Platform Fellow

Emeryville, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 8000 - 12000

Posted on: 17 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

A Bit About Us

We are Arcadia Science an evolutionary biology company founded and led by scientists. Our mission is to turn natural innovations into real-world solutions by developing systematic and quantitative approaches to leveraging biology for therapeutics R&D. We share our research as openly as possible to accelerate discovery and make our work broadly useful.

The Opportunity

Were closing the gap between biological data and biological understanding. Our Platform team builds evolution-aware statistical and ML methods that use phylogeny as structure making inference more reliable and more generalizable. The result is shared infrastructure that supports research across Arcadia. Read more about our work through our publications.

We are seeking a Platform Fellow to join our Platform team for a 3-month fellowship. Platform uses phylogeny to guide the development of many of our statistical models machine learning tools and evolutionary frameworks powering research across Arcadia. This is an ideal opportunity for scientists in the final stages of their PhD or postdoc training who want to experience industry research in an open science environment or for researchers looking to apply their quantitative skills to evolutionary biology in new ways.

Platform Fellows will work closely with our computational teams on projects at the intersection of machine learning statistics and evolutionary biology. Fellows will contribute to a defined project with the goal of publishing their work openly by the end of the fellowship.

Areas of Focus

We are looking for candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

- Probabilistic modeling and statistical inference

- Supervised and unsupervised learning for high-dimensional biological data

- Interpretability methods development for ML models

- Phylogenetic inference and evolutionary modeling

- Comparative and evolutionary genomics across species

- Quantitative and population genetics including human genetics

- Analysis of natural selection adaptation and trait evolution

- Statistical and machine learning approaches to quantitative genetics

What Youll Do

Work with Platform team members on a defined computational project aligned with Arcadias research goals
Independently manage your fellowship work troubleshooting issues as they arise
Keep detailed documentation for all workflows code and analyses
Publish results openly and share data code and methods by the end of the fellowship

Qualifications

PhD in computational biology statistics machine learning genetics evolutionary biology or a related quantitative field
Strong programming skills (Python and/or R required; familiarity with bash and version control)
Experience with statistical modeling machine learning or phylogenetic methods
Ability to work independently while collaborating with cross-functional teams
Strong written and verbal communication skills

$8000 - $12000 a month

Fellows will receive a competitive monthly stipend. Travel and relocation support is available for candidates relocating temporarily to the Bay Area.

What We Look For

The first thing we look for is technical talent at the leading edge of a field. To us this means independent and generative scientists doing basic research that has the potential to produce evidence challenging standard practices. This is true for all of our roles: whether someone is an individual contributor or a people manager we want researchers pushing their field forward.

For this role in particular we are looking for scientists who want to apply quantitative methods to biological questions across the tree of life. The ideal candidate is comfortable with ambiguity moves quickly and communicates clearly through writing. Our team is flexible and often needs to pivot to match the pace of development at the cutting edge of multiple fields. Writing independently is crucial since we share everything we think is valuable to the community and will help us move our research forward.

We try to develop novel approaches for every aspect of our science and everyone on our team is expected to innovate in their domain. This is not easy and wont be for everyone. We believe a culture where this is possible stems from how we act.

Application Process

Interested applicants should apply using the link. We expect to review applications at a monthly cadence.

Due to anticipated volume we may not be able to respond to all applicants. If you advance beyond initial review we will let you know.

A Bit About UsWe are Arcadia Science an evolutionary biology company founded and led by scientists. Our mission is to turn natural innovations into real-world solutions by developing systematic and quantitative approaches to leveraging biology for therapeutics R&D. We share our research as openly as...