Computational Scientist

South San Francisco, CA, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 3 hours ago
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Skills

  • Management
  • Collaboration
  • Project Management
  • Biotechnology
  • Research
  • Biology
  • Computational Science
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Training
  • Deep Learning
  • PyTorch
  • Statistics
  • Python
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • Image Analysis

Summary

Job Title: Computational Scientist
Job Location: South San Francisco, California, 94080 (Onsite)
Contract Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Key Responsibilities:
Multimodal perturbation datasets are becoming increasingly large and available, and understanding which data contribute most to model performance is an increasingly important question.
The Regev lab has generated a large multimodal perturbation dataset.
The contractor will train and evaluate models on this data to characterize how different portions of the dataset contribute to model learning, and will evaluate model performance and model outputs against experimental data.

Contract Highlights:
Full time, 40 hours per week, for an initial term of 12-months.
Ownership of a clearly scoped, business-critical workstream with defined deliverables.
Direct collaboration with the project lead and access to an established, documented analysis codebase and cluster compute.
Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.

Required Education:
PhD in a computational discipline, or equivalent research experience
Preferred majors: Computational Biology, Computational Sciences, Statistics or Machine Learning

Required skills:
Training and evaluating deep learning models in PyTorch, including designing and executing controlled train/test split experiments on a SLURM cluster.
Strong applied statistics
Proficient scientific Python (numpy, pandas, scanpy/anndata) and reproducible, documented analysis practice.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with single-cell transcriptomics
Experience with analysis of CRISPR perturbation screens (perturb-seq or similar).
Familiarity with representation learning
Familiarity with image analysis
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  • Dice Id: 10105282
  • Position Id: 893805
  • Posted 1 day ago

Company Info

About Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC

Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software, Mobile, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product + UX and Functional.

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