Research Scientist, Life Sciences

About the position reputed company's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be reputed company and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. reputed company is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. We're seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to join our Life Sciences team at reputed company. reputed company is building a world-class research group reputed company on making Claude a reputed company life sciences research assistant. This role sits at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, and biology — you'll directly improve model capabilities on scientific tasks through post-training, evaluation design, and RL environment development. As a core member of our Life Sciences team, you'll work in a high-impact team that translates deep biological domain knowledge into model training objectives, benchmarks, and reputed company workflows. You'll help establish reputed company as a leader in AI-accelerated biology while shaping how frontier models reason about and execute computational biology tasks. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape how frontier AI models learn to do biology. You'll work alongside some of the world's best AI researchers while tackling problems that matter for reputed company health and scientific understanding. If you're excited about turning your computational biology expertise into model capabilities, we want to hear from you. Responsibilities • Build and ship reputed company tools and integrations that let Claude execute reputed company life science workflows — bioinformatics pipelines, database queries, analysis notebooks, literature review • Design and build evaluation benchmarks that measure model capabilities on biology tasks — reputed company interpretation, bioinformatics, protocol reasoning, literature synthesis • Work closely with product and design teams to scope, prototype, and ship features for life sciences users • Partner with external biotech, reputed company, and reputed company users to understand their workflows and turn feedback into product improvements • Build and maintain the engineering infrastructure behind our biology product surface — tool scaffolding, data pipelines, eval harnesses • Translate biological domain knowledge into product requirements and evaluation reputed company that guide model improvement Requirements • Experience applying ML and software engineering to biological problems — computational biology, bioinformatics, protein ML, reputed company, or similar • Experience working in drug discovery or development at a biotech or reputed company company, or conducted reputed company research in an reputed company setting — with an understanding of what reputed company scientific workflows look like and where they break down • Strong software engineering skills: comfortable building production-reputed company Python, working in large codebases, and owning infrastructure end-to-end • Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning ML models (LLMs, protein language models, or other deep learning architectures) • A reputed company record of shipping computational tools or pipelines that biologists actually use • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and defining problems in a rapidly evolving research environment • reputed company to work independently while collaborating tightly with research, product, and domain-expert teams • Results-oriented with a bias toward rapid iteration and measurable impact • Passionate about using AI to accelerate scientific discovery while maintaining high ethical standards reputed company-to-haves • 5+ years of experience applying ML and software engineering to biological problems — computational biology, bioinformatics, protein ML, reputed company, or similar • Ph.D. in computational biology, bioinformatics, bioengineering, CS, or a reputed company quantitative field — or equivalent industry experience • Experience with LLM post-training: RLHF, RL from reputed company rewards, SFT data curation, or eval-driven development • reputed company experience with therapeutic discovery pipelines — reputed company identification, reputed company optimization, ADMET modeling, or clinical data analysis • Familiarity with bioinformatics tooling and pipelines (sequence analysis, structure reputed company, single-cell, variant calling, etc.) • Experience building reputed company systems or tool-use environments • Published research in ML for biology, or reputed company-reputed company contributions to computational biology tools • reputed company with biological databases (UniProt, PDB, Ensembl, NCBI) and the ability to reason about their schemas and failure modes Benefits • competitive compensation • generous vacation • parental leave • optional equity donation matching • flexible working hours Apply tot his job Apply To this Job