Machine Learning Intern, BigHat Biosciences

Summer 2025

Salary not provided
AWS
Python
PyTorch
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

BigHat Biosciences

Antibody discovery & engineering platform

Job no longer available

BigHat Biosciences

Antibody discovery & engineering platform

21-100 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceBiologyMachine LearningMedTech

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
AWS
Python
PyTorch
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

21-100 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceBiologyMachine LearningMedTech

Company mission

1900 Alameda de Las Pulgas, San Mateo, California 94403, US

Role

Who you are

  • PhD in progress, BS/MS degree in ML, CS or in the sciences with significant ML experience and a strong mathematical background. Truly exceptional undergraduates may be considered
  • Strong competency in Python, familiarity with PyTorch, exposure to modern software engineering best practices
  • Strong communication skills, sufficient biomedical domain knowledge to interact effectively with diverse scientific teams
  • Nice-to-haves include experience with protein structure modeling, familiarity with antibody biology, and experience training and deploying models on AWS

What the job involves

  • We are seeking talented, hard working interns to join our Machine Learning team for Summer 2025
  • As an aspiring machine learning engineer or scientist you’ll be mentored by a member of our ML team and work with an interdisciplinary team of scientists to develop new methods to solve important ML-driven protein engineering problems
  • Develop and evaluate a novel ML modeling or sequence optimization approach to solve an antibody engineering challenge relevant to BigHat’s therapeutics programs
  • Work with an interdisciplinary team of biologists, data scientists and machine learning scientists to gain sufficient domain familiarity to ensure your work is impactful
  • Document and present your results to relevant BigHat departments
  • Write production-grade code such that successful methods can be deployed and evaluated in the wet lab

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Company

Company benefits

  • Culture of excellence and growth
  • Swift promotions with clear standards
  • Autonomy and responsibility
  • Fair compensation and recognition
  • True work life balance

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2022

$75m

SERIES B

Feb 2021

$19m

SERIES A

Total funding: $99.3m

Our take

Melding genetics and code, Bighat Bioscience is a protein therapeutics company that develops antibodies for the medical industry using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Established in 2019, its antibody design capabilities have been tried and tested for numerous use cases, including during the vaccine development race of the pandemic.

The platform has special utility in supporting the creation of drugs for hard-to-treat diseases such as Alzheimer's, which affect large numbers of people. To this end, the company has partnered with leading pharmaceutical companies such as Merck & Co and Amgen to build ML and AI platforms for their drug discovery needs.

Interestingly, BigHat grew its company by 30% in 2022, despite competitors having to downsize, which is a a definitive green flag for its success in the space. It has also won big when it comes to large contractors who see the smoothness and scalability of the platforms it builds, suggesting it will secure more lucrative deals moving forward.

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