InstaDeep
InstaDeep

PhD Research Intern, Biological Sequence Design

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London
Salary: £39K
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InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.

Join us to be a part of the AI revolution!

As a PhD Intern in the Research Team you will be responsible for implementing and developing novel algorithms, as well as identifying and investigating promising research ideas, in the field of Bayesian optimization, active learning, large protein language models, representation learning, model-based search, and uncertainty quantification, to the most relevant challenges in biological sequence design.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Support the efforts of the Research Team through the development of novel methods and applications under the guidance of our Research Scientists and Engineers.
  • Design and implement ML methods for proof of concept and benchmarking.
  • Contribute to team research and publications.
  • Report and present experimental results and research findings, both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.
  • Write high-quality, maintainable, well-documented, and modular python code.

    • Requirements

  • Currently enrolled in a PhD programme (or recent graduate) in a related STEM discipline.
  • Theoretical and practical knowledge in machine learning, deep learning, LLMs, RL, Bayesian optimization and/or non-parametric models, including experience with a deep learning framework such as JAX, PyTorch and/or Tensorflow. 
  • Excellent communication skills and collaborative spirit.
  • Good programming skills in Python.
  • Proven ability to contribute to research communities and/or efforts, as evidenced by publishing scientific papers in leading journals or conferences (JMLR, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.).
  • Work permit for the UK for the duration of the internship.

    • Beneficial

  • Computational biology experience and biological data curation and management.
  • Application of deep learning to life science, and/or discrete sequence design. 
  • Experience in model guided optimisation, applying computational modelling techniques to protein sequence design, fitness prediction and/or folding or binding tasks.
  • Published scientific papers in related domains such as ML, AI or bioinformatics.
  • Theoretical and practical knowledge of reinforcement learning, planning and/or search algorithms. 
  • Software engineering skills (git, docker, quality coding standards, …)

    • Our commitment to our people

    We empower individuals to celebrate their uniqueness here at InstaDeep. Our team comes from all walks of life, and we’re proud to continue encouraging and supporting applicants from underrepresented groups across the globe. Our commitment to creating an authentic environment comes from our ability to learn and grow from our diversity, and how better to experience this than by joining our team? We operate on a hybrid work model with guidance to work at the office 3 days per week to encourage close collaboration and innovation. We are continuing to review the situation with the well-being of InstaDeepers at the forefront of our minds.

    Right to work: Please note that you will require the legal right to work in the location you are applying for.

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