Research Scientist, EvolutionaryScale

Artificial Intelligence

Salary not provided

Python

PyTorch

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2+ days a week in office

Frontier AI models for biology

Open for applications

Frontier AI models for biology

1-20 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceBiologySaaSScience

Open for applications

Salary not provided

Python

PyTorch

Mid and Senior level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2+ days a week in office

1-20 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceBiologySaaSScience

Company mission

To develop artificial intelligence to understand biology for the benefit of human health and society.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

To continue to move the field forward in this emerging area, we prioritize individuals who have shown excellence and creativity in their respective domains over specific domain expertise
Having both biology and AI expertise is great, but not a requirement
Proficiency in programming languages such as Python
PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
3+ years of experience implementing deep learning models with pytorch or equivalent libraries
Ability to plan and run ML experiments, analyze and communicate outcomes

What the job involves

Our team bridges the gap between deep research and product development
We work together as a team to solve big research challenges, and value the ability to communicate and collaborate well
Research Engineers and Researcher Scientists are both researchers, and we assign equal value to both roles without hierarchy between them
We expect our technical staff to contribute to both research and engineering, while team members can sometimes be stronger at one or the other
The EvolutionaryScale team is based in San Francisco and New York
Understand the state of the art in AI or biology and move forward at least one of those fields
Contribute to designing and executing the long term research roadmap for the company
Drive the research for a portion of the company’s foundation model efforts and lead projects in that area; or
Collaborate directly with researchers, engineers, and scientists at the company’s partners (clients or academic partners) to deploy the company’s technology and research towards the partner’s business. Be effective representatives of the company and our products to partners and other external collaborators
Implement software for research initiatives, and collaborate with other researchers and engineers
Engage the wider scientific community through impactful publications and open source releases

Our take

EvolutionaryScale, an AI startup pioneering the 'ChatGPT moment for biology', is at the forefront of transforming the field with its ground-breaking technology. Backed by Amazon Web Services and NVIDIA's venture capital arm, the company aims to revolutionize biology through artificial intelligence.

Central to EvolutionaryScale's mission is ESM3, the first large language model for creating novel proteins. It leverages a vast dataset of nearly 2.8 billion proteins, plus computational tools that analyze protein sequence, structure and function simultaneously. This can help accelerate drug discovery, as well as enable sustainable solutions through engineered microbes.

EvolutionaryScale's approach should help accelerate scientific breakthroughs and enhance precision in biotechnological applications. The company's success hinges on its ethical use of AI to tackle these challenges, by accelerating protein engineering beyond natural evolution so that it can be put to use against our greatest problems.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (1 round)

Jun 2024

$142m

SEED

Total funding: $142m

Company HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Articles

Ex-Meta scientists debut gigantic AI protein design model

Amazon and Nvidia backed AI startup EvolutionaryScale raises $142m

AI biology start-up EvolutionaryScale raises £112.1 million

Leadership

Alex Rives

(Co-Founder)

Serial Entrepreneur having previously co-founded Kallyope, Syros Pharmaceuticals and Fate Therapeutics. Before founding Evolutionary Scale they worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook AI.

Tom Sercu

(Co-Founder)

Previously an Engineering Manager at Meta. Before that they were a Research Engineer at IBM and a Research and Teaching Assistant at New York University.

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