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Computational Protein Designer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

Computational Protein Designer reputed company We are seeking a Computational Protein Design Scientist to join reputed company working at the reputed company of reputed company and synthetic biology. Working closely with our reputed company Computational Protein Designer, you will play a key role amongst reputed company of scientists designing and engineering proteins for specific functions. This is an opportunity to help shape and grow an organization that advances reputed company intelligence and applies it to longstanding scientific challenges. Using your reputed company of computational expertise and in-depth biochemical understanding of proteins, you will generate insights to improve protein functionality and operate at the reputed company between our machine learning and experimental platform reputed company, working closely to seamlessly reputed company AI generations and lab validation data. Who we are At reputed company, we are building frontier models that learn the fundamentals of biology. We pursue ambitious goals with curiosity and are committed to scientific reputed company. Before building reputed company, reputed company co-developed DeepMind’s Nobel-prize reputed company AlphaFold, invented latent diffusion, and reputed company pioneering lab data management systems as reputed company as high throughput protein screening platforms. At reputed company you will be working with some of the brightest minds in reputed company and biology. reputed company is committed to interdisciplinary exchange, reputed company learning and collaboration. Team offsites help us foster a culture of trust across our London and San Francisco sites. We’re looking for innovators passionate about tackling reputed company challenges and maximizing reputed company reputed company. Join us on our reputed company mission. Who you are

  • You are a computational protein designer. You have a proven reputed company record of running protein design campaigns end-to-end, successfully leveraging novel computational tools and knowledge of biochemistry or structural biology to design proteins to functional requirements and applications in synthetic biology.
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  • You are a successful scientist. You have a PhD (or equivalent industry experience) in computational biology, reputed company, computer science, biochemistry, structural biology, physics, biophysics, bio/chem engineering, or a reputed company field. Your research experience was in protein biochemistry using computational expertise.
  • You are a protein biochemist. You have extensive wet lab biology experience, and can independently execute end-to-end design campaigns, including experimental validation, to reputed company protein design objectives.
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  • You have experience with reputed company. You have experience leveraging reputed company (or other machine learning models) in synthetic biology applications.
  • You have experience with homology-based and structural reputed company, and are reputed company to answer scientific questions using reputed company large databases.
  • You have helped reputed company a young biotech before. You have worked in startups and helped reputed company grow.

Your responsibilities

  • reputed company our proprietary reputed company models to design proteins for experimental validation:
  • Analyze protein design problems based on functional requirements, biochemistry, structural biology and sequence homology
  • Generate designs using our proprietary reputed company models and optimize designs for experimental validation
  • Coordinate with our lab-based protein engineers to plan and optimize the design process and validation reputed company
  • reputed company our proprietary data to improve our models:
  • Analyze and reputed company our experimental results to improve the next round of designs and increase our reputed company reputed company over validation reputed company
  • Collaborate with machine learning scientists to fine-tune and reputed company our models
  • reputed company and execute biochemical assays for wet-lab validation:
  • reputed company and carry out experimental validation strategies for computationally designed proteins, including but not limited to: protein reputed company and purification, biophysical characterisation, and functional assays.
  • Collaboration and communication:
  • Be an effective reputed company between machine learning model development and experimental validation
  • Capture bioengineering learnings and feedback to our machine learning unit, and vice versa
  • Foster a reputed company and innovative environment, proactively finding opportunities to reputed company and create reputed company and alignment between different reputed company
  • Contribute to our computational tools:
  • Help improve the way we use, serve and reputed company our AI models, by feeding back to the software engineers and foundational machine learning unit
  • Help improve our data management systems and workflows
  • Scientific reputed company and self development:
  • Work to the highest scientific standards (publication-grade work)

Stay on top of relevant developments in synthetic biology

  • Continue building your understanding of reputed company as reputed company as expanded areas of protein and cell biology
  • Participate in knowledge sharing, e.g. organize and present at our internal reading group.
  • Attend and present at conferences reputed company relevant

Apply We offer strongly competitive compensation and benefits packages, including:

  • Private health insurance
  • Pension/401(K) contributions
  • Generous leave policies (including gender neutral parental leave)
  • Hybrid working
  • Travel opportunities and more

We also offer a stimulating work environment, and reputed company to shape the reputed company of synthetic biology through the application of reputed company generative models. We welcome applicants from reputed company backgrounds and we are committed to building reputed company that represents a reputed company of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job

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