Insitro
Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Imaging
South San Francisco, CA · Senior
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About the role
- At insitro, we use machine learning to derive clinically relevant insights from rich datasets generated in-house.
- You will be joining a vibrant biotech startup that is in a high growth phase, with promising multiple pre-clinical drug targets in areas such as ALS and metabolic disease.
Responsibilities
- Partner with experimental and computational biologists to design, troubleshoot, and optimize high-throughput imaging-based experiments and workflows
- Work closely with software engineers to build robust and well-tested image analysis workflows, able to be used by experimental and computational biologists with minimal direct support
- Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds and job functions on a daily basis
- Support to attend professional conferences that are meaningful to your career growth and role's responsibilities
- We rely on these data to develop ML-driven, predictive disease models that uncover underlying biologic state and elucidate critical drivers of disease.
- These powerful models rely on extensive biological and computational infrastructure and allow insitro to advance novel targets and patient biomarkers, design therapeutics and inform clinical strategy. insitro is advancing a wholly owned and partnered pipeline of insights and therapeutics in neuroscience and metabolism.
- Since launching in 2018, insitro has raised over $700 million from top tech, biotech and crossover investors, and from collaborations with pharmaceutical partners.
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to identify, understand, and find novel applications of state-of-the-art ML/CV methods from literature or other sources
Nice to have
- Demonstrated ability to write software in a team, industry experience or substantial involvement with open source projects.
- Experience modeling with video or imaging time-series datasets
- Experience with microscopy hardware, and/or image data acquisition in other contexts
- Understanding of optical physics, resolution, numerical aperture, etc.
- Familiarity with cloud computing services (e.g., AWS or Azure)
- Experience with database languages (e.g., SQL)
Skills
- Imaging based phenotyping of in-vitro biology is at the heart of insitro's efforts to accelerate drug development.
- A lot can change in this exciting phase, providing many opportunities for significant impact.
Compensation
- Our target starting salary for successful US-based applicants for this role is $215,000 - $235,000.
- To determine starting pay, we consider multiple job-related factors including a candidate's skills, education and experience, market demand, business needs, and internal parity.
- This role is eligible for participation in our Annual Performance Bonus Plan (based on company targets by role level and annual company performance) and our Equity Incentive Plan, subject to the terms of those plans and associated policies.
Benefits
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage as well as mental health and well-being support
- Open, flexible vacation policy
- Paid parental leave of at least 16 weeks to support parents who give birth, and 10 weeks for a new parent (inclusive of birth, adoption, fostering, etc)
- New hire stipend for home office setup
- Monthly cell phone & internet stipend
- Identify, understand, develop, and deploy novel computer vision and machine learning methods such as segmentation, feature extraction, and representation learning to extract features from microscopy image datasets
- Ph.D. in computer vision, machine learning, computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., a Master's degree and 2+ years of relevant industry experience)
- Access to a free commuter bus network that provides transport to and from our South San Francisco HQ from locations all around the Bay Area
Company info
- We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion need to be at the foundation of our culture.
Equal opportunity
- insitro is an equal opportunity employer.
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