Xaira Therapeutics

Xaira Therapeutics

AI in Residence

South San Francisco, California, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 29 days ago
Machine LearningLLMsBioinformaticsResearchExperimental DesignAnimal StudiesLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • About Xaira Therapeutics Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and advance ML models for biological, preclinical, and translational datasets (e.g., multimodal omics, imaging, text, assay data)
  • Design and implement scalable pipelines for data curation, training, evaluation, and inference integrated into discovery workflows
  • Own projects end-to-end: problem framing → prototyping → validation → deployment
  • Rigor: careful experimental design, ablations, error analysis, and honest reporting
  • Collaborative execution with scientific and engineering partners
  • Mentorship & Support

Nice to have

  • Contribute technical leadership by proposing new directions, shaping platform capabilities, and raising engineering/research standards through collaboration
  • Recent MS or PhD graduates (or equivalent research experience) in ML/AI, computational biology, biomedical engineering, or related fields
  • Evidence of research excellence through high-quality publications or artifacts.
  • Top venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL
  • Nature Methods, Cell Systems) are a plus, but strong preprints, open-source contributions, or shipped systems with demonstrated impact are equally compelling
  • Dedicated technical mentor, plus structured feedback from senior AI, engineering, and scientific leadership

Skills

  • About Xaira Therapeutics
  • Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development.
  • Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development.
  • Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.
  • AI in Residence
  • Residents join a small cohort working on high-impact AI efforts across Xaira.
  • This is hands-on, system-level work with real scientific consequence.
  • Foundation / representation models over multimodal biological and translational data

Compensation

  • The expected monthly compensation range is $10,000-$15,000, depending on experience and qualifications.
  • We are open to higher compensation for candidates with exceptional experience or impact.

Benefits

  • You leave behind maintainable systems (tests, documentation, monitoring) that others can build on

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