Hiring: Director / Senior Director, Machine Learning for Biology Company: Altos Labs Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:57:47 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Diffusion Models, Fine-tuning, LLM, Machine Learning, REST About the job Experience: •10+ years experience with a proven track record, with a minimum of 4–5 years of experience, in people management. •14+ years experience, with 7–8+ years of people/team leadership, and a demonstrable broad background driving multiple programs through multi disciplinary teams. Required Skills: •Build and maintain strong partnerships with key stakeholders and leaders across different functions / Altos. •Lead a team of ML Scientists and Engineers, while staying hands-on enough to provide direct technical guidance across IoC's highest-impact ML programs. •Provide technical and strategic guidance and advice on ML project design and de-risking across multiple teams, drawing on deep intuition for what drives success or failure in ML-for-biology projects, backed by established experience. •Provide sustained technical mentorship and strategic guidance, supporting the professional development and growth of the team while proactively growing IoC's ML bench through training, coaching, and active recruitment of outstanding talent. •Lead effectively in a matrixed environment, influencing technical direction on projects and teams outside your direct reporting line, and aligning priorities across IoC's ML programs even where you don't hold reporting authority. Qualifications: •Deep knowledge and understanding with common and state of the art AI/ML methods and innovations and large-scale training procedures, applied to biological data modalities (e.g., single-cell, perturbation-response, spatial, or sequence data). •A strong track record of leading innovative biological ML projects to success, while foreseeing and mitigating ML project failure modes at scale. •Demonstrated capacity to think strategically, and can optimize for the long term while acting and delivering with pace. •Demonstrated capacity to contribute to a culture of continuous learning and technical innovation, ensuring a rigorous balance between creative exploration and strategic resource allocation and priorities. •Stay current with scientific and data science advancements, integrating relevant knowledge into computational biology. •Intellectually curious with a strong pulse on the computational Landscape, and ability to decipher and prioritize AI trends from hype to maintain a competitive edge. •PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field. •Director: PhD + 10+ years experience with a proven track record, with a minimum of 4–5 years of experience, in people management. •Senior Director: PhD +14+ years experience, with 7–8+ years of people/team leadership, and a demonstrable broad background driving multiple programs through multi disciplinary teams. Compensation: •$297,400 - $381,300 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!