Senior Computational and Experimental Scientist
About the Role
Join a lean team at an AI-driven protein design biotech startup and own the computational and experimental workflows behind its protein and peptide design platform. You will connect model development, customer use, laboratory testing, and kinetic data to improve designs and support platform growth.
What You'll Do
Improve protein and peptide design, diffusion, and folding models through architectural refinements, hierarchical reasoning, and active learning.
Operate and refine an inference platform at scale, investigate user behavior and churn, and help convert free-tier users into paying customers.
Write, debug, and deploy production protocols for liquid-handling robots and manage screening automation and instrumentation.
Design and run BLI and SPR assays end to end, including immobilization, regeneration, referencing, dilution series, kinetic fitting, and quality control.
Diagnose assay and model failures, including mass transport, nonspecific binding, aggregation, avidity, and data quality issues.
Close the design-make-test-model loop by designing sequences, measuring kinetics, updating models, and iterating on improved candidates.
