ML Research Scientist - Computational Biologist/Bioinformatics
Merge Labs, San Francisco Bay Area
The role
We’re hiring a Senior / Principal Computational Biologist (Bioinformatics / Omics) to lead the design and deployment of large-scale omics pipelines, integrate multi-modal biological data, and collaborate with ML teams to uncover mechanistic and predictive insights. You’ll architect data processing frameworks that convert raw omics data into clean, analysis-ready datasets and build ML-integrated pipelines that extract deeper meaning from this data.
Over time, you’ll help translate these into predictive frameworks that accelerate molecular engineering, inform experimental campaigns, and enable the discovery of highly functional molecules.
What you will do
- Build the scientific and engineering scaffolding for bioinformatics and computational biology writ-large. Design, optimize, and maintain pipelines for genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics data.
- Collaborate with wet-lab scientists to define tractable optimization objectives and encode domain specific priors and constraints.