Your responsibilities will include identifying areas where ML can create value for our customers, identifying the right ML framing of product problems, working with teammates and Product and Design stakeholders, conducting exploratory data analysis and research, deeply understanding the problem area, researching and identifying the right algorithms and tools, being pragmatic, but innovating right to the cutting-edge when needed, performing offline evaluation to gather evidence an algorithm will work, working with engineers to bring prototypes to production, planning, measuring & socializing learnings to inform iteration, and partnering deeply with the rest of team, and others, to build excellent ML products.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have broad applied machine learning knowledge, 3-5 years applied ML experience, practical stats knowledge (experiment design, dealing with confounding etc), intermediate programming skills, strong communication skills, both within engineering teams and across disciplines, comfort with ambiguity, typically have advanced education in ML or related field (e.g. MSc), and scientific thinking skills. Bonus skills and attributes include track record shipping ML products, PhD or other experience in a research environment, deep experience in an applicable ML area. e.g. NLP, Deep learning, Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, clustering, strong stats or math background, visualization, data skills, SQL, matplotlib, etc.

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The role reports to the Director, Machine Learning Science. This role can be a Hybrid role based in our Brisbane, California headquarters (2-3 days per week in office), or remote.

Key responsibilities include:

• Independently pursuing cutting-edge research in AI applied to biological problems
• Building new models or fine-tuning existing models to identify biological changes resulting from disease
• Building models that achieve high accuracy and that generalise robustly to new data
• Applying contemporary interpretability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the underlying signal identified by the model, ideally suggesting potential biological mechanisms
• Working closely with ML Engineering partners to ensure that Freenome's computational infrastructure supports optimal model training and iteration
• Taking a mindful, transparent, and humane approach to your work

Requirements include:

• PhD or equivalent research experience with an AI emphasis and in a relevant, quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computational Biology, or Bioinformatics
• 3+ years of postdoc or post-PhD industry experience achieving impactful results using relevant modelling techniques
• Expertise, demonstrated by research publications or industry achievements, in applied machine learning, deep learning and complex data modelling
• Practical and theoretical understanding of fundamental ML models like generalised linear models, kernel machines, decision trees and forests, neural networks
• Practical and theoretical understanding of DL models like large language models or other foundation models
• Extensive experience with training paradigms like supervised learning, self-supervised learning, and contrastive learning
• Proficient in current state of the art in ML/DL approaches in different domains, with an ability to envision their applications in biological data
• Proficiency in a general-purpose programming language: Python, R, Java, C, C++, etc.
• Proficiency in one or more ML frameworks such as; Pytorch, Tensorflow and Jax; and ML platforms like Hugging Face
• Experience in ML analysis and developer tools like TensorBoard, MLflow or Weights & Biases
• Excellent ability to communicate across disciplines, work collaboratively, and make progress in smaller steps via experimental iterations
• A passion for innovation and demonstrated initiative in tackling new areas of research

Nice to have qualifications include:

• Deep domain-specific experience in computational biology, genomics, proteomics or a related field
• Experience in building DL models for genomic data, with knowledge of state-of-the-art DNA foundation models
• Experience in NGS data analysis and bioinformatic pipelines
• Experience with containerized cloud computing environments such as Docker in GCP, Azure, or AWS
• Experience in a production software engineering environment, including the use of automated regression testing, version control, and deployment systems

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