Applied AI Research Fellow

EVOZYNE INC • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Applied AI Research Fellowship at Evozyne is designed for researchers who want to stress‑test ambitious ideas against one of the most challenging frontiers in applied AI today: generative design under real‑world biological constraints. As a Fellow, you will work on foundational questions in representation learning, generative modeling, and optimization, with the opportunity to see your ideas evaluated against real experimental outcomes and translated into therapeutic programs. Your work will directly influence how Evozyne evaluates, evolves, and deploys its generative AI models for protein design.

Requirements

• Late-stage PhD student or postdoc in a quantitative or computational field
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML to complex, real-world or scientific datasets
• Experience working on problems where data is noisy, incomplete, or difficult to interpret
• Familiarity with modern machine learning approaches (e.g., deep learning, generative models, or related methods)
• Evidence of meaningful contribution to research, open-source work, or applied projects

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to interdisciplinary work (e.g., biology, chemistry, physics, or other scientific domains) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Benchmarking generative protein models, including Evozyne’s own, on their ability to produce functionally diverse and biologically meaningful designs.
• Evaluating the value of integrating large-scale metagenomic resources (e.g., Global Ocean Gene Catalog) into current internal database.
• Exploring alternatives and extensions to Bayesian Optimization such as Knowledge Gradient, Entropy Search, and related methods for multi-objective optimization problems.
• Developing and applying deep learning approaches for remote homology detection
• Investigating multi-family VAE models to enable protein design when sequence support is limited or when optimizing phenotypes across protein families.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees