Flagshippioneeringinc

Flagshippioneeringinc

Head of AI/ML Therapeutic Design

Cambridge, MA USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago
Machine LearningDeep LearningNLPBioinformaticsMolecular BiologyLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Working closely with cross-functional drug discovery teams, you and your team will translate advances in AI/ML into impactful therapies by delivering actionable molecule candidates.
  • Architect and train new models with a clear path towards program impact and differentiation. - Strategic Vision: Define the AI strategy and deployment for Metaphore.
  • Foster a culture of engineering rigor, scientific curiosity, and bold, tech-first innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Scientific & Technical Leadership: Deploy state-of-the-art generative models for de novo protein design, and molecule screening, and optimization, focusing on timely drug discovery impact.
  • Team Building & Mentorship: Recruit, mentor, and lead a multidisciplinary team of computational scientists.
  • Portfolio Impact: Drive the computational discovery of novel therapeutic candidates across multiple modalities, advancing our internal pipeline and strategic partnerships (such as our active pharma collaborations).
  • Cultivate partnerships with leading tech providers, cloud computing partners, and academic institutions.
  • Deploy state-of-the-art generative models for de novo protein design, and molecule screening, and optimization, focusing on timely drug discovery impact.
  • Drive the computational discovery of novel therapeutic candidates across multiple modalities, advancing our internal pipeline and strategic partnerships (such as our active pharma collaborations).
  • Our computationally driven MIMIC™ platform is the world's first structure-independent sequence-to-function platform for protein design.
  • Metaphore is seeking an exceptional, execution-driven scientist and leader to serve as Head of AI/ML Therapeutic Design, driving the next frontier of AI-powered biologics.
  • This role offers a unique opportunity to drive our integrated discovery platform end-to-end and help bring transformative therapeutics from concept to clinic.
  • Oversee at-scale compute infrastructure and propose collaborative data acquisition strategies to continuously train, evaluate, and optimize our models while optimizing costs and program impact.

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated experience leveraging AI/ML, reproducibly and at scale, delivering impact in drug discovery contexts.
  • Demonstrated experience with modern engineering architectures to facilitate rapid and scalable implementation and deployment of AI/ML capabilities.

Skills

  • Consistently demonstrate rapid learning and iterative improvements to our AI/ML platform across stakeholders.

Benefits

  • In this role, you will define the vision and long-term strategy for Metaphore's AI/ML platform while leading a team of experts to build a scalable, high‑performance AI/ML engine.

Company info

  • Metaphore Biotechnologies is a Flagship Pioneering-founded company focused on creating a new class of functional biological therapeutics.
  • Inspired by nature, our mission is to transform patient lives by unlocking the power of biological therapeutics with a new mimic-discovery platform.

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