What are the responsibilities and job description for the Machine Learning/Computational Biology Scientist position at Kerna Labs?
ML / Computational Biology Scientist
Kerna Labs is building foundation models of RNA biology to discover and develop better genetic medicines. Our mission is to leverage advanced computational techniques and high-throughput biology to fundamentally change the way we do drug discovery and development.
Kerna Labs was founded by industry veterans with deep expertise in building machine learning models for RNA. At Kerna, you’ll be surrounded by exceptional team members who are curious, driven, and humble, including :
- Founding Scientist of Deep Genomics who built the ML platform and led the team behind BigRNA
- The former Chief Scientific Officer of Moderna
- 2nd-time founder of a biomaterials company
- PhDs in Machine Learning and Biology from Stanford, MIT, Princeton and the University of Toronto
The Role
As one of the first scientific hires at Kerna Labs, you will play a pivotal role in advancing our RNA foundation models. You’ll apply your skills in machine learning to build and scale models that learn the underlying rules of RNA biology, in order to design mRNA drugs with superior properties than any existing approach.
In the first month, you’ll be responsible for the next OOM model scaling of our RNA foundation model. In the next two months, you’ll implement a diffusion-based model for designing novel mRNA sequences. In the next three months, collaborating closely with our experimental team, you will implement an active learning loop to enable efficient search of the mRNA design space.
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Salary : $125,000 - $200,000