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Machine Learning Scientist

South San Francisco, CA 94080

Posted: 02/25/2026 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Research and Discovery Job Number: 12551 Pay Rate: $35.00 - $47.00 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.

Overview:

In the Structure and Simulation team within Prescient Design, we develop modern computational methods to accelerate therapeutic discovery across Research and Early Development. Methods we deploy propose new molecules, score designs to prioritize the most promising compounds, generate biological hypotheses through exploratory simulation, accelerate physics-based calculations, and more.

We are seeking a highly motivated Machine Learning Scientist to join our team to develop new scientific methodology and produce and deploy workflows usable by computational and ultimately wet-lab scientists. The successful candidate will collaborate extensively with computational and experimental researchers within Prescient Design and across gRED to advance our scientific understanding of biomolecules.

The Role:
  • Work as a machine learning scientist to develop new scientific methodology for the understanding, scoring, ranking, generation, and design of biomolecules, especially proteins.
  • Work as an engineer of scientific software, to produce usable, deployable code for these new methods to power the lab-in-the-loop.
  • Use software best practices (version control, testing, modular code development, documentation, etc.) to collaborate on a large codebase with our team of methods developers.
  • Deploy workflows on HPC and cloud platforms and deliver user-friendly web-based interfaces to medicinal chemists across organization.

Job Requirements

Desired Qualifications:
  • BS, MS, or PhD degree in a life or physical science or a computational field.
  • Expert in Python and experience with scientific software development.
  • Experience with deploying software workflows on cloud and/or HPC platforms.
  • Experience working on collaborative code bases, including merge requests, code review, writing tests etc.
  • Highly-motivated and independent self starter that is eager to collaborate.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Basic understanding of modern machine learning methods including predictive models, generative models, and active learning as applied to molecular generation and optimization.

Additional Qualifications:
  • Candidates may additionally have, but are not required to have:
  • Public portfolio of projects available on GitHub.
  • Experience with Rosetta, OpenMM, and/or computational chemistry codes.
  • 3+ years of industry experience.
  • Extensive experience working with large chemical and biological datasets, including graph, sequence, and structure-based data.

Meet Your Recruiter

Jay Hite
Recruiter, Account Manager

As a Recruiter at Compass, Jay enjoys meeting job seekers and helping them to find new and exciting opportunities. He enjoys the process of getting to know candidates and learning all about their experience and what their future goals are. Jay feels the excitement of his candidates and is passionate about helping to find a fit both culturally and professionally. 

When Jay isn’t working, he enjoys bike rides, trying out new foods, tequila tasting and watching movies.  

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