Principal Deep Learning Scientist

Cambridge, MA USA

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Flagship Pioneering, Inc.

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Title: Principal Deep Learning (AI) Scientist

What if…you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies in order to transform health care and sustainability?

Radial Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, well-funded, early-stage biotechnology company leveraging novel insights in RNA biology. Radial Therapeutics’s proprietary platform identifies novel disease targets and develops new therapeutic modalities targeting RNA, providing new strategies to treat or cure a range of diseases including rare genetic diseases, neurological diseases, and cancers.

Radial Therapeutics, Inc. was founded in Flagship’s venture creation engine, where companies such as Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), and Editas Medicines (NASDAQ: EDIT) were conceived and created.  Since Flagship’s founding in 2000, the firm has originated and fostered the development of more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $34 billion in aggregate value, 500+ issued patents, and more than 50 clinical trials for novel therapeutic agents.  

The Position

The successful candidate will develop and apply cutting-edge machine learning (ML) paradigms across RNA biology and small molecule chemistry to narrow the search space and increase the probability of discovering novel RNA therapeutics. This position is ideal for someone with broad and deep expertise in machine learning, deep learning and computational sciences.

Specific Responsibilities

  • Translate drug discovery challenges into ML problems
  • Maximize value of public and proprietary data assets
  • Develop and prototype novel ML algorithms for impactful drug discovery problems
  • Train and validate large deep learning models at scale
  • Leverage open source deep learning models and transfer learning to reduce time to solution
  • Speed up training of large deep learning models using clusters of CPUs and GPUs
  • Develop optimized data pipelines to fuel deep learning models
  • Collaborate closely with experimental biologists, chemists and computational biologists to focus efforts on impactful problems
  • Communicate findings to a multi-disciplinary audience

Required Qualifications

  • PhD in applied mathematics, computer science and other quantitative disciplines with a strong focus in machine learning and deep learning
  • Proven track record of innovation in applied mathematics, data science and ML
  • 5-10+ years hands-on experience in implementing, evaluating and tuning hyperparameters for large deep learning models such as DNNs, CNNs, RNNs, Transformers and VAEs as well as for tree-based ML models
  • Experience with self-supervised and auto-regressive natural language processing models such as BERT and GPT2
  • Strong expertise in multiple programming paradigms and software libraries such Python, Tensorflow (or Pytorch), Keras, Pandas, Sklearn, Hugging Face
  • Experience using AWS services such as S3, EC2, ECS, AWS Batch, Sagemaker to reduce runtime to train and evaluate deep learning models
  • Experience in biotech/pharma is not required but experience in solving real world problems using deep learning in a multidisciplinary setting is a plus
  • Foundational understanding of biology and chemistry is a plus
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

More About Flagship Pioneering 

We are creative optimists and we would love for you to consider joining our team!  See all our open opportunities across Flagship Pioneering’s Ecosystem! 

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category life sciences companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has applied a unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $180 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship is backed by more than $4.4 billion of aggregate capital commitments, of which over $1.9 billion has been deployed toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $10 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. The current Flagship ecosystem comprises 41 transformative companies, including:  Axcella Health (NASDAQ: AXLA), Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO),  Foghorn Therapeutics, Indigo Ag, Kaleido Biosciences (NASDAQ: KLDO), Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), Sana Biotechnology, Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MCRB), and Syros Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SYRS).  

We believe pioneering is best done by teams, and that it is a process that can be taught, learned, and replicated.  Learn more about our Company Creation Model

Can Breakthrough Innovations Be Made Systematically? A Conversation With Noubar Afeyan, Flagship Pioneering’s CEO.  

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies:  Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto. 

Tags: AWS BERT Biology Chemistry Computer Science Data pipelines Deep Learning Drug discovery EC2 ECS GPT GPT-2 Keras Machine Learning Mathematics ML models NLP Open Source Pandas PhD Pipelines Python PyTorch Ruby SageMaker Scikit-learn TensorFlow Transformers

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