Bioinformatics/AI Scientist (San Francisco)
Our client leverages machine learning to accelerate drug development and transform clinical trial design. Their cutting-edge research spans multimodal generative modeling, representation learning, and reinforcement learningapplied to extract meaningful insights from complex imaging and omics datasets. Title: Bioinformatics/AI Scientist Oncology Job Type: 12-months (Likely to extend or be brought on perm) Location: Remote (Must be available during PST) Pay: $40-50/hr + Depending on experience About the Role Our client is seeking a talented and highly motivated Computational Scientist (Contract) with a strong analytical background in Bioinformatics and ML/AI to join their Oncology team. Responsibilities • Work under the supervision of group leaders in Computational Biology and Translation to benchmark ML/AI models integrating large-scale multiomics preclinical and clinical datasets. • Write scalable Python code to benchmark the performance of state-of-the-art ML models on predefined preclinical and clinical tasks. Requirements • PhD in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, or a related field. • Extensive experience (6+ years) in large-scale bulk data analysis (RNA, WES), including gold-standard methods and novel, advanced analytical techniques. • Experience (3+ years) in training and applying modern ML architectures and models to omics data. • Expertise in cancer biology or clinical omics data. • Experience working with Git and high-performance computing. • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. Apply tot his job