President Virtual Cell Models Program Science
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$ 794000 - 1270000
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Job Description
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of societys toughest challenges from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive just and healthy future for everyone.
The Team
CZI supports the science and technology that will make it possible to help scientists cure prevent or manage all diseases by the end of this century. Our vision is to build the future of science by leveraging advances in AI alongside biomedical research.
Achieving our mission will only be possible if scientists are able to better understand human biology. To that end we have identified four grand challenges that will unlock the mysteries of the cell and how cells interact within systems paving the way for new discoveries that will change medicine in the decades that follow:
- Building an AIbased virtual cell model to predict and understand cellular behavior
- Developing stateoftheart imaging systems to observe living cells in action
- Instrumenting tissues to better understand inflammation a key driver of many diseases
- Engineering and harnessing the immune system for early detection prevention and treatment of disease
The Opportunity
This leadership opportunity offers a chance to lead CZIs ambitious effort to transform cell biology shifting from 90 experimental and 10 computational work to the reverse ratio over the next decade. As initiative leader you will guide the development of AIdriven virtual cell models that predict and generate novel cell states leveraging CZIs significant investment in computational infrastructure (including a 1000 H100 GPU cluster) and unparalleled biological datasets. Youll devise and execute strategies to build generative AI models that learn the accessible space and predict cell types structure function and dynamicsall while maintaining rigorous experimental validation and addressing biologically relevant questions that currently defy available methodologies.
The leader will coordinate across multiple domains from genomics to proteomics integrating static and dynamic cellular data establishing robust data standards and fostering collaboration between computational and experimental teams. This position offers a rare opportunity to establish a new paradigm in biological research that will dramatically accelerate both our fundamental understanding of biology and the development of novel cell therapies while ensuring these powerful tools remain accessible to the broader scientific community and our family of institutes as we make progress towards achieving our goals as a science philanthropy.
The President of the Virtual Cell Models program will join our Science Leadership team reporting to our Head of Science.
What Youll Do
Leadership & Vision
- Direct the overall scientific vision and strategy for the Virtual Cell Models program including key decisions about key biological questions model organisms cell types and the systems our organization will prioritize
- Build lead and manage a major initiative within CZI including recruiting and inspiring worldclass scientists and engineers organizing this initiative for optimal success and driving teams to execute on multiple complex projects often on accelerated timeframes
- Maintain scientific excellence across all data types and computational approaches used in this initiative
- Ensure integration of diverse biological data into cohesive multiscale models that advance understanding of cells and their function
- Develop clear roadmaps and timely plans for resource allocation prioritization and our strategic direction for building virtual cell models
- Foster innovation and collaboration across experimental and computational domains internally at CZIs institutes and externally with the science community
- Skillfully manage collaborations across multiple institutions balancing immediate deliverables with longterm ambitious goals
- Effectively leverage CZIs compute infrastructure including a 1000 H100 GPU cluster to maximize scientific discovery and lead the development computationally driven biological research
AI/ML BIO Imperatives
- Guide the organizations data generation requirements standards and quality control processes in collaboration with crossfunctional teams
- Effectively drive and coordinate projects between experimental and computational teams
- Drive the organizations approach to building buying and/or partnering with external collaborators to develop critical technologies
- Report progress against concrete milestones and deliverables to the broader organization including the senior leadership team
Strategic Accountability
- Serve as the intellectual owner of the initiatives direction and priorities
- Create the vision for how the Virtual Cell will transform biological research
- Build and maintain CZIs competitive differentiation and industryleading position and ensure its outputs advance understanding of human disease
- Skillfully communicate CZIs work and advancements externally as a publicfacing spokesperson for the work
- Identify and develop strategic partnerships when beneficial
- Maintain a sharp focus on applications and opportunities to advance understanding of human disease
What Youll Bring
- Ph.D. in Machine Learning Computational Biology or a related field with 20 years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated background in AI/ML approaches to biological data analysis including a deep understanding of diverse experimental methodologies across genomics proteomics and cell biology
- Significant scientific leadership experience overseeing crossfunctional technical teams in academia and/or industry and facilitating strategic collaborations with partners in the field
- Proven track record of success in recruiting worldclass talent managing large teams and budgets efficiently and effectively and delivering largescale ML projects in computational biology or healthcare on time and within budget
- Deep expertise in modern deep learning architectures particularly for multimodal data generation integration and standards as well as biological sequence modeling
- Comprehensive understanding of cellular biology and experience working with complex biological datasets such as singlecell technologies and imaging analysis
- Exceptional communication presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire internal teams collaborate engage and influence diverse stakeholders and communicate
- Background in developing foundation models or large language models
- Track record of impactful research publications and patents
- Experience with highperformance computing distributed systems and cloudbased infrastructure
Compensation
The Redwood City CA base pay range for this role is $794000 $1270000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on jobrelated skills and experience as evaluated throughout the interview process.
Benefits for the Whole You
Were thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make all we do possible.
- CZI provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
- Annual benefit for employees that can be used most meaningfully for them and their families such as housing student loan repayment childcare commuter costs or other life needs.
- CZI Life of Service Gifts are awarded to employees to live the mission and support the causes closest to them.
- Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
- Funding for select familyforming benefits.
- Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving to the Bay Area
- And more!
If youre interested in a role but your previous experience doesnt perfectly align with each qualification in the job description we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role.
Explore ourwork modesbenefits andinterview processatwww.chanzuckerberg/careers.
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