Senior Applied Research Scientist, Deep Learning for RNA

Founded in 2014, with offices across Europe, Africa, and the USA, InstaDeep is today a world leader in biological and decision-making AI products for the Enterprise. InstaDeep has been named among the Top 100 global AI startups for three consecutive years by CB Insights, as well as one of the 100 most promising B2B companies in Europe by Sifted. By working closely with a broad spectrum of high-quality clients we have created an environment that is always exciting, challenging, and pushes you to thrive. We are proud to partner with firms such as Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Intel, and our parent company BioNTech SE, and world-class universities such as MIT, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London.
Working hand-in-hand with laboratory teams at BioNTech, our RNA research group is advancing the state-of-the art in deep learning applied to RNA science. Our expertise is shared across the company to enable BioNTech to maintain their world leading position in the field of RNA therapeutics. As a Senior Research Scientist you will take a lead role in this mission. Our group’s diverse, expert team, top-tier compute resources, and dedicated high-throughput capacity in BioNTech’s laboratories combine to provide an unparalleled opportunity in the mission to develop life-changing treatments. We are passionate about using science to help people and advance human knowledge. Our culture is highly collaborative and focuses on team success over individual achievement.

Role Responsibilities

• Advance the state-of-the-art in RNA science using deep learning.
• Ensure the team maintains leading expertise including knowledge of emerging literature.
• Guide research agendas, planning, and interpretation of results.
• Present findings effectively to external and internal stakeholders.
• Provide an expert reference on deep learning and how it may be applied to biological tasks.
• Undertake other activities in biological machine learning as required.

Essential Skills

• Track record of successful self-directed deep learning research, for example in postdoctoral research or as a group leader. 3 or more years of post-PhD experience or equivalent.
• Demonstrated research impact, for example through the publication of high impact scientific papers or successfully commercialised patents.
• Practical experience developing state-of-the-art deep learning models and expert understanding of deep learning theory.
• Ability to independently plan and communicate research programmes.
• Ability to write high quality code in Python.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Desirable Skills

• Previous experience in deep learning applied to RNA science.
• Experience leading teams in a research context.
• Experience developing foundation sequence models.
• Experience developing generative models for discrete data.
• Research experience in prediction of polynucleotide or protein structure.
• Experience communicating research with executive or public audiences.

Right to work: Please note you will require the legal right to work in the location you are applying for.
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