# Postdoctoral Researcher, Zhou Lab

**Company**: Arc Institute
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $80,000
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

The Zhou Lab at Arc Institute is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on advancing the state-of-the-art in generative AI applied to biology. The successful candidate will focus on developing machine learning models for biological data, leveraging frontier approaches such as novel ML architectures and interpretability techniques.

Responsibilities:

- Train and evaluate state-of-the-art machine learning models for genomics

- Design, perform, and analyze experiments for model applications

- Keep appropriate experimental records and documentation

- Analyze results with the Principal Investigator

- Collaborate with postdocs, students, and employees on model development and data analyses

- Publish, present, and represent the Zhou lab in journals and conferences

Requirements:

- Doctorate (MD, PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genetics/Genomics

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and be both an independent thinker and a highly collaborative team player

## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- computational biology
- genetics
- bioinformatics
- deep learning

### Nice to have
- single-cell epigenomic modeling
- DNA sequence to function models
- genome language models
- single-cell foundation models

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