Senior Staff 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
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