Xaira Therapeutics is looking to leverage AI to transform drug discovery and development by creating generative AI models for protein and antibody therapeutics, and foundation models for biology and disease to address historically hard-to-drug molecular targets and improve patient stratification, ultimately aiming to identify novel therapies and improve success in drug development.
Requirements
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, and experience with relevant libraries, toolchain and frameworks for AI model development.
- Strong understanding of deep learning fundamentals, including neural network architectures, optimization techniques, and evaluation metrics.
- Familiarity with drug discovery processes, computational chemistry, or bioinformatics is desirable.
- Experience solving complex problems and comparing alternative solutions, tradeoffs, and diverse points of view to determine a path forward.
- Minimum of two years of industry experience in AI, machine learning, or related roles
- track record of successfully implementing and deploying AI models in production environments
- Publication track record at conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.
Responsibilities
- collaborate closely with AI scientists, engineers, and drug discovery experts to help develop AI models to accelerate the identification and development of novel therapeutics.
- leverage cutting-edge AI techniques to address pressing challenges in healthcare and contribute to improving human health globally.
- implementing and deploying AI models in production environments.
- development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics
- developing foundation models for biology and disease
- enable better target elucidation and patient stratification
- continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for tackling complex challenges in healthcare.
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work effectively in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary team environment.
- Experience working and communicating cross-functionally on an interdisciplinary team.
- The role is open to the following locations: San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and London.
