Staff Scientist
BCC-NIH, Bethesda MD +1
About the job
Overview
Black Canyon Consulting is seeking a Staff Scientist to work with a Principal Investigatory in the National Institutes of Health at the National Library of Medicine to support the development of high-fidelity artificial intelligence models designed to decode the functional landscape of the human and mouse genomes. This effort will leverage Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) reference assemblies to advance understanding of gene regulation, particularly within complex and repetitive genomic regions.
This position requires a unique combination of computational genomics expertise, machine learning proficiency, and scalable software engineering capabilities to support large-scale data integration and model development.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of AI-driven models for gene regulation analysis
- Architect and scale a TREDNet-based framework for cloud-native execution
- Optimize models for distributed, multi-GPU training environments
- Integrate and analyze large-scale genomic and epigenomic datasets, including:
- ENCODE / modENCODE
- NIH Roadmap Epigenomics