Research Scientist
San Francisco office • FullTime
Posted 7mo ago
Job Location
San Francisco office
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
AI Research Engineer
About the job
Chai Discovery is building the computer-aided design suite for molecules, with major pharmaceutical companies already using their platform to power drug discovery programs. The company is at the forefront of reinventing life sciences through AI, training frontier models that understand biochemical structure and interaction. These models are integrated into a computational workspace, enabling scientists to accelerate the development of novel medicines. Chai Discovery values diverse perspectives and seeks individuals with exceptional insight to drive new research directions.
Responsibilities
- Drive new avenues for research in AI and drug discovery.
- Contribute to pre-training large diffusion models.
- Design model architectures.
- Work on post-training and inference time scaling for AI models.
- Apply AI research to real-world therapeutic engineering.
Requirements
- Outlier insight to drive new research avenues.
- Sustained focus, rigor, and results-oriented approach.
- Ability to tackle challenging problems with grit and curiosity.
- Strong academic training and research track record.
- Proven industry accomplishments or potential in rising talent.
- Engineering capability.
- Fluency in relevant literature.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology.
- Collaboration with world-class people.
- Work on a mission that matters.
- Culture of high velocity and ownership.
- Competitive compensation.