Staff GenAI Research Scientist - Retrieval

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At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform, so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data, with technologies ranging from pre-training LLMs from scratch to augmented generation using the latest retrieval techniques. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI models should be available to all.

Job Description 

As a Staff Research Scientist on the Enterprise Agents team, you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest developments in Agent Context, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Assistants, RAG, Embeddings, and advancing the scientific frontier by creating new techniques that go beyond the state of the art. You will work together on a collaborative team of researchers and engineers with diverse backgrounds and technical training. And most importantly, you will love our customers: our goal is to make our customers successful in applying state-of-the-art LLMs and AI systems, and we encode our scientific expertise into our products to make that possible.

The Impact you will have

As a Staff Research Scientist on the AI Research Team at Databricks, You Will: 

• Define and lead independent research agendas on Information Retrieval for reusable Agent components, conducting experiments to empirically validate hypotheses and benchmark against state-of-the-art approaches.
• Drive research and technical strategy across enterprise retrieval and search, including workspace search, vector search.
• Drive algorithmic innovations for Retrieval within Large Language Models. 
• Experience with Agent Benchmarks for retrieval, text-embeddings and LLM Data Quality. 

What We Look for

• 5+ years of 
• PhD in Computer Science or related field with strong foundations in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval 
• Developing and implementing methods that extend and improve model capabilities, reliability, and safety. 
• Strong preference for candidates with first-author publications at top ML/systems conferences (EMNLP, ICLR, ACL, NeurIPs) focused on optimization or efficiency.

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and agents using their own data, with technologies ranging from post-training open source LLMs to developing advanced multi-agent architectures. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models and agents are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI should be available to all.

Job Description 

As a Sr. Research Scientist on the Scaling team, you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest developments in deep learning and advancing the scientific frontier by creating new techniques that go beyond the state of the art. You will work together on a collaborative team of researchers and engineers with diverse backgrounds and technical training. And most importantly, you will love our customers: our goal is to make our customers successful in applying state-of-the-art LLMs and AI systems, and we encode our scientific expertise into our products to make that possible.

The Impact you will have

As a Sr. Research Scientist on the AI Research Team at Databricks, You Will: 

• Define and lead independent research agendas on foundation model efficiency in model training and reinforcement learning, conducting experiments to empirically validate hypotheses and benchmark against state-of-the-art approaches
• Drive algorithmic innovations for large-scale neural network training or inference (e.g., novel optimizers, low-precision techniques, model adaptation methods)
• Optimize ML systems for distributed training, memory efficiency, and compute efficiency through hands-on implementation.

What We Look for

• MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field with strong foundations in machine learning and systems
• Proven ability to write high-quality, efficient code in Python and PyTorch for research implementation and experimentation
• Strong preference for candidates with first-author publications at top ML/systems conferences (ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, MLSys) focused on optimization or efficiency.

Tech Lead – Data Scientist

About the Role

We are looking for a Technical Lead to drive the development of Obsidian's core ontology that powers our groundbreaking unified security config analysis, AI security, and threat detection product.

• Scale this ontology as part of a team of 3-6 software engineers and data scientists to cover hundreds or thousands more enterprise application platforms. Drive automation of repeatable R&D subtasks.
• Become an expert on foundational identity, authentication, authorization, network, and data security concepts. An unhealthy dose of curiosity about the design and administration — technology, people, and process — of complex application platforms such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Workday is a must. You will love exploring rabbit holes into esoteric domain knowledge related to these topics.
• Formulate security problems as data and ML problems, constantly addressing and refining the customer outcome in collaboration with top-flight security teams from Global 1000 companies.

What We’re Looking For

• 6+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or applied research, preferably with 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
• A track record of shipping production ML or data systems at scale — ideally systems involving ontologies, knowledge graphs, entity resolution, or semantics over heterogeneous data sources.
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and modern ML/data tooling.
• Working knowledge of core security domains, or a strong ability to learn.
• Experience formulating fuzzy business or security problems as concrete ML/data problems:
• able to decompose ambiguous, ambitious problems into well-scoped subproblems and design experiments with statistical rigor.
• comfortable being scrappy and diving deep into vendor documentation, APIs, and audit logs to find the necessary data sources

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to engage credibly with technical security practitioners at large enterprises.

We are seeking a high-impact Staff Data Scientist to play a leading role on our data needs to bridge the gap between advanced research and production-grade ML systems. You will be a key technical leader and partner to our Research Scientists, driving the evolution of our AI algorithms through rigorous data science methodologies, strategic data curation, and cross-functional leadership.

Job Responsibilities:

• Vision & Cross-Functional Leadership: Engage with cross-functional teams (Product, Research, Engineering, and Process Engineering) and help guide the overarching vision for data analysis, curation, and annotation to improve our AI models. Drive the definition of algorithm and data requirements necessary to deliver on end-point objectives.
• Data Campaigns and Annotation Strategy: Introduce best practices and efficient processes to enable multiple, large-scale annotation campaigns for continuous AI product improvements. Spearhead the strategic design of data campaigns needed to advance AI algorithms.
• Advanced Data Curation & Management: Develop comprehensive data curation strategies for improvements to AI models. Partner with MLOps to architect data management systems for algorithm training and performance validation, and establish data dashboards and monitoring reports.
• Performance Evaluation and Statistical Analysis: Establish frameworks and develop tools to rigorously evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of model iterations across patient populations. Design and oversee data analyses using statistical techniques to illuminate the performance of our AI algorithms.

Required Qualifications:  

• Education: Masters or PhD Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or related degree.
• Work Experience: 7+ years (or 5+ with PhD) of proven track record in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or Image Analysis in industry. Have a wealth of experience from working on complex, real-world AI problems in medical imaging or computer vision requiring careful consideration of data needs.
• Software: Proficient in Python, including statistical and machine learning packages (e.g. scipy, sklearn, statsmodels, seaborn) with a commitment to writing clean, reproducible and scalable code. Familiarity with image and 3D processing tools like VTK and ITK, and visualization tools like 3DSlicer and MITK, a plus.
• Statistics: Understanding of standard statistical techniques and ability to apply appropriate statistical methods to a range of data structures; experience with medical imaging data a plus.
• Data Management: Experience working with data lakes, SQL/No SQL Databases, AWS Cloud Storage, Tableau dashboards.
• AI & Medical Imaging: Expertise in deep learning and machine learning models in production. Strong experience working with medical imaging data (CT and vascular imaging) is highly preferred.
• (Preferred) Proficiency in Agentic AI Tools: Experience integrating generative AI and agentic tools into daily workflows to act as a force multiplier—accelerating coding, prototyping, and complex data analysis—while demonstrating the critical judgment required to rigorously evaluate AI outputs for accuracy.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication. Detail orientated but able to describe complex topics in a manner that is digestible to a broad audience. Ability to distill complex analyses into interpretable and actionable findings.
• Commitment: Committed to the success of the team and successful completion of project - 75% confidence / 100% committed.
• Influence without Authority: Able to build trust and obtain cross-functional alignment across departments.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary compensation range is $220,000 to $280,000, bonus, and equity. #LI-IB1 #LI-Hybrid

About the Role
As a Senior Research Associate Scientist in the Protein Engineering group, you will be a crucial member of our interdisciplinary team, comprising highly creative and talented individuals with exceptional expertise in protein characterization and engineering. This group is responsible for enabling AI drug discovery efforts and optimizing lead molecules. You will work collaboratively with protein designers, biologists, and other drug discovery team members.

We’re looking for an extraordinary library builder who can design, generate and scale complex DNA assemblies for our protein engineering and display teams. This role requires extensive experience with combinatorial, designed and naive library building with the relevant microbiological and protein level expertise to express & qualify them once built. This hands-on role is best for someone who can keep NGS, protein biochemistry, and DNA assembly needs in mind when building complex libraries at speed. 

About You
You are an enthusiastic protein biochemist who takes pride in your bench execution skills. Your passion lies in display technology, drug discovery and developing novel treatments for patients. You are conscientious, detail-oriented, and organized. Collaboration comes naturally to you, and you thrive in a fast-paced environment where pushing the boundaries of what is possible is the norm.

What You'll Do and Learn

• Design and apply multiple innovative selection techniques utilizing synthetic libraries, like phage, yeast display, and mammalian display. 
• Utilize FACS sorting, plate-based screening, and NGS to identify binders.
• Setup and use automation to further rank leads for affinity and function. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot protein reagents. 
• Train and mentor junior team members, providing guidance on experimental design, data analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Maintain accurate and detailed records of experiments, protocols, and results in accordance with company standards and regulatory requirements.
• Interpret and present scientific findings at research meetings. Provide scientific input and propose follow-up experiments.
• Collaborate and communicate across diverse research teams to successfully achieve scientific goals.
• Contribute to scientific publications, patents, and presentations to disseminate research findings both internally and externally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of science or master degree in Molecular Biology, Protein Biochemistry, or related fields with 5+ years of industrial experience.
• Hands-on experience with yeast display system and library building.
• Cloning complex assemblies with multi-part golden gate, gibson, and other techniques
• Experience with DNA synthesis CROs.
• High proficiency in yeast display to protein targets, soluble and membrane.
• Proficiency in molecular and cell biology techniques, such as DNA extraction, PCR, enzymatic DNA treatments and library preparation QC for NGS..
• Mammalian tissue culture.
• Antibody engineering and discovery experience.
• Flow cytometry experience (both analytical and sorting). 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present complex scientific concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment, fostering cooperation and knowledge-sharing among team members.
• Experience using LIMS and Benchling systems.

Nice to have Skill(s)

• Experience in protein purification techniques (including affinity, ion exchange, HIC, SEC) and in chromatography hardware and software (Cytiva AKTA, Agilent HPLC).
  
  

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity.  The base pay range for this position is expected to be $110,000 - $138,000 annually; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. Xaira Therapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

About the Role
Xaira Therapeutics is seeking a lab-based Senior Scientist in Inflammation and Immunology to join our Biology & Pharmacology department. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands-on research environment, has experience working with primary human or mouse immune cells and ex vivo tissue systems, and is excited to help shape therapeutic program strategy.

In this role, you will investigate disease biology and drug mechanisms, generate actionable data, and contribute to advancing therapeutic programs through cross-functional collaboration.

What You’ll Do

• Drive preclinical programs by designing and executing in vitro and in vivo studies that explore disease biology, target validation, and lead candidate development.
• Identify knowledge gaps, ask critical mechanistic questions to guide program direction, and evaluate novel targets and therapeutic strategies.
• Dissociate human tissue biopsies into single-cell suspensions or establish human tissue slice cultures for downstream functional or phenotyping assays.
• Lead immune profiling and functional characterization using high-parameter flow cytometry (15+ colors or spectral platforms), functional assays (T cell activation, differentiation, proliferation, suppression), and molecular/cytokine profiling (MSD, Luminex, qPCR, RNA sequencing).
• Translate experimental data into actionable insights and clearly communicate findings and recommendations to cross-functional teams.

What We’re Looking For

• PhD in Immunology or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience; industry experience preferred.
• Track record of impact through publications, presentations, or applied research.
• Hands-on experience with primary human or mouse immune cells and/or ex vivo tissue systems.
• Strong expertise in flow cytometry, including high-parameter panel design, execution, and data analysis.
• Proven ability to independently plan, execute, troubleshoot, and interpret experiments.
• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
• Clear communicator who can distill complex data into actionable insights.

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity.  The base pay range for this position is expected to be $140,000 - $170,000 annually; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. Xaira Therapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

About the Role

You are an enthusiastic protein biochemist who takes pride in your bench execution skills. Your passion lies in display technology, drug discovery and developing novel treatments for patients. You are conscientious, detail-oriented, and organized. Collaboration comes naturally to you, and you thrive in a fast-paced environment where pushing the boundaries of what is possible is the norm.

Responsibilities

• Build, adapt, and automate display systems to facilitate AI antibody design. 
• Establish, develop, and/or optimize cutting edge technologies to enable data generation at scale for AI model training or evaluation
• Design and apply multiple innovative selection techniques to provide data at scale based on ML training needs. 
• Design, setup, optimize, and use automation to characterize affinity and function at the clonal level. 
• Contribute to the preparation of technical reports and presentations.
  
  

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience with protein display techniques such as yeast and/or phage display. Experience in library design, build, panning/sorting and validation. 
• Bachelor of Science or Master’s degree in Molecular Biology, Biology, Biochemistry, or related fields with 2-6 years of industrial experience.  . 
• Familiarity with antibody binding assays and automating them (ELISA, SPR, FACS).
• Proficiency in molecular and cell biology techniques, including mammalian tissue cell culture, and basic skills in molecular biology labs.
• Working knowledge of software and programming for large data set analysis.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present complex scientific concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment, fostering cooperation and knowledge-sharing among team members

Schedule Flexibility: Due to the nature of experimental workflows, this role will require availability on weekends (approximately every couple of weeks). 

Employment Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 9 Months

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity. The base pay range for this position is expected to be $45-$60 hourly; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. Xaira Therapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

About the Role

We are seeking a driven Scientist and experimentalist who combines strong hands-on molecular biology skills with a creative, critical, and builder-oriented mindset. This role is focused on assisting in the design, construction, and iteration of novel screening platforms and experimental workflows that enable biological discovery at scale.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who enjoys working in ambiguous problem spaces, thinks deeply about experimental design, and takes ownership of turning early ideas into robust, reproducible systems. You will work collaboratively with other teams, including automation, engineering, and computation, to invent new ways of generating high-quality biological data.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop novel antibody screening technologies and experimental platforms, from early proof-of-concept through scalable, robust workflows
• Design, implement, and optimize screening assays, including biochemical, molecular, and cell-based readouts
• Assist multidisciplinary platform development efforts as a biochemical expert through microbial and mammalian cell line engineering (e.g. cloning, genome editing, expression optimization)
• Apply data-driven and critical thinking approaches to troubleshoot, refine, and improve workflows, enhancing throughput, robustness, and interpretability
• Clearly document experimental workflows, present results, and contribute to shared platform standards while maintaining flexibility for rapid exploration
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners (automation, engineering, computation) to integrate biology, data, and technology into cohesive systems

Required Qualifications

• PhD in Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, or a related field with 1+ years of industry experience, or
  B.S. or M.S. with 8-10 years of relevant industry or applied research experience
• Prior work on platform, workflow, or method development, especially in exploratory or early-stage settings (see examples under Bonus Skills)
• Experience with antibody discovery and engineering workflows, including panning, enrichment, or display-based screening approaches
• Experience with assay development, optimization, and experimental troubleshooting
• Strong hands-on experience in molecular cloning and DNA manipulation
• Experience with cell-line engineering (e.g. E. coli, yeast, mammalian or related systems)
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, think critically, and drive conclusive experiments
• Strong organizational skills and attention to experimental detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with functional antibody screening or protein–protein interaction assays
• Familiarity with high-throughput or semi-automated screening systems
• Experience working with data-rich experimental systems
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, collaborative, and partially undefined problem spaces

Nice to Have

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be a plus:

• Spatial biology technologies (e.g. spatial transcriptomics, in situ or imaging-based assays)
• Single-cell technologies, including single-cell sequencing or high-content single-cell assays
• Microarray-based assays or other multiplexed screening formats
• Microfluidics, particularly for screening, assay miniaturization, or single-cell applications
• High-content imaging or phenotypic screening
• Experience studying or manipulating cell-internal signaling pathways (e.g. receptor signaling, transcriptional regulation, immune signaling, stress responses, or related pathways)
• Protein expression, secretion, or trafficking assays

Compensation: Annual

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity.  The base pay range for this position is expected to be $110,000 - $138,000 annually; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. Xaira Therapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

• Develop multimodal foundation models spanning image and molecular data
• Design approaches that unify representation learning and generative modeling
• Train large-scale models on structured, high-dimensional datasets
• Explore cross-modal alignment, prediction, and generation
• Build scalable systems for data processing, training, and evaluation
• Work in a research-driven environment with evolving problem definitions

• Experience with representation learning (self-supervised, contrastive, masked modeling, etc.)
• Experience with generative modeling (diffusion, autoregressive models, VAEs, or related approaches)
• Proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, and CI/CD (PyTorch, JAX, etc.)

• Work on multimodal learning or cross-domain representation learning
• Experience with image data, molecular / omics-like data, or both
• Familiarity with large-scale training

• Exposure to biological or scientific datasets
• Experience with paired or partially aligned multimodal data
• Comfortable working in open-ended, evolving problem spaces

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity. The base pay range for this position is expected to be $170,000 - $240,000 annually; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.

Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. Xaira Therapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Verana Health, a digital health company that delivers quality drug lifecycle and medical practice insights from an exclusive real-world data network, recently secured a $150 million Series E led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) and Novo Growth, the growth-stage investment arm of Novo Holdings. 

Existing Verana Health investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Casdin Capital, and Brook Byers also joined the round, as well as notable new investors, including the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, THVC, and Breyer Capital.

We are driven to create quality real-world data in ophthalmology, neurology, urology, and oncology to accelerate quality insights across the drug lifecycle and within medical practices. Additionally, we are driven to advance the quality of care and quality of life for patients. DRIVE defines our internal purpose and is the galvanizing force that helps ground us in a shared corporate culture. DRIVE is: Diversity, Responsibility, Integrity, Voice-of-Customer and End-Results. Click here to read more about our culture and values.

Our headquarters are located in San Francisco and we have additional offices in Knoxville, TN and New York City with employees working remotely in AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, LA, MA, MN, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, D.C. All employees are required to have permanent residency in one of these states. Candidates who are willing to relocate are also encouraged to apply. 

Candidates based in the Bay Area, New York City, and Knoxville, Tennessee will be give priority consideration. For these locations, the position will follow a hybrid work model, with 3 days per week in office and the remaining days working from home. 

*Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.*

Job Title: Quantitative Scientist

Why This Role Matters:

The Quantitative Scientist will be responsible for executing and providing oversight and guidance on the analytical, statistical and epidemiological components of Verana research projects and data quality initiatives. The primary function of this role will be to conduct, guide, and manage the analytical execution of Verana research projects . The Quantitative Scientist will collaborate cross-functionally to build research capacity and adopt quality standards across Verana's business units.  This position requires an experienced individual with knowledge of statistics, ability to develop and review code with a solid understanding of coding best practices, a strong understanding of epidemiological study designs, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  In addition, you should be able to continually unearth and present interesting trends that have clinical, research, and business importance for our customers and oncology patients at large.  You will be joining a friendly, high performing and diverse research team with backgrounds in public health, health economics, biology, and statistics.  This role will report to the Vice President, Research.

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN

• Expertise in the oncology real-world data industry, a fast-growing segment of health data
• Experience executing oncology research and analytical/statistical methods to answer key questions for patients, providers, and life science companies

WHAT TO EXPECT IN YOUR FIRST YEAR AT VERANA:

In thirty days, you will:

• Understand the full suite of Verana’s research offerings and analyses
• Understand the research team’s GitHub repo and analysis template 

In three months, you will:

• Contribute to internal and external meetings related to Verana research and analyses
• Gain expert understanding of Verana’s data model  
• Implement clinical specifications on real-world data and add to the suite of functions available for analyses

In six months, you will:

• Personally execute analytical research projects
• Contribute to the development of project collateral, research protocols, abstracts, posters and manuscripts
• Guide and mentor data scientists and analysts 

In one year, you will:

• Lead the analytical execution of Verana’s research projects for life science, provider, and regulatory partners 
• Scope projects to determine feasibility, estimated costs, and expected timelines
• Provide guidance to Verana’s client partners in the use of Verana’s data model and analytical/statistical methodologies 

HOW YOU WILL IMPACT VERANA

• Lead the design and development of Verana research studies from a statistical and analytical perspective
• Contribute to the development of protocols and statistical analysis plans 
• Develop code and produce results as defined in protocols and statistical analysis plans
• Collaborate with physicians, statisticians, data scientists, business leaders, and others within and outside Verana to conduct research projects including observational studies, pharmacoeconomic analyses, and other relevant study types
• In partnership with the Research Team, communicate studies in progress and demonstrate results to key stakeholders through high quality abstracts, posters, and publications
• Manage and mentor a team of data analysts and data scientists, including reviewing code and analytical output
• Contribute to the evolution of Verana’s quality assurance framework, including identifying data quality issues during analysis
• Maintain current and in-depth understanding of real-world data analytical methodologies, along with the ability to lead and mentor internal team members in successfully executing them

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE

• Masters degree in computer science, statistics, applied math, econometrics, MPH, or similar quantitative field
• 3+ years of relevant research experience in the field of oncology (post-graduation)
• Experience working with real-world data sourced from electronic health records
• Experience analyzing claims data 
• Advanced knowledge of SQL, R programming, and version control (git)
• Deep understanding and experience with descriptive statistics, logistic and multivariate regression analysis, power calculations, propensity score analysis, and survival analysis
• Significant experience developing protocol documents, statistical analysis plans (SAPs), and manuscript tables and figures
• Evidences well-developed conceptual and integrative thinking with ability to access internal and external resources as needed 
• Project implementation and execution, including engagement with key stakeholders, with a high degree of autonomy
• Mentors junior analysts in HEOR and statistical analysis methodologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational and time management skills 
• Works well independently, as a team member, and as a team leader 
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience implementing data science methodologies
• Understanding of data quality metrics and/or quality management systems

Benefits:

• We provide 100% health, vision, and dental coverage for employees 
• 401K Match
• Flexible vacation plans 
• $700 learning and wellness annual stipend 
• Headspace meditation app access

Final note:

You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply for this position. Here at Verana, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

Caution to Job Applicants: Be vigilant against potential scams. Verana Health will never ask for payment or personal information upfront. Verify company details, cross-check job offers, and trust your instincts. Any legitimate job offer will be received by a Verana Health email account (not via gmail, text or other means) Report suspicious activities to protect yourself and others in the job-seeking community.

#LI-REMOTE

About the Role

The impact you'll be contributing to Moloco:
The Research Science (RS) team focuses on the operation and optimization of our software systems working closely with infrastructure engineering teams, machine learning teams and data science teams. As an Applied Scientist, you will participate as an individual contributor on research projects alongside other research scientists within the context of a group of cross functional collaborators working in complex multi-causal environments to identify inefficiencies, analyze potential options, and propose solutions. Your work will contribute to driving performance improvements and cost reductions, debugging and investigating production issues, and stabilizing our core system as you develop a deep end-to-end understanding of the system.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

• Work with other applied scientists on projects to evaluate the health of both internal and external components to make sure the Moloco system is running safely and efficiently.  
• Learn from your senior peers how to identify new areas to improve our infrastructure and machine learning components by understanding internal system changes, external changes, and data changes, and identify and suggest interesting/useful next steps for your projects.
• Complete task as part of larger projects to complete deep unbiased analyses.  
• Implement, and evaluate new algorithms and features in collaboration with senior Applied Scientists, Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers.

Basic Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field, or industry experience in optimization of market prices or ML systems
• At least 4 years of engineering or applied science experience
• Proficient verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to contribute to the creation of presentations and reports
• Quick understanding of new information and the demonstrated ability to learn new technical skills across engineering, machine learning, and data science 
• Track record of building positive relationships with collaborators and stakeholders and working effectively with cross-functional partners in a global company

The impact you'll be contributing to Moloco:
Product Analytics Data Science (PDS) is the data science team that works closely with the R&D team on our core Ads product. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will drive performance improvement in our product through a deep understanding of the ads ecosystem (supply, demand, bidding, fraud detection) and customer needs, and provide the data driven insight and scientific solutions.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

Our team is responsible for:

• Conducting deep-dive analysis to influence R&D decisions and strategies: analyzing large datasets with queries and scripts, extracting valuable signals out of noise, and producing actionable insights into how we could improve Moloco’s complex ML and bidding system to drive outcomes for customers. 
• Evaluating ads integrity: understanding changes and drivers of our complex systems, diagnosing fraud claims and mitigating fraud escalations through a set of input/output metrics of each component.
• Building the right metrics to measure campaign health: improving campaign performance monitoring by establishing the right metric framework, and understanding cause-and-effect relationships across drivers

Basic Qualifications

• Distinctive problem-solving skills, ability to articulate product questions, pulling data from large datasets and using statistics to arrive at a recommendation; ability to manage multiple projects at the same time. 
• Proven ability to own complex projects end-to-end, even when you have to get creative: you do more than completing delegated tasks and always pay attention to detail to translate analysis results into business recommendations. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to present information and analysis results effectively.
• Statistics: strong knowledge and experience in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and various statistical analysis techniques such as regression or linear models.
• Programming: experience with Python, R or other scripting language, and database language (e.g. SQL) or data manipulation (e.g. Pandas, Dplyr).
• Ability to build positive relationships within the DS team and with our stakeholders, and work effectively with cross-functional partners in a global company.
• 6+ years of work experience (industry or postgraduate) in data science related fields or an advanced degree such as Master’s or PhD in a quantitative discipline with 4+ years of experience.

Bachelor’s, Master’s and/or PhD in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering).

The impact you'll be contributing to Moloco:
Product Analytics Data Science (PDS) is the data science team that works closely with the R&D team on our core Ads product. As a Data Scientist II, you will drive performance improvement in our product through a deep understanding of the ads ecosystem (supply, demand, bidding, ML) and customer needs, and provide the data driven insight and scientific solutions.

Here’s what you’ll be working on:

Our team is responsible for:

• Conducting deep-dive analysis to influence R&D decisions and strategies: analyzing large datasets with queries and scripts, extracting valuable signals out of noise, and producing actionable insights into how we could improve Moloco’s complex ML and bidding system to drive outcomes for customers. 
• Building the right metrics to measure campaign health: improving campaign performance monitoring by establishing the right metric framework, and understanding cause-and-effect relationships across drivers
• Evaluating ads system health: understanding changes and drivers of our complex systems, and diagnosing issues through a set of input/output metrics of each component.

Basic Qualifications

• Distinctive problem-solving skills, ability to articulate product questions, pulling data from large datasets and using statistics to arrive at a recommendation; ability to manage multiple projects at the same time. 
• Proven ability to own complex projects end-to-end, even when you have to get creative: you do more than completing delegated tasks and always pay attention to detail to translate analysis results into business recommendations. 
• Provide strategic thought partnership to cross-functional teams, leveraging data-driven insights to influence and guide product decisions, roadmap prioritization, and overall business strategy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to present information and analysis results effectively.
• Statistics: strong knowledge and experience in experimental design, hypothesis testing, and various statistical analysis techniques such as regression or linear models.
• Programming: experience with Python, R or other scripting language, and database language (e.g. SQL) or data manipulation (e.g. Pandas, Dplyr).
• Ability to build positive relationships within the DS team and with Product Management, Engineering stakeholders ;work effectively with cross-functional partners in a global company.
• 3+ years of work experience (industry or postgraduate) in data science related fields or an advanced degree such as Master’s or PhD in a quantitative discipline with 4+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s and/or PhD in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Operations Research, Bioinformatics, Economics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering).

OVERVIEW

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our team to lead the development of analytics and growth strategies across our entire business. The Senior Data Scientist will be responsible for managing and analyzing large data sets, developing statistical models and machine learning algorithms, and providing insights to drive business growth for our retail operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES  

• Support the development of e-commerce and retail analytics and growth strategies, including market research, customer segmentation, and predictive modeling.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, product, and engineering to develop data-driven solutions that enhance customer experience and drive business growth.
• Develop statistical models and machine learning algorithms to analyze large data sets and identify opportunities to improve business performance.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports that visualize data insights and performance metrics for executive leadership.
• Communicate complex data insights and models to non-technical stakeholders and translate findings into actionable recommendations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a quantitative field, such as mathematics, statistics, or computer science
• PhD, or M.S. degree in a quantitative discipline such as CS, Statistics, ML, Physics, Economics, or Mathematics preferred
• 5+ years of experience in data science, including experience in DTC, e-commerce, or retail analytics
• Strong proficiency in statistical modeling and machine learning algorithms, such as regression analysis, clustering, and decision trees
• Experience with programming languages such as Python or R and SQL Jupyter, & ML libraries
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong leadership and/or management skills, with experience managing and mentoring a team of data scientists
• Proficiency in productionizing algorithms, from data ingest to model management, using AWS and/or Azure
• Self-starter: able to drive projects and take technical leadership of projects
• Experience in start-ups or other fast-paced environments preferred
• Experience and excitement partnering with Data Analytics and Data Engineering
• Currently based in the greater LA area or open to relocation and consent to working onsite 4 days a week

The base salary range for this position is $160,000-$200,000 per year which represents the current range for the base salary for this exempt position. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. As such, on occasion and when applicable, there is the possibility that the final, agreed-upon base salary may be outside of the upper end of the range. Please also note the range listed is just one component of the company’s total rewards package for exempt employees. Other rewards may include performance bonuses, long term incentives, a PTO policy, and many other progressive benefits.

We’re looking for a hands-on engineering manager to lead Profluent’s Lab Informatics Platform team. This team builds the systems scientists use to design experiments, track samples, capture assay data, integrate with Benchling and lab automation, and make experimental data usable for analysis and machine learning.

The ideal candidate is both an experienced people manager and a strong technical lead. You’ll formally manage and mentor a small team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, data modeling, database design, and technical execution. You’ll work closely with wet-lab scientists, automation engineers, data scientists, and ML experts to build practical, scientist-facing tools that make complex experimental workflows scalable, traceable, and actionable.

Responsibilities 

• Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team focused on lab informatics systems, scientific data infrastructure, and scientist-facing applications
• Architect and deliver the roadmap for systems that support sample tracking, assay data capture, Benchling integration, lab automation, experimental metadata, and analysis workflows
• Design robust data models for protein engineering and gene editing experiments, including constructs, samples, reagents, cell systems, assay results, metadata, and experimental lineage across mammalian and bacterial workflows
• Partner closely with scientists to translate complex laboratory requirements into scalable software solutions that accelerate Profluent’s design-build-test-learn cycle
• Build and maintain backend systems, APIs, databases, data pipelines, and web applications using technologies such as Python, Django, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, GCP, and modern development workflows
• Establish strong engineering practices across architecture, code review, testing, CI/CD, documentation, and agile delivery

Qualifications 

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years managing or leading engineers
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Strong technical leadership skills, with a track record of architecting and delivering production-quality software systems
• Proficiency with Python, backend development, databases, APIs, and modern software engineering workflows
• Experience building lab informatics systems, scientific data platforms, LIMS/ELN integrations, research software, or scientist-facing applications
• Experience with data modeling and database design for complex scientific, operational, or experimental workflows
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with scientists and translate ambiguous laboratory workflows into reliable software systems

Preferences (but not required)

• Experience with Benchling, lab automation, instrument data ingestion, sample tracking, or high-throughput experimental data
• Experience with data generated from mammalian or bacterial cell systems, gene editing, protein engineering, or related biological workflows
• Frontend web development experience and interest in building intuitive scientist-facing user interfaces

What We Offer

• High-growth opportunity with meaningful impact on the future of protein design
• Competitive compensation package with equity participation
• 401(k) with a strong employer match
• Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/vision insurance
• Generous PTO policy and commitment to work-life balance
• Professional development opportunities in a cutting-edge field at the intersection of AI and biology

Profluent Bio, Inc is an equal opportunity employer promoting diversity and inclusion in the workspace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding), genetic information, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave, or any other basis protected by law.

Work Authorization Requirement

Applicants must have ongoing work authorization in the United States that does not require employer sponsorship. Sponsorship will not be provided now or at any time in the future for this position.

Employment Eligibility Verification

Legal authorization to work in the United States is required. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired must verify their identity and work eligibility and complete the required employment verification form upon hire.

Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure

P-1215

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and agents using their own data, with technologies ranging from post-training open source LLMs to developing advanced multi-agent architectures. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models and agents are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI should be available to all.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, AI Research Infrastructure, you will be developing and running the research stack that powers Databricks AI Research. You will design and build services that schedule, orchestrate, and observe large‑scale training and inference experiment workloads across thousands of GPUs, improve our dev tooling and ensure that researchers can iterate quickly without sacrificing reliability, efficiency, or security.

You’ll partner closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and platform teams to turn experimental workloads into robust, repeatable pipelines, and to push the limits of what our infrastructure can support.

The Impact you will have

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Research Infra Team at Databricks, you will: 

• Design and implement infrastructure that supports large‑scale experiments, data processing, and model training (e.g., HPC clusters, GPU fleets, or cloud‑based systems)
• Enable researchers to go from idea to large‑scale experiment in minutes, not days, by building powerful abstractions for job submission, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Create tooling that improves research developer productivity, such as experiment management systems, CI/testing infrastructure for research code, and workflows that reduce iteration time.
• Influence the long‑term roadmap for research computation, shaping how Databricks AI Research train, evaluate, and ship models to customers.
• Serve as a technical mentor and force multiplier for other engineers working on compute, infra, and AI systems.

What We Look for

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial time working on large‑scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• Have deep experience with building and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or large‑scale backend services, ideally involving GPUs, clusters, or major cloud providers.
• Are proficient in one or more systems programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust, Go, Java, Scala) and can design, implement, and debug complex services.
• Have built or significantly contributed to cluster schedulers, resource managers, or large‑scale job orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, custom internal systems).
• Understand modern ML training and inference workflows (e.g., distributed training, model parallelism, fine‑tuning, evaluation), even if you’re not primarily a research scientist.
• Can move fast and be pragmatic in getting things done, while caring about operational excellence. Have driven complex systems from prototype to stable, well‑owned services.
• Communicate clearly with both researchers and engineers, and enjoy translating between research needs and infra realities.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Natera is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Clinical Scientist to support the development and execution of our innovative Oncology programs.

The Director, Clinical Science will ensure the successful execution of clinical development programs and deliverables in partnership across the organization, with external vendors, and with external academicians and collaboration partners. The Director, Clinical Science will be accountable to jointly develop clinical program strategy and work collaboratively together with other functional representatives to assure that activities are executed within expected scope, compliance, budget, and timelines. Specifically, the candidate will work closely with colleagues cross functionally in clinical development, clinical operations, data management safety/pharmacovigilance, regulatory, biostatistics, translational medicine, and program leadership.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop study concepts, including study design, schedule of assessments, objectives/endpoints, and eligibility criteria  
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop Protocol and ICF documents / amendments and present these to governance committee and early clinical development team meetings as required
• Provide protocol training and contribute to CRF design
• Ensure study manuals align with protocol and engage investigators in study design
• Seek input from key investigators on study design and methodology to ensure alignment with research objectives, and actively participate in pre-site selection discussions, site initiation visits, and investigator meetings to support successful study execution
• Contribute to and oversee real-time clinical data reviews (including oversight of CROs when applicable)
• Serve as a clinical science representative on internal and external meetings 
• Develop clinical project execution timelines and provide status updates to senior management to ensure the timely delivery of program milestones
• in collaboration with Data Management will develop Data Review Plan, and monitor clinical data for specific trends, ensure CRF design adequately supports data collection in alignment with the protocol in collaboration with Data Management/Programming
• Support meetings (advisory boards, etc) and deliver presentations
• Drive clinical research plans, including company and investigator-initiated studies
• Effectively interact with senior members in other functional areas for strategic planning to ensure optimized clinical development in accordance with corporate objectives 
• Build relationships with KOLs, consortiums, and sites
• Provide scientific input into design & implementation of clinical trial(s), their delivery, clinical data review and data cleaning, interpretation of results, reporting successfully on time, and activities required for registration of the product 
• As appropriate, participates in ongoing enhancements/development of team processes, structures, systems, tools, and other resources; As appropriate, coaches and guides less experienced Clinical Scientists
• Manage one or more direct reports including being responsible for hiring, training, developing, and retaining talent on staff, as needed
• As appropriate, participates in competitive intelligence and/or other market/industry assessment activities and projects
• Maintains scientific and clinical knowledge in the specific therapeutic and disease area(s) of assignment
• Ensure HIPAA/PHI compliance and maintain training requirements
• Perform other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences (MD, PhD, Pharm D, MS, RN or similar scientific field) preferred
• 10+ years of pharma/biotech industry experience in clinical development in oncology clinical trials
• Deep understanding and preferably experience in oncology molecular diagnostics, oncology companion diagnostics or early cancer detection 
• Experience in data review, data cleaning, managing and interpreting clinical trials results as well in writing clinical trial protocols
• Possesses sound foundational knowledge of FDA and other major country regulations and detailed knowledge of Good Clinical Practice other regulations governing clinical research
• Experience with managing direct reports, ensuring that roles are performed in accordance with job descriptions and that training is conducted and maintained appropriately

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Problem-solving skills and a fast learner
• Strong communication (oral and written) and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Analytical and creative thinking
• Familiarity with Google and Microsoft suites
• Desire to work in a dynamic environment
• "Hands-on" leadership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to apply business knowledge, exercise judgment, and escalate issues appropriately
• Strong project management, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Adaptability, initiative, and team-building skills
• Demonstrated success in working in a cross-functional environment
• Successful and superior influencing skills across all levels of the organization and external collaborators
• Conflict resolution and follow-through skills
• Results and goal-oriented
• Strategic and flexible thinking

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Office or home office setting with internet access
• Ability to use a computer, phone, and read materials 
• Flexibility to work with colleagues in a global setting
• Able to engage in work-related travel up to 25%

POSITION SUMMARY:

Natera is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Clinical Scientist to support the development and execution of our innovative Oncology programs.

The Associate Director, Clinical Science will ensure the successful execution of clinical development programs and deliverables in partnership across the organization, with external vendors, and with external academicians and collaboration partners. The Associate Director, Clinical Science will be accountable to jointly develop clinical program strategy and work collaboratively together with other functional representatives to assure that activities are executed within expected scope, compliance, budget, and timelines. Specifically, the candidate will work closely with colleagues cross functionally in clinical development, clinical operations, data management safety/pharmacovigilance, regulatory, biostatistics, translational medicine, and program leadership.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop study concepts, including study design, schedule of assessments, objectives/endpoints, and eligibility criteria  
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop Protocol and ICF documents / amendments and present these to governance committee and early clinical development team meetings as required
• Provide protocol training and contribute to CRF design
• Ensure study manuals align with protocol and engage investigators in study design
• Seek input from key investigators on study design and methodology to ensure alignment with research objectives, and actively participate in pre-site selection discussions, site initiation visits, and investigator meetings to support successful study execution
• Contribute to and oversee real-time clinical data reviews (including oversight of CROs when applicable)
• Serve as a clinical science representative on internal and external meetings 
• Develop clinical project execution timelines and provide status updates to senior management to ensure the timely delivery of program milestones
• in collaboration with Data Management will develop Data Review Plan, and monitor clinical data for specific trends, ensure CRF design adequately supports data collection in alignment with the protocol in collaboration with Data Management/Programming
• Support meetings (advisory boards, etc) and deliver presentations
• Drive clinical research plans, including company and investigator-initiated studies
• Effectively interact with senior members in other functional areas for strategic planning to ensure optimized clinical development in accordance with corporate objectives 
• Build relationships with KOLs, consortiums, and sites
• Provide scientific input into design & implementation of clinical trial(s), their delivery, clinical data review and data cleaning, interpretation of results, reporting successfully on time, and activities required for registration of the product 
• As appropriate, participates in ongoing enhancements/development of team processes, structures, systems, tools, and other resources; As appropriate, coaches and guides less experienced Clinical Scientists
• Manage one or more direct reports including being responsible for hiring, training, developing, and retaining talent on staff, as needed
• As appropriate, participates in competitive intelligence and/or other market/industry assessment activities and projects
• Maintains scientific and clinical knowledge in the specific therapeutic and disease area(s) of assignment
• Ensure HIPAA/PHI compliance and maintain training requirements
• Perform other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences (MD, PhD, Pharm D, MS, RN or similar scientific field) preferred
• 8+ years pharma/biotech industry experience in clinical development in oncology clinical trials
• Deep understanding and preferably experience in oncology molecular diagnostics, oncology companion diagnostics or early cancer detection 
• Experience in data review, data cleaning, managing and interpreting clinical trials results as well in writing clinical trial protocols
• Possesses sound foundational knowledge of FDA and other major country regulations and detailed knowledge of Good Clinical Practice other regulations governing clinical research
• Experience with managing direct reports, ensuring that roles are performed in accordance with job descriptions and that training is conducted and maintained appropriately

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Problem-solving skills and a fast learner
• Strong communication (oral and written) and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Analytical and creative thinking
• Familiarity with Google and Microsoft suites
• Desire to work in a dynamic environment
• "Hands-on" leadership and a strong work ethic
• Ability to apply business knowledge, exercise judgment, and escalate issues appropriately
• Strong project management, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Adaptability, initiative, and team-building skills
• Demonstrated success in working in a cross-functional environment
• Successful and superior influencing skills across all levels of the organization and external collaborators
• Conflict resolution and follow-through skills
• Results and goal-oriented
• Strategic and flexible thinking

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Office or home office setting with internet access
• Ability to use a computer, phone, and read materials 
• Flexibility to work with colleagues in a global setting
• Able to engage in work-related travel up to 25%

Summary:

The Development organization is comprised of four Process teams: Protein, Polysaccharide, Conjugate Drug Substance (Conjugation), and Drug Product. These Process Development teams are supported by Analytical Development and Formulation Development teams. Vaxcyte is looking for a Senior Associate Scientist (contract) with experience in microbial fermentation and upstream processing to join the Upstream Polysaccharide Process Development team. The candidate will be responsible for collaboration on experimental design and execution of experiments to further develop and optimize upstream processes for polysaccharide manufacturing using microorganisms. The successful candidate will have practical laboratory experience related to microbial fermentation processes and eager to utilize and learn new laboratory skills. The role will require >50% time in the lab and this person will be able to independently detail experimental procedures/results in written and presentation formats. The successful candidate may interface closely with the cross-functional team, write detailed technical reports, present experimental results internally, and may potentially interface with external CMO partners.

Essential Functions:

• Support in study design, execute, and analyze experiments for upstream polysaccharide for bacterial fermentation (BSL2) and vaccine production processes.
• Execute experiments to develop the upstream process parameters (e.g., media, feed, pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, agitation, etc.) and to enhance product yield, quality, and consistency.
• Perform microbiology related work including plating, colony selection, Gram staining and cell enumeration on microscope.
• Perform fermentation vessel assembly and script writing for process automation and execute fermentation experiment in shake-flask and lab scale bioreactors.
• Prepare media and buffer as needed for experiments.
• Operate and maintain instrumentation for bacterial fermentation and primary recovery (centrifugation, filtration, etc.) of bacterial polysaccharides utilizing aseptic techniques.
• Support analytical method execution including optical density, residual metabolites and polysaccharide concentration and other relevant analytical techniques.
• Assist in executing process development studies.
• Keep accurate and current records of research and/or project related activities in laboratory notebooks and Electronic Lab Notebook.
• Prepare and review protocol, technical reports, SOPs, and batch records.
• Present and communicate scientific data and results to internal stakeholders.
• Be an outstanding teammate and collaborate effectively with cross functional team members.
• and collaborate effectively with downstream, analytical, and manufacturing teams within Polysaccharide Development and Manufacturing team to ensure seamless technology transfer and process integration.

Requirements: 

• MSc in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnology, or similar degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience, or BSc with a minimum of 5 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience in handling microorganisms with proper aseptic techniques to perform upstream processing related work in flasks/bioreactors.
• Hands-on experience and theoretical understanding of key processing operations such as microbial culture, fermentation process, microbial media, and process optimization and relevant analytical technologies; experience with depth filtration, continuous centrifugation is a plus.
• Develop and optimize scripts for instrumentation, including Ambr® systems, to enhance efficiency and automate processes, leveraging programming languages such as Python or R is a plus.
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DoE) principles and DoE software.
• Process characterization experience is a plus.
• Cell banking expertise, colony selection and genetic analysis of recombinant strains is a plus.
• Proficiency with computer programs such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio and JMP.
• Working knowledge of GMP requirements.
• Proven ability to succeed in a cross-functional team environment, effectively managing multiple projects and contributing to team outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

Summary:

Vaxcyte is looking for a Scientist-II, Conjugation Development. The candidate’s primary responsibility will be to lead and execute experimental activities that support company’s pneumococcal conjugate vaccine program with a focus on developing a deeper understanding of the conjugation process. In parallel, the candidate will work on conjugation process development for Vaxcyte’s pipeline programs contributing to process optimization, scalability, and technical readiness for future clinical manufacturing. Specifically, this will include preparation, purification, and analytical characterization of chemically modified polysaccharides and polysaccharide-protein conjugates. The ideal candidate will have significant laboratory experience and an excellent understanding of analytical chemistry principles. The successful candidate will be expected to design, execute, and troubleshoot experiments with minimal guidance. The candidate will also contribute when needed to a range of related areas such as analytical development and stability studies. Responsibilities will additionally include record management, data presentation at group meetings, authorship of laboratory protocols and development reports, communication with external organizations during tech transfer, and assumption of a leadership role in collaborative studies with other members of the conjugation group.

Essential Functions:

• Optimize and troubleshoot multi-step syntheses of protein-polysaccharide conjugates.
• Purify polysaccharides and conjugates using a variety of methods including dialysis, size-exclusion chromatography, and tangential flow filtration (TFF)
• Analyze polysaccharides and conjugates with a variety of analytical methods. Develop new laboratory workflows and analyses beyond established procedures when appropriate.
• Advise team members on experimental design, interpretation of results, and troubleshooting.
• Model and train team members on best practices for adherence to protocols and data management.
• Serve as a subject matter expert during tech transfer of conjugation processes to contract manufacturing organizations.
• Maintain highly organized records to enable optimization and assessment of reproducibility.
• Attend team meetings ready to provide updates on conjugation development progress.

Requirements: 

• PhD in chemistry, biochemistry, or related field with minimum 2 years of industry experience, or combination of industry and postdoctoral research; MS with minimum 7 years industry experience, or BS with minimum 10 years of experience industry.
• Strong biochemistry and organic chemistry knowledge base underpinning several years’ experience preparing bioconjugates.
• Proficiency with small- and large-scale techniques for purification of bioconjugates, including tangential flow filtration.
• Proficiency in a variety of techniques for bioconjugate analysis such as colorimetric assays, HPLC, and SEC-MALS.
• Sufficient knowledge of analytical principles to develop fit-for-purpose analytical methods as needed and provide cross-functional feedback on draft analytical methods.
• Experience with Design of Experiments is desirable.
• Experience with chemical modification of polysaccharides is desirable.
• Experience implementing and/or using electronic notebooks is desirable.
• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written formats.
• Self-starter; ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment and collaborate effectively with other team members.
• Enthusiasm to learn the new skills and techniques necessary to tackle problems outside of current area of expertise.
• This is lab based role that requires an onsite presence. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

THE DAY-TO-DAY

• Lead and Define AI Strategy – Set the vision for applied ML research and AI-driven decision-making across Viant’s products and services.
• Drive High-Impact Research – Conduct advanced research in NLP, RL, LLMs, and deep learning, publishing in top-tier conferences while applying findings to real-world production systems.
• Architect and Deploy ML at Scale – Develop, optimize, and deploy high-throughput, low-latency ML models, collaborating with engineers to bring solutions into production.
• Innovate in Generative AI & Causal ML – Explore novel AI techniques, such as LLMs, reinforcement learning, and causal inference, to enhance targeting, personalization, and attribution models.
• Experimentation and Validation – Design, run, and analyze A/B experiments to test ML-driven strategies, ensuring data-driven decision-making.
• Mentor and Influence – Provide technical leadership for a team of applied scientists and ML engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.

MUST HAVE

• Experience: 4+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning models at scale.
• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex, high-ambiguity ML projects from research to production.
• Academic & Industry Recognition: Masters + At least two peer-reviewed publications in deep learning, NLP, or a related AI domain or a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Deep Expertise in ML & AI: Strong foundation in deep learning, NLP, generative AI, and causal inference.
• Programming & Frameworks: Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, Llama Index).
• Scalability & Cloud: Experience with distributed computing, cloud ML platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and real-time AI inference.

GREAT TO HAVE

• Industry Impact: Publications at top-tier ML/NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI).
• Ad Tech Expertise: Experience in digital advertising, real-time bidding, or audience modeling.
• Generative AI Applications: Hands-on experience with LLMs and multimodal AI applications.
• Optimization & Personalization: Strong background in reinforcement learning, dynamic pricing, or recommendation systems.

LIFE AT VIANT

Investing in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more. 

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Principal Research Scientist – AI Scaling & Optimization

P-1227

About Databricks AI

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development, by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform. The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data; from pre-training LLMs from scratch to state-of-the-art retrieval-augmented generation by producing novel science and putting it into production.

We believe a company’s AI models are a core part of their IP, and that high‑quality AI models should be available to all.

About the Scaling Research Team

The Databricks AI Scaling team focuses on pushing the boundaries of large language model (LLM) training and inference efficiency beyond what is required to support existing models. The team explores novel avenues for scaling and efficiency improvements across algorithms, systems, and infrastructure, requiring researchers who can both drive independent research agendas and dive deep into low‑level implementation details with engineering partners.

Role Summary

As a Principal Research Scientist – Scaling, you will lead a team of world‑class researchers and engineers to advance the state of the art in large‑scale machine learning, focusing on post-training, RL and inference efficiency, optimization, and scaling. You will define and execute a research roadmap that advances the Databricks AI platform and delivers tangible improvements to how customers train, serve, and adapt LLMs at scale, working closely with product, data, and engineering leaders to bring cutting‑edge methods into production.

The Impact You Will Have

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary research team focused on foundational and applied AI problems, with a particular emphasis on LLM scaling, efficiency, and systems performance.
• Define the scaling research roadmap in alignment with Databricks’ strategic objectives, prioritizing advances in foundation model efficiency and large‑scale training and inference.
• Drive algorithmic innovations for large‑scale neural network training and inference, including novel optimizers, low‑precision techniques, and model adaptation methods, and guide your team in rigorous empirical validation against state‑of‑the‑art approaches.
• Optimize end‑to‑end ML systems for distributed training and RL, memory efficiency, and compute efficiency through close collaboration with core systems and platform teams, ensuring that research ideas translate into performant, reliable infrastructure.
• Partner with product and engineering to translate research breakthroughs, especially around scaling and efficiency, into customer‑impacting capabilities in the Databricks AI platform.
• Foster a culture of scientific excellence and openness, including high‑quality research practices, reproducible experimentation, and effective internal knowledge sharing across Databricks AI.
• Represent Databricks AI research externally through top‑tier publications, conference talks, and collaborations with academia and the open‑source community, with a focus on optimization and efficiency for large‑scale models.
• Mentor and develop talent, providing both technical guidance (research agendas, experimentation, implementation) and career development support for research scientists and engineers.

What You Will Do

• Define and lead independent research programs on foundation model efficiency, covering topics such as optimizer design, low‑precision training/inference, scalable model architectures, and efficient adaptation methods.
• Oversee the design and execution of large‑scale experiments, including benchmarking against state‑of‑the‑art methods and evaluating trade‑offs in quality, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Work hands‑on with your team on high‑quality, efficient code in Python and PyTorch for research implementation, rapid prototyping, and integration with Databricks’ production systems.
• Collaborate with distributed systems and infra teams to push the limits of distributed training, parallelism strategies, memory management, and hardware utilization for LLMs and other large models.
• Establish metrics, evaluation protocols, and best practices for scaling‑focused research (e.g., training efficiency, inference cost, energy usage) and drive their adoption across Databricks AI.
• Champion responsible and robust deployment of scaling innovations, ensuring that model behavior, reliability, and safety remain first‑class considerations.

What We Look For

• Proven ability to lead a research team to develop novel techniques for foundation model efficiency and related topics, with a strong track record of industry impact. 
• Deep expertise in at least one of: generative AI, LLMs, distributed ML systems, model optimization, or responsible AI, with a strong emphasis on scaling and efficiency for large‑scale neural networks.
• Hands on leadership - strong programming skills and demonstrated ability to write high‑quality, efficient code in Python and PyTorch for research implementation and experimentation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate research innovation into scalable product capabilities in partnership with product and engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing cross‑functional roadmaps and aligning research with business impact.

Nice to Have

• Prior work at the intersection of systems and ML, such as distributed training frameworks, compiler and kernel optimization for deep learning workloads, or memory‑/compute‑efficient model design.
• Strong industry and academic network in large‑scale ML, with ongoing collaborations or service (e.g., PC/area chair) at top conferences in ML and systems.
• A strong record of research impact—such as first‑author publications at top ML/systems conferences (e.g., ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, MLSys), influential open‑source contributions, or widely used deployed systems—especially in optimization or efficiency.

What You’ll Do 

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms, concentrating on Large Language Models (LLMs), automated speech recognition (transcription), and unified multimodal architectures. 
• Iterate on AI model development, starting from the data needed for training, architecture, input/output representations, evaluation, and deployment for complex sequence-to-sequence and multimodal tasks. 
• Collaborate with other research engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions from academic literature in natural language processing and speech. 
• Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior. 
• Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research and development. 
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner. 
• Stay current with the latest developments in Generative AI and Speech/Language Models and identify relevant innovations. 
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems. 

Minimum Education Requirement: Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Informatics.  

Minimum Experience Requirements: AI/ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Research Scientist, AI Research Engineer or related job title in which 3 years of experience with developing and supporting production machine learning systems, including model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retraining, using modern observability and experimentation tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Statsig); building ML and deep learning models using Python and PyTorch, including NLP tools (e.g., Huggingface, NLTK, spaCy, transformer-based models); with largescale data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks); and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into ML solutions PLUS 1 year of experience developing computer vision or multimodal ML systems (e.g., OpenCV, YOLO, vision transformers) were gained.  

Alternate Education Requirement: PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Informatics. 

Alternate Experience Requirements: AI/ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Research Scientist, AI Research Engineer or related job title in which 2 years of experience with developing and supporting production machine learning systems, including model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retraining, using modern observability and experimentation tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Statsig); building ML and deep learning models using Python and PyTorch, including NLP tools (e.g., Huggingface, NLTK, spaCy, transformer-based models); with largescale data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks); and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into ML solutions PLUS 1 year of experience developing computer vision or multimodal ML systems (e.g., OpenCV, YOLO, vision transformers) were gained.

Please apply online at: https://www.archer.com/careers. Must put job code SJ2026YM on resume/CV and cover letter. 

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. For this position we are offering $240,000 to $252,000 per year.

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Staff Software Engineer - AI Research Infrastructure

P-1215

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.

The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and agents using their own data, with technologies ranging from post-training open source LLMs to developing advanced multi-agent architectures. Databricks AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Databricks AI is committed to the belief that a company’s AI models and agents are just as valuable as any other core IP, and that high-quality AI should be available to all.

Job Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, AI Research Infrastructure, you will be developing and running the research stack that powers Databricks AI Research. You will design and build services that schedule, orchestrate, and observe large‑scale training and inference experiment workloads across thousands of GPUs, improve our dev tooling and ensure that researchers can iterate quickly without sacrificing reliability, efficiency, or security.

You’ll partner closely with research scientists, ML engineers, and platform teams to turn experimental workloads into robust, repeatable pipelines, and to push the limits of what our infrastructure can support.

The Impact you will have

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Research Infra Team at Databricks, you will: 

• Design and implement infrastructure that supports large‑scale experiments, data processing, and model training (e.g., HPC clusters, GPU fleets, or cloud‑based systems)
• Enable researchers to go from idea to large‑scale experiment in minutes, not days, by building powerful abstractions for job submission, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Create tooling that improves research developer productivity, such as experiment management systems, CI/testing infrastructure for research code, and workflows that reduce iteration time.
• Influence the long‑term roadmap for research computation, shaping how Databricks AI Research train, evaluate, and ship models to customers.
• Serve as a technical mentor and force multiplier for other engineers working on compute, infra, and AI systems.

What We Look for

• BS/MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial time working on large‑scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• Have deep experience with building and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or large‑scale backend services, ideally involving GPUs, clusters, or major cloud providers.
• Are proficient in one or more systems programming languages (e.g., C++, Rust, Go, Java, Scala) and can design, implement, and debug complex services.
• Have built or significantly contributed to cluster schedulers, resource managers, or large‑scale job orchestration systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, custom internal systems).
• Understand modern ML training and inference workflows (e.g., distributed training, model parallelism, fine‑tuning, evaluation), even if you’re not primarily a research scientist.
• Can move fast and be pragmatic in getting things done, while caring about operational excellence. Have driven complex systems from prototype to stable, well‑owned services.
• Communicate clearly with both researchers and engineers, and enjoy translating between research needs and infra realities.

About the Team: 

The Interplanetary Sciences Program was established to expand access to scientific exploration across our solar system. Its mission is to make planetary research faster, more affordable, and more capable than ever before by rethinking how science missions are designed, built, and operated. The program aims to enable scientists to send instruments to distant worlds without decades of development or prohibitive costs. By creating a sustainable model for interplanetary exploration, we are transforming space science from an occasional event into a continuous process of discovery that accelerates knowledge, broadens participation, and inspires the next generation of explorers.

About the Role:

We are seeking a driven science payload manager to lead the delivery, integration, and operations support for a science instrument suite. This is a highly technical role for a leader who combines deep technical and scientific competency, is confident in making risk-based decisions, and has a sense of personal ownership over the success of the instrument from build phase through on-orbit operations.

In this role you will serve as the responsible engineer for working with our partners to ensure the delivered instruments meet or exceed the desired science capability, and proceed smoothly and efficiently through environmental testing, spacecraft integration, commissioning, and in-space operations. This role requires you to understand the science and the engineering, manage risk proactively, make hard decisions under uncertainty, own the outcomes, communicate clearly to multiple stakeholders, and care deeply about the science results. You will need to understand the engineering systems and be an advocate for how they should be designed to support and enable collecting exceptional science on this and future missions. You will operate as part of a fast-moving, lean, multi-disciplinary team driven by mission success.

About You

• Master's degree in planetary science, engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline
• 3+ years experience in science research
• 3+ years experience working on a spacecraft payload through multiple phases (e.g., some combination of formulation, build, testing, integration, on-spacecraft testing, commissioning, operations)
• Relentless curiosity and a desire to understand and optimize systems
• Familiarity with Earth and planetary science missions and the unique constraints on instruments (power, mass, thermal, data rate, radiation)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to haves but not required

• Experience with planetary science instruments

This position may require occasional travel to partner institutions, test facilities, and mission integration sites (<10% time). During critical mission phases including launch, commissioning, and early operations this position will require shift work and on-call availability. 

Hiring Range and Leveling

Senior Engineer: 124,500 - 170,500
Staff Engineer: 150,000 - 207,000

Leveling and Compensation will be finalized after the interview process, based on an evaluation of job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

About the Team: 

The Interplanetary Sciences Program was established to expand access to scientific exploration across our solar system. Its mission is to make planetary research faster, more affordable, and more capable than ever before by rethinking how science missions are designed, built, and operated. The program aims to enable scientists to send instruments to distant worlds without decades of development or prohibitive costs. By creating a sustainable model for interplanetary exploration, we are transforming space science from an occasional event into a continuous process of discovery that accelerates knowledge, broadens participation, and inspires the next generation of explorers.

About the Role:

We are seeking an operations responsible engineer to lead the planning, design, and execution of spacecraft operations for the Interplanetary Program's first mission. This role carries end-to-end ownership of how the spacecraft is operated — from defining the operations architecture and working directly with multiple science and instrument teams to executing operations that maximize science data collection within real-world spacecraft constraints. Automating spacecraft operations to increase spacecraft capability and efficiency is also a key goal.

This is a senior, highly technical, high-ownership role on a lean team in a fast-moving commercial environment. We are looking for someone who is energized by the challenge of building an operations system that can run a complex, multi-instrument science mission millions of kilometers away and finds deep satisfaction in maximizing the science returned by the mission.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in planetary science, aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years of experience in planetary missions, with demonstrated progression into increasing ownership
• Experience with scripting (e.g., Python) for data analysis or operational tasks
• Proficiency working in Linux/Unix environments
• Ability to reason through cross-subsystem interactions and their operational implications, make decisions with incomplete information and under time pressure
• Excellent communication skills across technical disciplines: engineering, science, software

Nice to haves but not required

• Experience with deep-space mission operations, including surface or orbital science campaigns
• Experience designing onboard autonomy, automated scheduling systems, or ground-based automation frameworks for flight operations

During critical mission phases including launch, commissioning, cruise maneuvers and early operations this position will require shift work and on-call availability. Schedule flexibility will be needed as operational needs evolve. Occasional travel (<10%) to partner institutions and mission integration sites may be required.

Hiring Range and Leveling

Staff Engineer: 169,000 - 207,000
Principal Engineer: 208,000 - 254,000

Leveling and Compensation will be finalized after the interview process, based on an evaluation of job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.

About the Role

Join us in advancing our pipeline to address a number of diseases across therapeutic categories including eye care, dermatology, and other diseases with high unmet needs.

This role will be focused on the development of clinical strategies for assigned programs and is responsible for ensuring effective and efficient execution of the clinical development plan

Let’s talk about some of the key responsibilities of the role:

• A leader with influence to present and collaborate with cross-functional team members to synthesize clinical data.
• Primary author for assigned clinical trial protocols, collaborating with and leading with other functions required for protocol development.
• Contributes or reviews clinical, regulatory, and relevant study documents, including Investigator Brochures, Clinical Study Reports, Statistical Analysis Plans, Operation Manuals, Investigational New Drug Applications/Clinical Trial Applications, case report forms, and data tables listings and figures.
• Educates internal and external team members on protocol execution.
• Primary point of contact to address or properly triage inquiries from site, CRO personnel, and site monitors, regarding study protocol, informed consent, and patient-specific questions.
• Reviews, finalizes, and updates information/data entered in clinical trial registries.
• Participates in development of Clinical Development Plan.
• Partners with data management on resolution of all clinical queries to sites.
• May participate in health authority interactions, as well as interactions with site Institutional Review Boards/ethics committees.
• Contributes to scientific abstracts for submissions to scientific conferences and publications for peer-reviewed journals.
• Creates, reviews, and/or presents clinical slides for internal meetings and external forums.
• Collaborates with biostatistics to develop data tables, listings, and figures.
• Identifies and tracks any potential safety events within a given study, or across studies for assigned programs.
• Conducts medical data review.
• Provides clinical development input to proposed revisions of SOPs and guidance documents.

Factors for Success:

• Advanced clinical/science degree preferred (PharmD, PhD, OD, MD).
• 10+ years minimum experience, with 3+ years of pharma/biotech experience or demonstrates relevant equivalent clinical research experience (Clinical Scientist) and 5+ years of experience with clinical trials. Eye care experience preferred.
• Experience authoring clinical trial protocols and/or study results and conclusions, applying creative thinking and adaptability for early development programs
• In-depth understanding of drug development.
• Working knowledge of basic biostatistics
• Experience working with techniques of data analysis, interpretation, and assessment of clinical relevance.
• Well-versed in medical aspects of Good Clinical Practice, International Council for Harmonization, Food and Drug Administration, European Medicines Agency, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and other relevant guidelines and regulations.
• Has demonstrated, through past experience, abilities to competently manage the majority of clinical science deliverables associated with assigned clinical studies.
• Strong presentation skills: effective at summarizing and presenting the key considerations and decision points.
• Confident and competent when interacting with varying levels of internal/external management, key opinion leaders, etc.
• Excellent teamwork and negotiation skills: knows how to complete deliverables by working effectively with others internally and externally; can effectively drive discussions and decisions toward desired end results.
• Able to work in a fast-paced dynamic organization.
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible and adaptable to change, to move between projects easily, and provide support/expertise where needed.
• Tarsus Competencies:
  • Decision Making - Identifies, analyzes, and resolves issues or challenges effectively and efficiently. Demonstrates creativity, decisiveness, and the capacity to implement solutions in a structured and outcome-oriented manner. Navigates uncertainty when there’s not a blueprint for success. Owns their decisions and actions.
  • Collaboration and Team Building - Builds strong relationships and networks. Is curious about and respectful of different points of view. Cultivates a safe space for discussion readily engaging in group dialogue and debate. Puts the team first.
  • Outcome Driven - Clearly defines mutual expectations of self and others in a team setting. Adapts to changing business needs. Is determined and resourceful in finding solutions, even when faced with obstacles. Takes appropriate actions, including calculated risks, to ensure obligations are met. 

A Few Other Details Worth Mentioning:

• The position will be based in our beautiful Irvine office, complete with onsite gym, pool, snacks, drinks, and occasional catered meals. We provide a hybrid work environment. Remote work is an option.
• We are passionate about our culture! Our Tarsans live our values of commitment to patients, empowerment to champion innovation, and teamwork to amplify impact!
• This position reports directly to the COO.
• Some travel may be required – up to 50%

At Tarsus, we understand the importance of attracting and retaining top talent. The expected base pay range for this position is $165,000 - $231,000 plus bonus, stock equity, and comprehensive benefits. The base pay range reflects the target range for this position, but individual pay will be determined by additional factors such as job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training. Our benefits include health, dental and vision insurance benefits to ensure your well-being. We believe in work-life balance and offer generous paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and personal days. For more details regarding Tarsus benefits, please visit: https://eb.alliant.com/26tarsusbenefitssnapshot.

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Who We Are 

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale—empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future.

About the role 

In this role, you will collaborate closely with researchers and engineers on the Learned Behavior teams to tackle plan generation challenges in autonomous driving. You’ll apply state-of-the-art generative modeling techniques—ranging from cutting-edge diffusion, flow matching, energy-based models, and SoTA algorithms—in order to develop novel solutions that generate safe, comfortable, and efficient driving behaviors in the most challenging real world situations. Beyond core research, you’ll own the end-to-end lifecycle of your models, productizing them for robust, real-world autonomous driving deployments on a global scale.

About the Work

• Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation.
• Build generative models with foundation models. Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation.
• Optimize generative models using reinforcement learning to improve interactive reasoning. Explore reward modeling/learned verifier using generative models. Explore joint prediction and planning and self-play. Leverage generative models for active learning and world modeling.
• Develop controllable generative models to guide the generation process towards desired goals, conditions and rewards.
• Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them, evaluate your solution by deploying the models on to the NuroDriver.

About You

You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:

• You have a Ph.D. (preferable) or M.Sc. with 3+ years of experience working with generative models in the lab, in industry, or both.
• Research experiences in generative models, particularly diffusion models, flow matching and energy-based models, for robotics, including manipulation, path planning, and autonomous driving. Experiences in vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning for generative model optimization, video generation, text-to-image generation, diffusion models for LLMs, world foundation models, and other applications of generative modeling are a bonus!
• You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
• Strong culture fit and good team player.

Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL etc.)

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $193,930 and $352,290/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Who We Are 

Nuro is a self-driving technology company on a mission to make autonomy accessible to all. Founded in 2016, Nuro is building the world’s most scalable driver, combining cutting-edge AI with automotive-grade hardware. Nuro licenses its core technology, the Nuro Driver™, to support a wide range of applications, from robotaxis and commercial fleets to personally owned vehicles. With technology proven over years of self-driving deployments, Nuro gives the automakers and mobility platforms a clear path to AVs at commercial scale—empowering a safer, richer, and more connected future.

 About the Work

• Develop and scale state-of-the-art generative models—especially diffusion architectures, flow-matching techniques, and energy-based models —for autonomous plan generation.
• Build generative models with foundation models. Leverage large language models and world foundation models for reasoning, decision making and multi-modality generation.
• Optimize generative models using reinforcement learning to improve interactive reasoning. Explore reward modeling/learned verifier using generative models. Explore joint prediction and planning and self-play. Leverage generative models for active learning and world modeling.
• Develop controllable generative models to guide the generation process towards desired goals, conditions and rewards.
• Collaborate across autonomy teams while developing holistic solutions to top autonomy challenges. Understand issues, propose ideas, prioritize work and develop solutions to solve them, evaluate your solution by deploying the models on to the NuroDriver.

About You

You have deep expertise and prior experience in some or many of the following areas:

• You have a Ph.D. (preferable) or M.Sc. with 2-3 years of experience working with generative models in the lab, in industry, or both.
• Research experiences in generative models, particularly diffusion models, flow matching and energy-based models, for robotics, including manipulation, path planning, and autonomous driving. Experiences in vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning for generative model optimization, video generation, text-to-image generation, diffusion models for LLMs, world foundation models, and other applications of generative modeling are a bonus!
• You have strong problem solving and programming skills in Python and/or C++
• Strong culture fit and good team player.
• Demonstrated research publications in top conferences (e.g. NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, RSS, CoRL etc.)

At Nuro, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $160,360 and $240,540/ year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. In the event that you are considered for a different level, a higher or lower pay range would apply. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus, equity, and a competitive benefits package.

At Nuro, we celebrate differences and are committed to a diverse workplace that fosters inclusion and psychological safety for all employees. Nuro is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and expressly prohibits any form of workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an exceptional AI Research Scientist to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible to:

• Explore workflow‑aware planning, cost‑optimised RAG, tool‑use evaluation, and multi‑agent collaboration.

• Prototype and benchmark models; present findings internally and externally.

• Collaborate with Product & Engineering to ship research‑backed features.

• Contribute to open‑source repos and author technical blogs.

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, or related field—or equivalent experience.

• Hands‑on with PyTorch/JAX and modern LLM frameworks.

• Strong publication record in top-tier ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) or demonstrable impactful experimental work; hands‑on experience with large‑scale model training, transformer architectures, reinforcement‑learning techniques, and CUDA.

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Curiosity‑driven and self‑directed.

• Ability to explain complex ideas to non‑experts.

• Team player who welcomes feedback and knowledge‑sharing.

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As a Data Scientist supporting AI engineers, you will partner with one or more engineering teams, developing actionable insights that guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver. Using experimental and observational analyses of real and simulated driving, you will help teams advance the functionality, safety, and performance of the Wayve AI Driver, helping to advance Wayve as the leader in end-to-end AI for autonomous mobility.

This means you might:

• Formulate and iterate upon the performance metrics that organize our engineering efforts and guide progress toward commercial success
• Design experiments and targeted off-road measurements to ensure that we deliver product requirements to customers while maintaining safety and performance
• Investigate factors in model training and inference leading to bottlenecks in functionality and performance, identifying and validating hypotheses for unlocking improvements

What we are looking for in our candidate

Essential

• 3+ years experience working in a Data Science role.
• Fluent in querying and building large datasets, writing production-level SQL for use in data-transformation pipelines.
• Prior experience designing robust real-world experiments (e.g. A/B) and critically evaluating test-statistics
• Foundations in the fundamentals behind statistics: testing appropriate distributions, testing the assumptions behind frequentist stats
• Proficient in using a statistical scripting language and data science/ML packages (e.g. python such as pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy or R such as dplyr, caret, stats)
• Well-versed in summarising, visualising and communicating findings in an accessible and compelling way
• Track record of influencing team direction through your findings  
• A bias towards deriving actionable insight that can be used to drive prioritisation and strategy for others.
• Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones with cross-functional partners
• You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it.

Desired

• Practical experience with machine learning (e.g. pytorch). Passion to take research ideas to production.
• Track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practices in your prior roles.
• Prior experience using causal inference/econometric techniques and bayesian methodologies for hypothesis testing.
• Prior experience using large datasets with distributed computing (e.g. spark, hadoop or other map-reduce tech)
• Experience working in a fast-moving tech company or startup.

We are seeking a Scientist II to join the Reagent Sustaining and Applications group to lead sustaining efforts for our Chromium Single Cell products. The role interfaces with R&D, Production, Marketing, and Support to provide the best products to our customers from pre-launch to end of life. 

The ideal candidate should have expertise in product development, troubleshooting complex issues, and understanding of molecular biology, including single cell assays, reagent manufacturing, and developing assays for quality control or manufacturing environments.

What you will be doing:

• Lead efforts in testing new materials, tools, and workflows to improve 10x’s state-of-the-art products.
• Collaborate with key internal and external partners to troubleshoot and mitigate any issues that may arise in 10x’s Chromium product line.
• Design and execute experiments to assess the impact of protocol, reagent, or process changes on 10x’s Assays.
• Perform statistical analyses on key assay and QC metrics.
• Update manufacturing documents and present results.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS, MS, or PhD in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, analytical chemistry, or related fields.
• 8+ years (BS), 5+ years (MS) or 3+ years (PhD) of relevant experience in reagent or assay development and optimization, preferably in the Biotechnology industry.
• Experience analyzing large-scale single-cell or spatial transcriptomics datasets to derive biologically meaningful insights and/or diagnostic biomarkers.
• Ability to design and execute experiments to measure the impact of process improvements and/or formulation changes.
• Experience with a broad variety of molecular biology and analytical techniques including qPCR, nucleic acid isolation, use of plate readers, Bioanalyzers, gel imagers, real-time PCR instruments, etc.
• Experience with single cell assays including cell handling, library preparation and downstream analysis.
• Experience investigating, identifying, documenting, communicating, and resolving quality control issues in a controlled manufacturing environment.
• Experience defining, documenting, communicating, and transferring new manufacturing workflows into controlled manufacturing environments.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a conscientious work ethic.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Hands-on experience with the 10x Chromium platform.
• Experience using statistical tools, such as JMP or R to analyze complex data sets, create DOE experiments, and create data trending reports.
• Experience with bioinformatic analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data from Illumina platforms.

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Position Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Scientist I to join the Content Development team. In this role, you will support the development, optimization, and characterization of NULISA-based immunoassays and multiplex proteomic panels across diverse disease areas. You will work closely with cross-functional partners including R&D, Manufacturing, Bioinformatics, and related teams to ensure robust assay performance and high-quality deliverables.

The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on immunoassay execution skills, a solid foundation in data analysis, and the ability to contribute effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative product development environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, development, and optimization of multiplex proteomic panels across various disease areas to support biomarker discovery, validation, and translational research.
• Develop and optimize the high-plex panels to ensure high specificity, sensitivity, and reproducibility of the product.
• Perform multivariate analysis to optimize assay performance, minimize cross-reactivity and mitigate matrix effect.
• Troubleshoot technical challenges via root-cause analysis and implement corrective strategies.
• Develop and maintain critical documentation, including SOPs, PRDs, and assay transfer documents to support product development and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to advance projects and contribute to strategic discussions.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or a related discipline with 0–3 years of relevant industry experience; M.S. with 2–5 years of experience will also be considered.
• Hands-on experience with immunoassays or multiplex assay platforms (e.g., Luminex, MSD, Olink, Ella, SomaLogic, etc.).
• Familiarity with molecular biology methods (e.g., qPCR, ddPCR, or NGS) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with attention to detail in experimental execution.
• Ability to manage time effectively, work collaboratively, and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills, including data presentation and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of biomarker research, assay validation, or clinical sample testing is desirable.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 - $140,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The ranges displayed on each job posting reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries but are subject to change if the leveling of the role is adjusted. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process. 

About The Role

10x Genomics is establishing a diagnostics effort, translating our leading single-cell and spatial assay technologies into impactful clinical applications. We are seeking a Scientist II to join the clinical bioinformatics team. The ideal candidate excels at distilling complex biological questions into actionable computational strategies, implementing computational/statistical methods and applying them to large-scale single-cell or spatial transcriptomics datasets to derive clinically meaningful insights.

The role requires a biology-first mindset, proficiency with large-scale bioinformatics analyses, strong scientific acumen and statistical rigor. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work with some of the largest biomedical datasets assayed using cutting-edge 10x Genomics technologies, deriving clinical insights that power the next generation of clinical diagnostics.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Implement rigorous computational/statistical methods for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data analysis.
• Derive actionable insights from clinical/translational single-cell or in-situ spatial datasets.
• Design, implement and validate biomarkers for diagnostic applications.
• Implement and maintain bioinformatics pipelines for reproducible, large-scale data processing.
• Process and analyze single-cell or in-situ spatial transcriptomics datasets spanning hundreds to thousands of samples.

To Be Successful, You Will Need:

• Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics or a related discipline with extensive hands-on experience in single-cell NGS data analysis.
• A minimum of 2 years of industry experience post Ph.D.
• Experience analyzing large-scale single-cell or spatial transcriptomics datasets to derive biologically meaningful insights and/or diagnostic biomarkers.
• In-depth understanding of the assumptions, limitations and caveats of statistical methods.
• Experience developing and optimizing high-performance, scalable code.
• Proficiency working in a Linux environment.
• Goal-oriented, self-motivated and an independent problem solver.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a conscientious work ethic.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience with 10x Genomics single-cell and in-situ transcriptomics technologies is a strong preference
• Hands-on research experience in cancer or autoimmune diseases is a strong preference
• Knowledge of clinical genomics, biomarker discovery and diagnostics
• Development of statistical models and algorithms for single-cell or spatial transcriptomics data
• Application of machine learning, particularly in the context of genomics
• Proficiency with workflow orchestration frameworks such as Snakemake, Nextflow or Martian
• Programming best practices including data analysis reproducibility, version control, design patterns, testing, debugging and profiling
• Track record of writing production-level code or maintaining published software packages
• High-throughput computing infrastructure such as HPCs or cloud computing

Position Summary

We are seeking an Associate Scientist, Technology Development, with a passion for innovation to join our technology development team to work on our novel protein detection platform. You will be working in a fast-paced environment, on multiple projects, and will be a part of a rapidly growing company to make a difference in life science research and early disease diagnosis.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply laboratory skills and experience to generate high-quality data in developing new technologies and in developing new biomarker assays.
• Maintain accurate records of work performed including reagents, methodology, and results.
• Perform data analysis and report results, and detailed data organization.
• High-throughput manual and automated experiment execution, instrument operation
• Examine the impacts of multiple variables on assay performance and perform troubleshooting as needed.
• Support in-house engineers to integrate and adapt different assay workflows onto Alamar’s proprietary instrument platform.
• Cross-functional collaboration across different teams to enable technology and product advancement

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, or a related field, with relevant industry experience (2+ for BS, 1+ for MS).
• 2+ years of hands-on laboratory experience performing ELISA, qPCR, or similar assays, including data generation, analysis, and review.
• Proven ability to follow SOPs, maintain accurate documentation, and ensure high-quality experimental records.
• Strong organizational skills; prior experience with lab operations or inventory management is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail, organization skills, and commitment to data quality
• A positive, self‑motivated attitude with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple complex tasks or projects simultaneously.
• Ability to handle biofluid samples a plus
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Experience with automated lab equipments or high throughput assay workflows
• Familiarity with data analysis tools such as R and JMP.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $80,000 - $100,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by work location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. The ranges displayed on each job posting reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries but are subject to change if the leveling of the role is adjusted. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process. 

We are hiring an Applied Scientist to help advance personalization across the Crunchyroll ecosystem. In this role, you will lead the scientific development of recommendation, ranking, and decisioning solutions that improve how fans discover and engage with anime series/movies, manga, merchandise, games, and other areas in the anime fandom. You will partner closely with Machine Learning Engineers, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Content stakeholders to make Crunchyroll the ultimate destination for anime experience.

About the role

In the role of Senior Applied Scientist for Recommendation and Personalization, you will report to the Director of Data Science and Machine Learning in our Center for Data and Insights. You will own the research and applied science agenda for personalization, from problem framing and data exploration through model development, evaluation, experimentation, and iteration. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining strong scientific rigor with product thinking to improve user discovery, engagement, retention, and long-term fan value.

You will work across multiple user touchpoints, including app and web interfaces, lifecycle and promotional email campaigns, and flywheels that connect video, ecommerce, manga, and adjacent experiences. You will help define what great personalization looks like at Crunchyroll, build the evidence to prove impact, and collaborate with engineering partners to ensure the resulting solutions can be productionized effectively.

This position is based in our Los Angeles office, but we will consider our San Francisco office as a secondary location. We work a hybrid schedule, in-office three days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 

Core areas of responsibility

• Lead the research and development of recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and personalization methods tailored to Crunchyroll use cases across streaming, manga, ecommerce, and lifecycle marketing surfaces.
• Frame ambiguous business and product questions into clear scientific problems, hypotheses, success metrics, and experimentation plans.
• Design and run robust offline evaluation frameworks for recommender systems, including relevance, diversity, novelty, coverage, calibration, and long-term value metrics.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, and Engineering to define online experiments, interpret results, and turn learnings into roadmap decisions and model improvements.
• Develop user, content, and contextual understanding through feature design, representation learning, segmentation, and behavioral analysis.
• Prototype and evaluate a range of approaches, including collaborative filtering, content-based methods, sequence modeling, deep learning, bandits, causal or uplift methods, and LLM-enabled recommendation techniques where appropriate.
• Analyze user feedback loops and cross-domain interactions to improve discovery across video, merchandise, manga, and other ecosystem experiences.
• Work closely with Machine Learning Engineers to translate promising research into production-ready solutions on our in-house recommendation platform.
• Communicate scientific findings, model tradeoffs, and business implications clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help establish best practices for experimentation, reproducibility, model governance, and scientific documentation within the personalization and recommendations function.

About you

We get excited about candidates, like you, because you have:

Experience: You bring 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning, recommendation systems, search/ranking, experimentation, or a closely related area, with a track record of driving measurable product impact.

Scientific Depth: You have strong foundations in machine learning, statistics, experimental design, and causal thinking, and you know how to choose the right level of modeling complexity for the problem at hand.

Recommendation Expertise: You have hands-on experience with at least some of the following: collaborative filtering, retrieval and ranking systems, representation learning, sequence / generative models, bandits, graph methods, or personalization for consumer products.

Technical Skills: You are highly proficient in Python and comfortable working with common ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, or similar tooling. Experience working with SQL, distributed data processing, and cloud-based ML workflows is strongly preferred.

Experimentation Mindset: You know how to design offline and online evaluations, reason carefully about metrics, and connect experimental findings to user and business outcomes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: You have experience partnering effectively with engineers, product managers, analysts, marketers, and business stakeholders to move from idea to execution.

Communication Skills: You can explain sophisticated modeling decisions and ambiguous findings in a clear, decision-oriented way to diverse audiences.

Educational Background: You hold an MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline, or you bring equivalent applied industry experience.

Nice to have

• Experience personalizing content, commerce, media, entertainment, gaming, or subscription products at scale.
• Familiarity with recommender-system failure modes such as popularity bias, cold start, sparse feedback, and feedback loop effects.
• Experience with multi-objective optimization, constrained ranking, or balancing short-term engagement with long-term user value.
• Exposure to generative AI, representation learning, or LLM applications that support recommendation and personalization workflows.
• Published research, patents, or open-source contributions in recommendation systems, personalization, applied machine learning, or experimentation.

About the team

Our centralized DS/ML team serves stakeholders across Finance, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Creatives, and Content Operations with data-driven and ML/AI-powered solutions. Within that broader organization, the Personalization and Recommendation group is building the next generation capabilities to power tailored fan experiences across every major user interface and lifecycle touchpoint. Today, the team includes engineers focused on operationalizing our recommendation platform with strong engineering excellence. This Applied Scientist role complements that foundation by bringing deeper scientific ownership to modeling strategy, evaluation, and experimentation, while partnering closely with an additional MLE hire to accelerate production impact.

Why this role is exciting

• You will help define personalization strategy across multiple surfaces instead of optimizing a single narrow funnel.
• You will work on problems that span content discovery, user engagement, retention, and cross-domain ecosystem value.
• You will influence both what we build and how we measure success, with strong exposure to partners across the business.
• You will join at a formative moment, with the opportunity to shape team standards, technical direction, and long-term roadmap.

Why you will love working at Crunchyroll

In addition to getting to work with fun, passionate and inspired colleagues, you will also enjoy the following benefits and perks:

#LifeAtCrunchyroll #LI-Hybrid

ABOUT THE JOB

The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Data Scientist II, Natural Language Processing (NLP) Specialist in the Analytics Division of the Technology Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, or Washington, DC. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month. 

The ACLU Technology Department is a broad umbrella covering both the ACLU’s Analytics and its Product & Engineering teams, two robust and innovative divisions that power the work of the ACLU. The department provides trusted, dependable, and impactful analytics, engineering, as well as product management and product design expertise for the ACLU. In partnership with experts across the ACLU, the Technology Team delivers best-in-class solutions, services, and innovation that advance the ACLU mission and organizational priorities. The tech team strives to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of technology by ensuring privacy and security standards are maintained, directional insights are used to inform programming and business strategy, best-in-class products are designed to get the ACLU message out into the world and grow the ACLU supporter base, as well as to help steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency.  

The Analytics division includes analysts, data scientists, survey experts, social scientists, and analytics engineers that support evidence-based decision making and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public. 

This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU).

WHAT YOU'LL DO 

Reporting to the Data Science Manager — Algorithmic Justice Specialist and collaborating closely with our DevOps Engineering Team, Product Manager for Discovery, and Algorithmic Justice Fellow, the Data Scientist II, NLP Specialist, will support development and evaluation work for high-priority, carefully scoped projects using NLP to support the ACLU’s mission. In this role, the NLP Specialist will be responsible for evaluating proposed uses of generative AI and non-generative natural language AI systems, providing recommendations on whether AI tooling is appropriate or ill-suited for various tasks, and when appropriate, contributing to the development and implementation of AI-based solutions to support the organization’s mission.  

YOUR DAY TO DAY

• Work with various teams and departments to evaluate proposed AI use cases for feasibility and alignment with ACLU values and requirements related to privacy, security, transparency, bias, and environmental impacts  
• Provide recommendations to department and organizational leaders on whether AI tooling is appropriate or ill-suited for various tasks and use cases 
• Develop recommendations and architecture plans for intentional, carefully crafted uses of NLP tooling, appropriately selecting generative or non-generative AI systems and related guardrails and monitoring based on the context and requirements of the use case 
• Contribute to the development and implementation of AI-based solutions when appropriate, collaborating with various departments to ensure successful design, deployment, and continuous evaluation of such systems 
• Contribute to the establishment of AI governance practices and standards in collaboration with colleagues across the organization 
• Contribute to the development of context-specific, high-quality benchmarks for language modelling systems tailored for civil rights and public interest organizations 
• Contribute to various other projects supporting the ACLU’s litigation and policy work by applying natural language processing methods to policy or regulatory text data  
• When relevant, collaborate with academic and civil society researchers to turn your learnings and insights into resources to benefit other public interest organizations 
• Brief departmental leadership on relevant AI research and developments and prepare materials for senior leaders’ speaking engagements on AI issues 
• Communicate to non-technical audiences—including ACLU lawyers, policy advocates, and other staff—details of how large language models (LLMs) and small language models (SLMs) are designed and deployed, including their civil rights implications 
• Implement tooling to estimate the environmental impact of deployed AI systems 
• Stay abreast of important developments in the generative AI research and development space 

FUTURE ACLU'ERS WILL 

• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflicts

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Substantial research or professional experience on issues related to fairness, accountability, and transparency of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, especially generative AI systems 
• Substantial expertise and training in the field of natural language processing, including experience conducting statistical analyses with text data, evaluating and implementing machine learning methods for text data, and strong understanding of text representation techniques 
• Strong familiarity with language modeling and natural language techniques, including strong understanding of the core concept underlying the design of small language models (SLMs) and large language models (LLMs)  
• Substantial experience writing code in Python and working with open-source NLP libraries such as transformers and NLTK 
• Substantial experience working with text data from legal, policy, and social science contexts, such as legal filings, statutes, and regulations 
• Familiarity with the core concepts underlying multi-modal (e.g., text-to-speech, text-to-video, etc.) generative AI systems and experience working with multi-modal datasets 
• Familiarity with popular approaches and frameworks for monitoring and evaluating AI-enabled systems, especially generative AI systems 
• Professional or research experience developing software and strong familiarity with common software engineering practices such as version control, testing, and code reviews 
• Experience developing documentation of technical products and systems tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences 
• Experience working with cloud services (e.g. Amazon Web Services, Azure) a nice to have 
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technologists without NLP expertise and non-technical stakeholders 
• Excellent project management and collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering with cross-functional teams to translate organizational needs into technical solutions 

COMPENSATION

WHY THE ACLU

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.

We know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and know that what we offer is essential not just their work, but to their overall well-being. 

At the ACLU, we offer a broad range of benefits, which include:

• Time away to focus on the things that matter with a generous paid time-off policy
• Focus on your well-being with comprehensive healthcare benefits (including medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, gender affirming care & fertility treatment)
• Plan for your retirement with 401k plan and employer match
• We support employee growth and development through annual professional development funds, internal professional development programs and workshops

OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change.  We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.    

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

The Department of Education has determined that employment in this position at the ACLU does not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. 

Who We Are

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While candidates in the listed locations are encouraged for this role, we are open to remote candidates in other locations.

Databricks is looking for a Principal Data Scientist to serve as the statistical voice of the Data Science organization. This person will make Databricks smarter and more data-driven at the highest levels of leadership — translating the full power of data science into clear, actionable narratives for our CEO, C-suite, and Board of Directors.

Our vision is simple: data drives every Databricks decision and action. To get there, we need a world-class statistician and communicator — someone who can bridge the gap between deep analytical rigor and executive decision-making. This is a pure IC role with company-wide influence: no direct reports, maximum leverage.

Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. We built the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to help organizations unify their data, analytics, and AI workloads. With more than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including over half of the Fortune 500 — relying on Databricks, and a team of 7,000+ employees, we are at the forefront of the data and AI revolution. We have been recognized as a leader by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, and have raised more than $4 billion in funding at a $62 billion valuation.

The Impact You Will Have

• Executive translation. Translate complex data science findings into clear, actionable narratives for the CEO, C-suite, and Board of Directors — ensuring data science insights directly inform the company's most critical decisions.
• Statistical authority. Serve as the company's chief statistical voice and the final quality backstop for analytical rigor in high-stakes executive decisions. Advance the state-of-the-art in how Databricks applies statistical methods to business problems.
• Org-wide uplevel. Raise the communication bar across the entire Data Science organization by setting standards, coaching teams, and co-authoring key executive-facing deliverables. Make every DS team better at telling their story.
• Strategic insights. Produce deep strategic analyses on revenue, platform health, operational efficiency, and competitive positioning — the kind of synthesized, judgment-rich insight that AI cannot autonomously create.
• Cross-functional influence. Partner with engineering VPs, product leaders, and executive staff to embed a data-driven decision-making culture across the company. Be the trusted analytical advisor in rooms where critical decisions are made.
• External thought leadership. Represent Databricks externally as a data science thought leader at industry conferences, in publications, and in the broader statistical community. Build an external identity that attracts world-class talent.
• Methodology and standards. Define and evolve company-wide scientific methodologies — experimentation frameworks, forecasting systems, causal inference approaches — to match and push industry state-of-the-art.

What We Look For

Required

• 15+ years of experience in data science, statistics, or quantitative research spanning industry and/or academia.
• Proven track record of presenting statistical and data science concepts to C-suite and Board-level audiences, with measurable impact on executive decision-making.
• Broad expertise across data science disciplines: experimentation, causal inference, forecasting, optimization, and machine learning.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication — the ability to make complex statistical concepts intuitive and compelling for non-technical executives.
• Track record of upleveling teams: setting analytical standards, mentoring senior data scientists, and improving org-wide output quality.
• Experience at the intersection of statistics and large-scale technology or data platforms.
• Ph.D. in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.

Preferred

• Academic research or teaching background in statistics or a quantitative field.
• Industry experience at multiple tier-1 technology companies.
• Published research or recognized thought leadership in applied statistics.
• Experience building or leading a "Chief Statistician" or equivalent function.
• Experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems-oriented data science.

As a Data Scientist supporting AI engineers, you will partner with one or more engineering teams, developing actionable insights that guide improvements to the Wayve AI Driver. Using experimental and observational analyses of real and simulated driving, you will help teams advance the functionality, safety, and performance of the Wayve AI Driver, helping to advance Wayve as the leader in end-to-end AI for autonomous mobility.

This means you might:

• Formulate and iterate upon the performance metrics that organize our engineering efforts and guide progress toward commercial success
• Design experiments and targeted off-road measurements to ensure that we deliver product requirements to customers while maintaining safety and performance
• Investigate factors in model training and inference leading to bottlenecks in functionality and performance, identifying and validating hypotheses for unlocking improvements

What we are looking for in our candidate

Essential

• 3+ years experience working in a Data Science role.
• Fluent in querying and building large datasets, writing production-level SQL for use in data-transformation pipelines.
• Prior experience designing robust real-world experiments (e.g. A/B) and critically evaluating test-statistics
• Foundations in the fundamentals behind statistics: testing appropriate distributions, testing the assumptions behind frequentist stats
• Proficient in using a statistical scripting language and data science/ML packages (e.g. python such as pandas, sklearn, statsmodels, scipy or R such as dplyr, caret, stats)
• Well-versed in summarising, visualising and communicating findings in an accessible and compelling way
• Track record of influencing team direction through your findings  
• A bias towards deriving actionable insight that can be used to drive prioritisation and strategy for others.
• Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones with cross-functional partners
• You are deeply curious about building something new and relish the idea of helping to define AV2.0 and how we build it.

Desired

• Practical experience with machine learning (e.g. pytorch). Passion to take research ideas to production.
• Track record of promoting statistical rigour and experimental best practices in your prior roles.
• Prior experience using causal inference/econometric techniques and bayesian methodologies for hypothesis testing.
• Prior experience using large datasets with distributed computing (e.g. spark, hadoop or other map-reduce tech)
• Experience working in a fast-moving tech company or startup.

About The Role:
10x Genomics is establishing a diagnostics effort to translate our leading single-cell and spatial genomics technologies into impactful clinical applications. This Clinical Laboratory Scientist/General Supervisor position is responsible for the day-to-day execution and oversight of high complexity next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing within a CLIA-certified laboratory. This role ensures the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of test results while maintaining full compliance with regulatory and quality standards. The General Supervisor provides technical leadership, staff supervision, and operational support to ensure efficient laboratory performance.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Perform and oversee daily laboratory operations for high complexity NGS assays, ensuring adherence to established protocols and quality standards.
• Supervise and provide guidance to laboratory personnel, including training, competency assessment, and performance management.
• Ensure the accuracy and validity of test results through review of quality control, quality assurance, and assay performance metrics.
• Maintain compliance with CLIA, CAP, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
• Assist in the development, validation, implementation, and optimization of NGS assays and workflows.
• Monitor laboratory workflow, turnaround times, and resource utilization to ensure operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot technical issues related to instrumentation, assays, and data analysis.
• Review and maintain laboratory documentation, including SOPs, validation reports, and quality records.
• Collaborate with laboratory leadership to support continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Ensure proper maintenance and calibration of laboratory equipment.
  
  

To Be Successful in the Role, You Will Need:

• Active California Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license (or CGMBS/generalist license) meeting CLIA requirements for high-complexity testing
• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, biological, physical, clinical laboratory science, or a related field
• Meets CLIA General Supervisor qualifications under 42 CFR 493.1461, including appropriate education, training, and experience
• Minimum of 2–4 years of experience in high complexity CLIA testing, with demonstrated expertise and experience in NGS technologies.
  Prior supervisory or leadership experience preferred.
• Strong knowledge of CLIA regulations and quality systems.
• Experience with NGS platforms, library preparation, sequencing, and bioinformatics pipelines.

Additional Attributes

• Prior experience serving as CLIA General Supervisor
• Startup or high growth laboratory experience
• Background in medical or oncology diagnostics
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.

About The Role:
10x Genomics is establishing a diagnostics effort to translate our leading single-cell and spatial genomics technologies into impactful clinical applications. This Clinical Laboratory Scientist/Technical Supervisor position performs and provides scientific and technical oversight for high complexity next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays within a CLIA-certified laboratory. This role is accountable for ensuring the operational execution, analytical validity, performance, and regulatory compliance of all NGS testing. The Technical Supervisor serves as the subject matter expert for assay validation, quality systems, and troubleshooting, and partners closely with laboratory leadership to maintain operational excellence and continuous improvement.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Provide operational execution and technical oversight of high complexity NGS assays, ensuring analytical accuracy and reliability of test results.
• Validate, and implement NGS assays in accordance with CLIA, CAP, and applicable regulatory standards.
• Establish and monitor quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) programs, including review of performance metrics, trends, and corrective actions.
• Author, review, and approve technical documentation, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), validation protocols/reports, and test methods.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and support internal and external audits and inspections.
• Serve as the primary technical resource for troubleshooting complex assay, instrumentation, and bioinformatics issues.
• Evaluate and approve changes to assays, workflows, instrumentation, and software, including revalidation as required.
• Oversee proficiency testing, method comparisons, and ongoing assay performance monitoring.
• Provide technical training and competency assessment for laboratory personnel.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (bioinformatics, R&D, quality, and operations) to support assay optimization and innovation.
• Stay current with emerging technologies, regulatory updates, and best practices in NGS and molecular diagnostics.
  
  

To Be Successful in this Role, You Will Need:

• Active California Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) license meeting CLIA requirements for Technical Supervisor of high complexity testing.
• Meets CLIA Technical Supervisor qualifications under 42 CFR 493.1449, including appropriate education, training, and experience
• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, biological, physical, clinical laboratory science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4–6 years of experience in CLIA lab molecular diagnostics, with significant experience in NGS assay validation, implementation, and operation
• Demonstrated expertise and experience in NGS technologies, including library preparation, sequencing platforms, and bioinformatics analysis pipelines
• Strong knowledge of CLIA, CAP, NYS, and other regulatory frameworks governing high complexity testing.
• Proven experience with assay validation, QC/QA systems, and regulatory inspections.

Additional attributes

• Prior experience serving as CLIA Technical Supervisor
• Startup or high growth laboratory experience
• Background in medical or oncology diagnostics
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly.

We're looking for a motivated and creative Machine Learning (ML) Scientist to drive research into new technologies for biomolecular design. This position offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of generative modeling research across language processing, representation learning, and protein engineering. You should be a self-directed researcher who has the ability to rapidly prototype and evaluate new models and algorithms in the biomolecular domain. 

As an early employee, you will proactively shape the direction of our machine learning efforts and collaborate across diverse teams of computational and experimental scientists.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop state-of-the-art deep learning methods for protein sequence, structure, and function prediction and apply them to protein design
• Curate relevant datasets and design tasks for rigorous evaluation of generative models 
• Collaborate with Biology team to design and characterize novel designed biomolecules
• Implement, analyze, and interpret multiple computational approaches and present results to colleagues in regular update meetings
• Work within a collaborative, fast-paced, interdisciplinary team across biology and machine learning to help shape the scientific and strategic vision of the company

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Applied Math, Computational Biology, Statistics, or a related field
• Experience with conceiving of, implementing, and evaluating novel machine learning techniques
• Publications at major machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) or scientific journals (Nature, Science, Nature Biotech, Nature Methods, PNAS)
• Experience with modern deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch or Jax

Preferences (but not required)

• Familiarity with foundational biology of proteins and nucleic acids
• Experience developing machine learning models for proteins (language models, structure prediction, design)
• Previous experience in data extraction and curation from bioinformatics data sources
• Familiarity with wet lab experimental assays and associated limitations
• Experience with cloud compute platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)

What We Offer

• High-growth opportunity with meaningful impact on the future of protein design
• Competitive compensation package with equity participation
• 401(k) with a strong employer match
• Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/vision insurance
• Generous PTO policy and commitment to work-life balance
• Professional development opportunities in a cutting-edge field at the intersection of AI and biology

Profluent Bio, Inc is an equal opportunity employer promoting diversity and inclusion in the workspace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical conditions, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding), genetic information, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave, or any other basis protected by law.

Employment Eligibility Verification

Legal authorization to work in the United States is required. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired must verify their identity and work eligibility and complete the required employment verification form upon hire.

Principal Research Scientist – Scaling

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About Databricks AI

At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development, by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform. The Databricks AI Research organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data; from pre-training LLMs from scratch to state-of-the-art retrieval-augmented generation by producing novel science and putting it into production.

We believe a company’s AI models are a core part of their IP, and that high‑quality AI models should be available to all.

About the Scaling Research Team

The Databricks AI Scaling team focuses on pushing the boundaries of large language model (LLM) training and inference efficiency beyond what is required to support existing models. The team explores novel avenues for scaling and efficiency improvements across algorithms, systems, and infrastructure, requiring researchers who can both drive independent research agendas and dive deep into low‑level implementation details with engineering partners.

Role Summary

As a Principal Research Scientist – Scaling, you will lead a team of world‑class researchers and engineers to advance the state of the art in large‑scale machine learning, focusing on post-training, RL and inference efficiency, optimization, and scaling. You will define and execute a research roadmap that advances the Databricks AI platform and delivers tangible improvements to how customers train, serve, and adapt LLMs at scale, working closely with product, data, and engineering leaders to bring cutting‑edge methods into production.

The Impact You Will Have

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary research team focused on foundational and applied AI problems, with a particular emphasis on LLM scaling, efficiency, and systems performance.
• Define the scaling research roadmap in alignment with Databricks’ strategic objectives, prioritizing advances in foundation model efficiency and large‑scale training and inference.
• Drive algorithmic innovations for large‑scale neural network training and inference, including novel optimizers, low‑precision techniques, and model adaptation methods, and guide your team in rigorous empirical validation against state‑of‑the‑art approaches.
• Optimize end‑to‑end ML systems for distributed training and RL, memory efficiency, and compute efficiency through close collaboration with core systems and platform teams, ensuring that research ideas translate into performant, reliable infrastructure.
• Partner with product and engineering to translate research breakthroughs, especially around scaling and efficiency, into customer‑impacting capabilities in the Databricks AI platform.
• Foster a culture of scientific excellence and openness, including high‑quality research practices, reproducible experimentation, and effective internal knowledge sharing across Databricks AI.
• Represent Databricks AI research externally through top‑tier publications, conference talks, and collaborations with academia and the open‑source community, with a focus on optimization and efficiency for large‑scale models.
• Mentor and develop talent, providing both technical guidance (research agendas, experimentation, implementation) and career development support for research scientists and engineers.

What You Will Do

• Define and lead independent research programs on foundation model efficiency, covering topics such as optimizer design, low‑precision training/inference, scalable model architectures, and efficient adaptation methods.
• Oversee the design and execution of large‑scale experiments, including benchmarking against state‑of‑the‑art methods and evaluating trade‑offs in quality, latency, throughput, and cost.
• Work hands‑on with your team on high‑quality, efficient code in Python and PyTorch for research implementation, rapid prototyping, and integration with Databricks’ production systems.
• Collaborate with distributed systems and infra teams to push the limits of distributed training, parallelism strategies, memory management, and hardware utilization for LLMs and other large models.
• Establish metrics, evaluation protocols, and best practices for scaling‑focused research (e.g., training efficiency, inference cost, energy usage) and drive their adoption across Databricks AI.
• Champion responsible and robust deployment of scaling innovations, ensuring that model behavior, reliability, and safety remain first‑class considerations.

What We Look For

• Proven ability to lead a research team to develop novel techniques for foundation model efficiency and related topics, with a strong track record of industry impact. 
• Deep expertise in at least one of: generative AI, LLMs, distributed ML systems, model optimization, or responsible AI, with a strong emphasis on scaling and efficiency for large‑scale neural networks.
• Hands on leadership - strong programming skills and demonstrated ability to write high‑quality, efficient code in Python and PyTorch for research implementation and experimentation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate research innovation into scalable product capabilities in partnership with product and engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing cross‑functional roadmaps and aligning research with business impact.

Nice to Have

• Prior work at the intersection of systems and ML, such as distributed training frameworks, compiler and kernel optimization for deep learning workloads, or memory‑/compute‑efficient model design.
• Strong industry and academic network in large‑scale ML, with ongoing collaborations or service (e.g., PC/area chair) at top conferences in ML and systems.
• A strong record of research impact—such as first‑author publications at top ML/systems conferences (e.g., ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, MLSys), influential open‑source contributions, or widely used deployed systems—especially in optimization or efficiency.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

The Senior Clinical Scientist, Oncology will leverage their scientific and medical expertise in oncology to lead and execute clinical development activities for one or more assigned studies in molecular residual disease monitoring. Acting as a key leader on study teams and departmental initiatives, they will drive the development of clinical strategy, incorporating insights from the competitive landscape and aligning with the broader company vision to advance innovative solutions in oncology.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Develop study concepts, including overall study design, schedule of assessments, objectives / endpoints, and eligibility criteria. Integrate feedback from internal and external stakeholders including senior leadership, key investigators, internal stakeholders, and regulatory agencies
• Contribute to authoring of the study protocol and provide critical feedback and review of supporting documents; help to respond to health authority feedback
• Provide protocol trainings to internal and CRO teams
• Work with the Clinical Operations team to contribute to the design of study-specific case report form (CRF), ensure CRFs are aligned with study requirements during user acceptance testing, and author study-specific sections of the CRF completion guidelines
• Ensure study manuals, etc. are aligned with the study protocol
• Seek input from key investigators on study design and methodology to ensure alignment with research objectives, and actively participate in pre-site selection discussions, site initiation visits, and investigator meetings to support successful study execution
• Serve as clinical science representative on internal and external meetings
• Contribute to and oversee real-time clinical data reviews (including oversight of CROs when applicable)
• Support advisory boards, steering committee meetings, consultant meetings and investigator meetings, including preparation and delivery of presentations
• Engage Natera medical directors, medical science liaisons for clinical projects, abstract writing and content creation
• Deliver presentations/posters at scientific meetings and company promotional events as needed; represent company at trade shows and medical conferences (<10% travel)
• This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and has access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job.
• Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire
• Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements
• Performs other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• PhD/RN/MS 
• At least 5-8 years experience as a Clinical Scientist preferred with preference given to oncology clinical strategy and execution
• Experience with randomized controlled trials preferred
• Experience with project management, clinical research and scientific writing
• Periodic travel (~15-20; includes overnight domestic and international travel to study sites, conferences, and meetings)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: 

• Demonstrated ability to identify problems and develop right-sized solutions 
• Fast learner who can develop in-depth technical understanding of Natera’s products 
• Exceptional communication skills (oral and written) and attention to detail 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently AND collaborate with team members
• Analytical thinker
• Motivated to be creative and brainstorm innovative solutions 
• Familiarity with Google and Microsoft suite of work products 
• A desire to work for a dynamic molecular diagnostic laboratory and manage growth for optimal success 

Position

Eikon is seeking a senior scientist to join its Advanced Imaging Research group, a multidisciplinary team of experimental and computational scientists focused on understanding and improving the capabilities of Eikon’s imaging platform. This person would execute experiments and interpret them by performing novel computational analysis and is ideal for a scientist who can combine deep analytical rigor with the practical understanding of executing high quality single molecule experiments. As a Senior Scientist, you will apply analytical methods to extract biological insight from your large-scale single molecule imaging datasets, while also partnering on experimental design, assay evaluation, and technology development. You will help determine how Eikon’s tools can be applied to new targets, new biological questions, and new technology areas that expand the impact of our platform in drug discovery applications.

About You

You are a scientifically curious scientist who enjoys using quantitative imaging and computational approaches to solve difficult biological problems. You are equally comfortable at the bench and at the command line, and you can navigate technical challenges across domains. You have a proven track record of building and thoughtfully applying new methods to gain deeper insight into a biological system, especially in imaging-based modalities. You are a strong communicator, comfortable engaging experts from other disciplines and working together to solve tough problems. You see the enduring value of bringing together scientific and engineering leaders to address grievous human illness.

What You’ll Do

• Work with single molecule imaging data at an unprecedented scale, using protein motion to derive biological insights.
• Become a champion of Eikon’s platform, leading technology development efforts to open new opportunities in drug discovery and development.
• Collaboratively plan, design, conduct and analyze experiments with experts in oncology, neurobiology, machine learning, image processing, analytical modeling, chemistry, hardware engineering, and more.
• Serve as a scientific resource to peers and collaborators by sharing best practices, supporting training, and helping others design interpretable experiments and analyses.
• Act as a functional expert to project teams and clearly communicate results and next steps to lead the team through development and use of single molecule experiments.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent experience in biophysics, molecular biology, cell biology, or related field with 5+ years of post-graduate research experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in quantitative single molecule imaging techniques such as single particle tracking, STORM/PALM, or single molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization, or spatial genomics.
• Experience with scientific Python and working with large, image-derived datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design, execute, and communicate results of complex experiments that support collaborative work.
• Experience in principled method and/or workflow development.
• Previous drug discovery experience is strongly preferred.

At Eikon, employee compensation also includes bonus and equity compensation, in addition to several generous benefit programs, including:​

• 401k plan with company matching​
• Medical (premiums covered by Eikon at 95%), dental and vision insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%)​
• Mental health and wellness benefits​
• Weeklong summer and winter holiday shutdowns​
• Generous paid time off and holiday policies​
• Life/AD&D Insurance (premiums covered by Eikon at 100%) and optional supplemental employee-paid life/AD&D policies ​
• Enhanced parental leave benefit​
• Daily subsidized lunch program when on-site​

The expected salary range for this role is $143,000 to $156,750 depending on skills, competency, and the market demand for your expertise.

About the role and team

We are looking for multiple passionate Research Scientists to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. The mission of the group is to create cutting-edge technology enabling next-generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our everyday life: end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist. We have a group composed of leading experts from top institutions and companies, recognized for their exceptional academic and industry contributions—including eight Best Paper awards at premier conferences and journals such as CVPR and ICRA. Learn more at appliedintuition.com/research.

Supported by industry-leading tools and infra, researchers can access millions of miles of data from large fleets, and deploy methods they develop into various autonomous and robotic systems including self-driving cars/trucks, autonomous mining/construction machines, humanoid robots and dexterous hands. In addition to your research contributions, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within our fast-paced and customer-focused culture. Improvements deployed to our system immediately help our customers with their programs and deliver value to our business.

We are open to all years of experience as long as the necessary requirements are met, including those with potential Tech Lead and Manager capacity.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Conduct research on 3D vision related topics including 3D/world-action foundation model, multi-modal pretraining, feed-forward Gaussian splatting, world foundation model with applications to autonomous driving, and fundamental topics on 3D vision and generation with broader applications
• Work closely with other Research Scientists and interns on research publications for submission to top-tier conferences
• Collaborate with Research Engineers and engineering teams to test and deploy algorithms to our autonomy and simulation products

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Strong research record in the fields of 3D vision, reconstruction and generation for autonomous systems and robotics, with publications in top-tier conferences or journals in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics
• MSc or PhD in machine learning and computer vision with autonomy and robotics applications or closely-related fields
• Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics for real-world systems
• Strong research skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
• Technical experience in: Python, Pytorch, computer vision, robotics systems, and distributed machine learning model training

Nice to have:

Hands-on experience in at least one of the following fields:

• 3D foundation model and pretraining
• Multi-modal foundation model
• Feed-forward Gaussian splatting and reconstruction
• World foundation model and generation
• 3D/multi-view end-to-end models for autonomous driving or robotics

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $126,000 - $423,000 USD annually.

About the role and team

We are looking for multiple passionate Research Scientists to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. The mission of the group is to create cutting-edge technology enabling next-generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our everyday life: end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist. We have a group composed of leading experts from top institutions and companies, recognized for their exceptional academic and industry contributions—including eight Best Paper awards at premier conferences and journals such as CVPR and ICRA. Learn more at appliedintuition.com/research.

Supported by industry-leading tools and infra, researchers can access millions of miles of data from large fleets, and deploy methods they develop into various autonomous and robotic systems including self-driving cars/trucks, autonomous mining/construction machines, humanoid robots and dexterous hands. In addition to your research contributions, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within our fast-paced and customer-focused culture. Improvements deployed to our system immediately help our customers with their programs and deliver value to our business.

We are open to all years of experience as long as the necessary requirements are met, including those with potential Tech Lead and Manager capacity.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Conduct research on reinforcement learning (RL) related topics including large-scale self-play RL, VLA post-training, large-scale closed-loop RL based on neural simulation with applications to autonomous driving
• Diving into fundamental topics on RL with broader applications and potential imitative behavior learning incorporation, and relevant topics such as reward learning
• Work closely with other Research Scientists and interns on research publications for submission to top-tier conferences
• Collaborate with Research Engineers and engineering teams to test and deploy algorithms to our autonomy and robotics products

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Strong research record in the fields of RL and VLA post-training for autonomous systems and robotics, with publications in top-tier conferences or journals in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics
• MSc or PhD in machine learning and computer vision with autonomy and robotics applications or closely-related fields
• Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics for real-world systems
• Strong research skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
• Technical experience in: Python, Pytorch, computer vision, robotics systems, and distributed machine learning model training

Nice to have:

Hands-on experience in at least one of the following fields:

• Self-play RL and imitation learning, behavior learning
• VLA post-training for autonomy or robotics
• Large-scale closed-loop RL in driving simulation
• Large-scale RL training infrastructure (Ray preferred)

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $126,000 - $423,000 USD annually.

About the role and team

We are looking for multiple passionate Research Scientists to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. The mission of the group is to create cutting-edge technology enabling next-generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our everyday life: end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist. We have a group composed of leading experts from top institutions and companies, recognized for their exceptional academic and industry contributions—including eight Best Paper awards at premier conferences and journals such as CVPR and ICRA. Learn more at appliedintuition.com/research.

Supported by industry-leading tools and infra, researchers can access millions of miles of data from large fleets, and deploy methods they develop into various autonomous and robotic systems including self-driving cars/trucks, autonomous mining/construction machines, humanoid robots and dexterous hands. In addition to your research contributions, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within our fast-paced and customer-focused culture. Improvements deployed to our system immediately help our customers with their programs and deliver value to our business.

We are open to all years of experience as long as the necessary requirements are met, including those with potential Tech Lead and Manager capacity.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Conduct research on pretraining world-action foundation model with various world modalities including vision and physics associated with ego actions, serving the purpose for both robot action and simulation world generation.
• Diving into relevant topics such as vision-physics modality association, feed-forward Gaussian splatting, world foundation model, human data incorporation, language modality, and spatial reasoning, deformable object modeling and simulation.
• related topics including 3D/world-action foundation model, multi-modal pretraining, feed-forward Gaussian splatting, world foundation model with applications to autonomous driving, and fundamental topics on 3D vision and generation with broader applications
• Work closely with other Research Scientists and interns on research publications for submission to top-tier conferences
• Collaborate with Research Engineers and engineering teams to test and deploy algorithms to our autonomy and simulation products

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Strong research record in the fields of 3D vision, reconstruction and generation for robotics and autonomous systems, with publications in top-tier conferences or journals in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics
• MSc or PhD in machine learning and computer vision with autonomy and robotics applications or closely-related fields
• Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics for real-world systems
• Strong research skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
• Technical experience in: Python, Pytorch, computer vision, robotics systems, and distributed machine learning model training

Nice to have:

Hands-on experience in at least one of the following fields:

• 3D foundation model and pretraining
• Multi-modal foundation model
• Feed-forward Gaussian splatting and reconstruction
• World foundation model and generation
• 3D/multi-view end-to-end models for autonomous driving or robotics
• Human data processing and incorporation

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $126,000 - $423,000 USD annually.

About the role and team

We are looking for multiple passionate Research Scientists to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. The mission of the group is to create cutting-edge technology enabling next-generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our everyday life: end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist. We have a group composed of leading experts from top institutions and companies, recognized for their exceptional academic and industry contributions—including eight Best Paper awards at premier conferences and journals such as CVPR and ICRA. Learn more at appliedintuition.com/research.

Supported by industry-leading tools and infra, researchers can access millions of miles of data from large fleets, and deploy methods they develop into various autonomous and robotic systems including self-driving cars/trucks, autonomous mining/construction machines, humanoid robots and dexterous hands. In addition to your research contributions, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within our fast-paced and customer-focused culture. Improvements deployed to our system immediately help our customers with their programs and deliver value to our business.

We are open to all years of experience as long as the necessary requirements are met, including those with potential Tech Lead and Manager capacity.

At Applied Intuition, you will:

• Conduct research on reinforcement learning (RL) related topics including large-scale closed-loop RL and VLA post-training with applications to robotics with emphasis on dexterous manipulation
• Diving into fundamental and relevant topics on RL with broader applications
• Work closely with other Research Scientists and interns on research publications for submission to top-tier conferences
• Collaborate with Research Engineers and engineering teams to test and deploy algorithms to our autonomy and robotics products

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Strong research record in the fields of RL and VLA post-training for robotics and autonomous systems, with publications in top-tier conferences or journals in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics
• MSc or PhD in machine learning and computer vision with autonomy and robotics applications or closely-related fields
• Passion for next-generation, scalable autonomy and robotics for real-world systems
• Strong research skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively on projects
• Technical experience in: Python, Pytorch, computer vision, robotics systems, and distributed machine learning model training

Nice to have:

Hands-on experience in at least one of the following fields:

• VLA post-training for autonomy or robotics
• Large-scale closed-loop RL in robotic simulation
• Large-scale RL training infrastructure

Compensation at Applied Intuition for eligible roles includes base salary, equity, and benefits. Base salary is a single component of the total compensation package, which may also include equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.

Applied Intuition pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum intended target base salary for new hire salaries for the position. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, interview performance, and the level and scope of the position.

Please reference the job posting’s subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the location listed is: $126,000 - $423,000 USD annually.