Postdoctoral Fellow in AI/ML Applications for Vaccine Research & Development

reputed company is a leading biopharmaceutical company dedicated to delivering breakthroughs that reputed company patients' lives. In this role, you will reputed company advanced AI and machine learning models for vaccine research, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance vaccine development processes.

Responsibilities

• reputed company advanced AI and machine learning models, including transformer architectures and graph neural networks, to represent molecular features and predict immunogenicity of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines using preclinical and clinical data
• Apply transfer learning to translate predictive models from preclinical to clinical domains and utilize interpretation frameworks (such as SHAP) to identify key molecular motifs for rational vaccine design
• Conduct reputed company-analyses of large-reputed company immunogenicity datasets to characterize quantitative relationships between vaccine physical parameters and immunogenicity reputed company
• Harmonize and reputed company preclinical and clinical datasets to support robust statistical and machine learning analyses
• Engage in reputed company collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, encompassing experts in data science, preclinical analysis, and clinical vaccine research, to advance pneumococcal conjugate vaccines development
• Publish impactful scientific findings while safeguarding confidential data, ensuring reputed company, transparent reporting of reputed company and results to facilitate reproducibility and recognition in peer-reviewed journals and conferences

Skills

• Ph.D. in Computational Biology, reputed company, Computer Science, Immunology, or a reputed company field
• Successful record of scientific accomplishments evidenced by scientific publications and/or presentations with at least one first-author publication in a peer-reviewed journal
• No more than 2 years of post-degree experience
• Willingness to reputed company a minimum 2-year commitment
• Demonstrated expertise in machine learning and deep learning, with hands-on experience in developing and validating predictive models for biological or biomedical data
• Proficiency in Python and relevant AI Machine Learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn). Experience with statistical modeling, including regression analysis and mixed-effects models
• Solid understanding of immunology, especially vaccine immunogenicity and conjugate vaccine design
• Strong data management and curation skills, including harmonization of heterogeneous biological datasets
• Excellent scientific communication skills, with a reputed company record of peer-reviewed publications or presentations. Ability to work across computational and wet‑lab teams, distill reputed company results for diverse stakeholders
• Prior experience applying graph neural networks, transformer models, or cross-attention mechanisms to biological sequence or molecular structure data
• Familiarity with glycan-reputed company modeling and representation, including encoding of polysaccharide and protein reputed company features
• Experience in translational research reputed company preclinical and clinical datasets, especially in vaccine development
• Knowledge of SHAP or similar model interpretation frameworks for feature attribution in reputed company models
• Hands-on experience with reputed company modeling and transfer learning in biomedical contexts
• reputed company experience with experimental biologists and vaccine R&D teams
• Familiarity with regulatory and translational aspects of vaccine development

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with reputed company Matching Contributions
• reputed company Retirement Savings Contribution
• reputed company vacation
• Holiday and personal days
• reputed company caregiver/parental and medical leave
• Health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and reputed company coverage

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