Lila Sciences
Senior/Principal ML Scientist, Translational Biology
San Francisco, CA USA · Principal · Full-time
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About the role
- Your Impact at LILA Lila is redefining the future of biomedicine by combining large-scale automated data generation with scientific superintelligence.
- What has actually been established about how this intervention is meant to work, and what has only been assumed.
- Human genetics, expression, cohort and prior-trial evidence all bear on whether the biology that works in a model system is present, and rate-limiting, in the population being treated.
Responsibilities
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
- Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
Nice to have
- Take the structured biological evidence and mechanistic models generated elsewhere in the group and turn them into an assessment of whether an intervention's proposed mechanism is established, assumed, or unexamined.
- Ground mechanism in human data.
- Run them yourself and report honestly when a contribution adds nothing.
- Hands-on ML and data analysis for translational medicine.
- substantial experience analyzing human genetic, multi-omic, cohort, trial or real-world data in reproducible pipelines.
- Mechanistic reasoning about therapeutic interventions.
- Clinical development fluency.
- Evidence judgment and a systems instinct.
Compensation
- We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.
- International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions
- Expected Base Salary Range
- $268,000 - $384,000 USD
- USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.
Benefits
- U.S. Benefits.
- Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- employer-paid life and disability insurance
- flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
- paid parental leave
- an educational assistance program
- commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
- International Benefits.
- Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region.
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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