Bioinformatics Scientist II AI Applications

Company: ALLENINSTITUTE

Location: Seattle, WA

Posted on: April 17

Bioinfomatics Scientist II AI Applications

The mission of the Allen Institute is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance ou knowledge to impove human health. Using an open science, multi-scale, team-oiented appoach, the Allen Institute focuses on acceleating foundational eseach, developing standads and models, and cultivating new ideas to make a boad, tansfomational impact on science.

The mission of the Allen Institute fo Immunology is to advance the fundamental undestanding of human immunology though the study of immune health and diseases whee excessive o impaied immune esponses dive pathological pocesses. The Institute will employ a multi-disciplinay team appoach in collaboation with academic centes of human immunology to geneate novel mechanistic insights into the immune synapse in health and in diseases such as autoimmunity o oncology. The Institute will simultaneously povide a foundational data set and tools fo futue immunological eseach as well as a novel collaboation potal fo the boade scientific community.

The Allen Institute fo Immunology is seeking a Bioinfomatics Scientist II AI Applications to tain AI models using ou enomous multimodal omics data. Repoting to the Diecto of Infomatics & Computational Biology at the Allen Institute fo Immunology, the ideal candidate is a self-motivated team playe who can wok closely with immunologists and bioinfomaticians, is an expet in applying AI methodologies fo biological/medical eseach and has a tack ecod of taining tansfome models. The successful candidate will also have excellent communication skills that can epesent ou effots to ou stakeholdes intenally and in extenal foums.

At the Allen Institute, we believe that science is fo eveyone and should be open to eveyone. We ae dedicated to combating biases and educing baies to STEM caees moe boadly. We also believe that science is bette when it includes diffeent pespectives and voices. We stive to make the Allen Institute a place whee eveyone feels like they belong and ae empoweed to do thei best wok in a suppotive envionment.

We ae an equal-oppotunity employe and stongly encouage people fom all backgounds to apply fo ou open positions.

Essential Functions

• Tain AI models (e.g. tansfomes and vaiational autoencodes) based on multimodal OMICS data, including but not limited to: spatial tansciptomics, scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, CITE-seq, TEA-seq, flow cytomety, and poteomics
• Apply AI methodologies to geneate testable hypotheses fo new biological insights, and identify potential biomakes and/o dug tagets fo disease of inteest
• Wite epots, eseach papes, patent applications, and othe documents
• Repesent ou effots to ou stakeholdes intenally and in extenal foums
• Contibute to a igoously scientific, cohesive and efficient team envionment

Note: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to pefom the essential functions. This desciption eflects managements assignment of essential functions; it does not poscibe o estict the tasks that may be assigned.

Requied Education and Expeience

• PhD in compute science, applied mathematics, bioinfomatics, biostatistics, computational biology, o closely elated disciplines; o equivalent combination of education and expeience
• Thee (3) + yeas of post-degee expeience

Pefeed Education and Expeience

• Demonstated expeience in taining AI models, including but not limited to: lage language models (LLMs), tansfomes, vaiational autoencodes, neutal netwoks, etc.
• Expeience in applying AI methodologies fo biological/medical eseach
• Demonstated expeience in leading eseach pojects
• Familia with OMICS technologies
• Foundational knowledge of AI methodologies and bioinfomatics
• Expeience with R and/o Python
• Stong publication ecod
• Familia with advanced statistical methods and machine leaning fo biomake discovey
• Expeience woking in a coss-disciplinay, team-based envionment
• Expeience woking with outside collaboatos to achieve defined objectives
• Familiaity with cloud computing and/o Linux
• Expeience using Git o simila vesion contol system
• Excellent witten and vebal communication skills and oganizational skills
• Good poblem-solving skills, cuious and eage to take new challenges
• Able to wok independently as well as in a collaboative high paced envionment
• The successful candidate must be self-motivated, a team playe, attentive to details, and able to handle multiple pojects simultaneously

Wok Envionment

• May ente laboatoy envionment - possible exposue to chemical, biological, o othe hazadous substances.

Physical Demands

• Fine moto movements in finges/hands to opeate computes and othe office equipment; epetitive motion with lab equipment

Position Type/Expected Hous of Wok

• Occasional evening and weekend hous equied
• This ole is cuently able to wok both emotely and onsite in a hybid wok envionment. We ae a Washington State employe, and the pimay wok location fo all Allen Institute employees is 615 Westlake Ave N.; any emote wok must be pefomed in Washington State.

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• Attendance and paticipation in national and intenational confeences may be equied

Additional Comments

• **Please note, this oppotunity offes elocation assistance**
• **Please note, this oppotunity offes wok visa sponsoship**

Annualized Salay Range

• $111,300 - $137,700 *

* Final salay depends on equied education fo the ole, expeience, and level of skills elevant to the ole, along with wok location, whee applicable.

Benefits

• Employees (and thei families) ae eligible to enoll in benefits pe eligibility ules outline in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide. These benefits include medical, dental, vision, and basic life insuance. Employees ae also eligible to enoll in the Allen Institutes 401k plan. Paid time off is also available as outlined in the Allen Institutes Benefits Guide. Details on the Allen Institutes benefits offeing ae located at the following link to the Benefits Guide: https://alleninstitute.og/caees/benefits.

It is the policy of the Allen Institute to povide equal employment oppotunity (EEO) to all pesons egadless of age, colo, national oigin, citizenship status, physical o mental disability, ace, eligion, ceed, gende, sex, sexual oientation, gende identity and/o expession, genetic infomation, maital status, status with egad to public assistance, vetean status, o any othe chaacteistic potected by fedeal, state o local law. In addition, the Allen Institute will povide easonable accommodations fo qualified individuals with disabilities.