Senior Staff AI Scientist Polytope Bio
Astera Institute is an active nonprofit research institute and foundation that operates in-house neuroscience-informed AI research and funds, operates, and supports open-science programs and public goods.
About Astera Institute
Astera operates three divisions: Neuro-AI, Radial life-sciences research, and its Foundation. Its AI work pursues neuroscience-informed approaches to artificial general intelligence, while its foundation and Radial activities support open scientific infrastructure, datasets, research programs, and residencies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and execute the scientific vision with the technical founder and team. You will create reinforcement-learning post-training methods, architect model-training infrastructure, build and debug models and evaluation metrics, and coordinate biological measurements with model learning.
Requirements
- Machine learning
- Computational biology
- Model training
- Diffusion model
- Transformer
- Reinforcement learning
- Preference optimization
- Deep learning
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the scientific vision
- 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