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Tamarind BioTamarind BioSan Francisco, CA

Computational Scientist

Curates, builds, and scales AI-powered drug discovery tools including structure prediction, protein design, and docking models. Collaborates with customers to troubleshoot and optimize biological AI workflows using Python, PyTorch, and cloud infrastructure.

150k – 250k/yr
On-siteML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Work with founders and engineers to integrate and deploy biological ML models on the Tamarind platform.
  • Build and refine workflows connecting tools like structure prediction, docking, and scoring models.
  • Partner with customers to troubleshoot pipelines and help them run large-scale discovery workflows.
  • Evaluate new research tools and integrate promising models into the platform.
  • Contribute to improving reliability, performance, and scalability of scientific pipelines.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in computational biology, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, or related field.
  • Familiarity with ML and physics-based tools in structural biology, molecular dynamics, protein–ligand docking, or virtual screening.
  • Experience working with biological data such as molecular structures, compounds, sequences, and databases.
  • Programming experience in Python and scientific computing workflows.
  • Comfort working with cloud infrastructure and ML tooling (AWS, Docker, CUDA, Conda, PyTorch, TensorFlow).
  • Located in the SF Bay Area or able to relocate.

Skills

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowCUDADockerAWSCondaMolecular ModelingProtein DesignStructural BiologyMachine LearningProtein-Ligand DockingMolecular Dynamics

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