
  • Own the company’s AWS Infrastructure 
  • Grow the team 

Teach

  • Teach their cross-disciplinary colleagues from Computational Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Computational Biology, Cell Biology, and Pharmacology, how AI/ML can solve important problems for them 

Learn

  • Drug discovery and development 

Improve

  • Our existing process for incorporating AI/ML into drug discovery 

Within 1 month this person will…

  • Form a view on which AI/ML models address the highest need use cases 
  • in our drug discovery process 
  • Begin prototyping AI/ML models on AWS 

Within 3 months this person will…

  • Productionize AI/ML models on AWS that would become a cornerstone of the company’s drug discovery efforts 

Within 6 months this person will…

  • Continue improving the first set of production-grade AI/ML models on AWS 
  • Build and produce improved AI/ML models on AWS to harmonize, and accelerate our drug discovery process 

Within 1 year this person will…

  • Grow the team with new hires including ML Engineers, AI Researchers, and Product Managers 

Compensation and Benefits

  • Extremely generous equity package coupled with competitive salary 
  • Healthcare benefits 
  • Generous vacation and parental leave 
  • Super cool team building activities 
  • Flexible work schedule 
  • Great colleagues

Company Info.

1910 Genetics

At 1910 Genetics, we employ a combination of AI, computation, and biological automation to hasten the development of small molecule and protein therapeutics. Our goal is to diminish the time and expense associated with drug development, while also advancing the likelihood of delivering groundbreaking medications to patients who require them.

  • Industry
    Biotechnology Research
  • No. of Employees
    50
  • Location
    Boston, MA, USA
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