Senior AI Research Scientist

COMPANY OVERVIEW Created in 2021 by Camille Bouget, Vincent Bouget et Julien Duquesne, Scienta Lab is a deeptech company harnessing artificial intelligence to transform the drug discovery and development process in immunology and inflammation. With its unique and proprietary technology based on a foundation model, Scienta Lab leverages multimodal data to accelerate the discovery of new therapeutic targets and the development of personalized treatments. The company’s research activities, led in partnership with top-tier academic institutions across Europe, are regularly featured in medical journals and international congresses. Scienta Lab is based in Biolabs Hôtel Dieu and has been selected amongst the 2023 edition of the Future 40 program which rewards the most promising startups of Station F each year. In December 2023, the company announced a seed round of € 4M from CentraleSupélec Venture and a team of world-class business angels and is thus seeking for top talents to accelerate its development. Join us and be a part of our exciting journey to unravel the mysteries of the immune system! Discover who we are and what we value here : https://scienta-lab.notion.site/Scienta-Lab-Get-to-know-us-4ed8a279314b4d8c9834c726d8bf0698 JOB DESCRIPTION As a Research Scientist you will lead high-impact research projects at the interface of machine learning, computational biology, bioinformatics and drug discovery & development. These projects will be focused on building machine learning models from multimodal data (clinical notes, biology, genomic data, histology, radiology, ...), to identify new biomarkers, therapeutic targets, drug combinations, indications expansions and optimized drug development strategies. You will be part of the AI R&D team and will collaborate with Scienta Lab’s CTO and/or external collaborators (academic medical researchers / pharmaceutical companies) to deliver these research projects centered around specific auto-immune diseases. Main Missions : - Contribute to research projects interacting with academic partners and/or pharma to better understand disease mechanisms, and to generate new hypotheses about potential therapeutic strategies. - Develop internal research projects to advance core scientific methodologies, focusing on the development of methods leveraging multi-modal patient data (clinical data, multi-omics as well as histology, biology and radiology) to improve the precision of biomarker and target identification approaches. WHO WE LOOK FOR - PhD level / Masters in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics or Machine Learning - You are familiar with machine learning and recent deep learning methods - You like coding to deliver high-quality production-grade code and sharing good practices as a team - Professional working proficiency in English HOW TO STAND OUT - You are well-versed in omics data and computational biology - You have published research in leading Machine Learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, ACL, …) WHAT WE OFFER ? Competitive salary and benefits package ? Flexible work organization and access to partial remote work ? Half of transportation costs covered by the company, half of health insurance (Alan) and meal vouchers ? Offices at Biolabs Hôtel-Dieu, with view on Notre-Dame Job Type: PermanentStatus: Cadre Pay: 30,000.00€ - 150,000.00€ per year Application Question(s): Do you need visa sponsorship to work in France ? Work Location: In person #J-18808-Ljbffr