Ai/ml Scientist – Protein Foundation Models

Manifold Biotechnologies Inc

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
On-site
Protein foundation models
Alphafold architecture
Pytorch and/or jax
Manifold Bio builds AI models for protein therapeutic design, trained on proprietary experimental data generated at unprecedented scale

Job Summary

  • Manifold Bio builds AI models for protein therapeutic design, trained on proprietary experimental data generated at unprecedented scale.
  • You will work alongside our existing model training team to accelerate the development of foundation models fine-tuned on Manifold's data, bringing additional depth in pre-training methodology, architecture development, and large-scale training.
  • Advance the team's ongoing foundation model training efforts—pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluating folding, docking, language, and generative design models on Manifold's proprietary experimental data.

Matching Summary

Manifold Bio builds AI models for protein therapeutic design, trained on proprietary experimental data generated at unprecedented scale.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • protein foundation models
  • AlphaFold architecture
  • PyTorch and/or JAX
  • large-scale model training
  • deep learning architectures
  • protein structure data

Nice-to-have

  • protein generative design methods
  • protein language models
  • distributed computing with Ray
  • Kubernetes and AWS
  • protein engineering wet lab techniques

Key Requirements

  • 2+ years of hands-on experience
  • Demonstrated experience pretraining and/or fine-tuning protein foundation models
  • Strong familiarity with AlphaFold architecture
  • Proficiency in Python scientific computing stack
  • Self-directed researcher
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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