Principal AI Scientist Polytope Bio
A 501(c)(3) science-and-technology research institute/foundation operating direct Neuro-AI research, life-sciences programs through Radial, and an open-science residency program.
About Astera Institute
Astera Institute supports and operates open public-goods work for science and technology. Its current activities include neuroscience-informed AGI research, AI-enabled life-sciences programs, open datasets and publishing infrastructure, and residencies for early-stage projects.
Skills
About the Role
You will co-direct the AI research program with the founder, shaping research direction and technical execution. You will develop reinforcement-learning post-training methods, build and debug model training infrastructure and evaluation metrics, and align biological measurements with model learning.
Requirements
- Machine learning
- Computational biology
- Model training
- Diffusion model
- Transformer
- Reinforcement learning
- Preference optimization
- Deep learning
Responsibilities
- Co-direct the research program with the founder
- Develop reinforcement-learning feedback loops for biological language models
- Architect model training infrastructure
- Build, run, and debug models, training loops, and evaluation metrics
- Partner with the experimental team to align measurements and model learning
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Company-sponsored retirement plan
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- Dedicated GPU resources