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Novartis

Innovation Postdoctoral Fellow, Data Science & AI Vision Foundation Models for Cellular Imaging in AI Drug Discovery

San Diego · Full-time

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About the role

  • As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, you will join the Discovery Sciences Data Science (DSc DS) group in Basel, Cambridge, or San Diego and pursue an innovative research project at the forefront of biomedical science and drug discovery.
  • You will work alongside leading scientists in a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary environment while gaining exposure to the broader ecosystem that translates scientific discovery into medicines.
  • This fellowship aims to advance representation learning for high-content cellular imaging to accelerate AI-powered phenotypic drug discovery across Novartis.

Responsibilities

  • Design robust evaluation protocols that measure how well models generalize to unseen assays, perturbations, cell types, and imaging conditions.
  • Build scalable training and inference pipelines across high-performance computing and cloud infrastructure with clean, reproducible, and well-documented code.
  • Ability to formulate and drive independent research questions

Requirements

  • PhD (or equivalent doctoral degree) in a relevant scientific discipline completed prior to the fellowship start date.
  • Experience designing benchmarking and evaluation protocols for model generalization.
  • Expertise in high-content or biomedical imaging (e.g., Cell Painting, phenomics, digital pathology) and channel-adaptive or multimodal architectures.
  • Experience with distributed training on HPC clusters, reproducible ML pipelines on cloud infrastructure, and model-tracking tools such as MLflow

Skills

  • Guidance from accomplished scientific leaders and subject matter experts
  • Access to advanced technologies, platforms, and research capabilities
  • Collaboration across disciplines and organizational boundaries
  • A global and diverse community of postdoctoral fellows

Compensation

  • $57,800.00 - $107,300.00
  • The starting salary for this position is 87,000 USD per year.

Benefits

  • US-based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits.
  • In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.
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Equal opportunity

  • The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers.
  • Accessibility and reasonable accommodations
  • The Novartis Group of Companies are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.
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Visa & Work Authorization

  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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