Computational Biologist
valtera groupMillbrae (CA)
Computational Biologist
Posted 3 days ago
valtera groupMillbrae (CA)
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
AI Biologists | Multiple Openings | AI x Biology Scale-up | West Coast (remote considered) Want to teach AI how to do science?
We’re partnering with one of the fastest-growing companies at the intersection of AI and biology. They build AI agents and benchmarks for biological research, already used by the world’s leading frontier AI labs and a community of over 100,000 scientists.
Headcount has grown roughly tenfold this year, and they’re now hiring a large cohort of AI Biologists before the end of Q4.
This is a rare moment: your work here will shape how the most advanced AI models reason about biology.
The role:
You’ll turn your hands-on scientific expertise into ground truth. Working alongside software engineers and fellow scientists, you’ll build benchmark datasets from real discovery and research programmes that test whether AI agents can make the decisions a skilled scientist would. Where do they get it right, where do they fail, and why?
Teams are hiring across: Biologics and antibody/protein engineering
Oligonucleotide and RNA therapeutics
Protein function and design
Human genetics and variant analysis
Metagenomics and microbiome
Biosecurity and dual-use risk
What they’re looking for MSc or PhD in biology, bioinformatics, genetics, microbiology or a related field
2 to 5+ years of hands-on research or industry experience in one of the areas above
Confident in Python and/or R for data analysis
High agency: you like owning problems end to end and moving fast
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