Translational AI Scientist/Engineer at BioAge Labs
United States
$150k - $185k
<div><body><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;'><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are seeking a scientist/engineer with hands-on expertise in building generative and agentic AI systems and a strong foundation in target discovery, drug discovery and translational science. You will design and deploy AI-enabled systems that take a target and produce decision-grade, evidence-backed recommendations — from mechanism hypotheses to validation design — with every claim grounded in retrievable evidence and every gap stated explicitly, and that assess how likely a human-derived signal is to hold up in the lab and beyond.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;text-align:justify;'><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">This role is ideal for someone who would rather build production AI systems for translational science than only run analyses, and who has enough hands-on biology to know when a recommendation is scientifically sound and when it merely reads well. You will own the engineering of these systems end to end, from retrieval and orchestration to evaluation and deployment, and work as a peer with the scientists who act on their outputs.</span></p><h2 style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What you will do</strong></b></h2><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Design and deploy agentic AI systems that support scientific reasoning, hypothesis generation and evidence synthesis for the translational questions that follow target identification: mechanism and source of signal, indication selection, experimental design, reagent quality and translatability.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Build systems that recommend how to test a target — experimental system (in vivo, ex vivo or in vitro), model, indication, endpoints tiered by translational relevance, intervention modality and study parameters — with each choice grounded in published precedent and with an explicit statement when no precedent exists.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Develop tool-using workflows that retrieve and integrate structured and unstructured evidence — knockout and perturbation phenotypes, endpoint precedent, published effect sizes, tool compound and reagent quality, prior programme outcomes, primary literature — with full provenance.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Build the cross-species layer: determine whether a target's human signal is reproducible in a model system, and identify the readouts that link experimental results back to the human cohort data.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Assess translatability: develop evidence that a human-derived signal will reproduce in vivo and onward, calibrated against targets with known preclinical and clinical outcomes, and feed that evidence back into target prioritisation.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Build the evaluation framework for these systems — reference sets of targets with known experimental outcomes, metrics for citation quality and coverage, and calibration of translatability calls — with attention to scientific reliability and interpretability in decision-critical settings.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Encode domain rules on the meaning and reliability of each external source, so that absent, weak and contradicting evidence are handled distinctly and never collapsed.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Partner with target biology and experimental teams so that recommended designs are usable by the people who run the studies, and incorporate their outcomes back into the system.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Own these systems end to end (architecture, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring) as maintainable software that scientists rely on day to day, not one-off notebooks or prototypes.</span></li></ul><h2 style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;font-size:29pt;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:0.5px;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:17pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What we expect of you</strong></b></h2><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Basic qualifications</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">PhD with 2+ years of relevant experience, </span><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">or</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Master's degree with 5+ years, </span><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">or</strong></b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;"> Bachelor's degree with 7+ years, in computer science, computational biology, biology, translation science or a related field. We welcome scientist-first candidates with demonstrated ability to build production-quality AI workflows, as well as engineer-first candidates with deep translational-biology judgment.</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Preferred technical qualifications</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-based agentic systems in production or production-like settings: tool use, retrieval over structured and unstructured sources, multi-agent orchestration, structured outputs, provenance tracking, and cost and latency management.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience designing and running evaluation for AI systems — reference sets, automated metrics, regression testing — with a strong understanding of interpretability and scientific reliability in decision-critical environments.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python, testing, version control, API design, data modelling, and reproducible, auditable workflows (orchestration, documentation, CI).</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience integrating multi-modal biological data — omics, phenotype, perturbation, text and literature — using AI-enabled or model-based approaches.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with the infrastructure behind research AI systems: relational and graph databases, cloud environments and containers, pipeline orchestration, and programmatic access to large public biological databases (APIs, bulk data).</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Preferred scientific qualifications</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hands-on or wet-lab research experience in one or more of: in vivo pharmacology or disease models, target validation, disease biology, functional genomics, chemical biology or translational science — enough to judge whether a proposed experiment or mechanism is sound.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Working knowledge of the resources that hold target and precedent evidence — model organism phenotype databases, chemical probe and druggability resources, drug and clinical trial databases, pathway and perturbation resources — and the judgment to know when each is reliable.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with the evidence linking preclinical results to clinical outcomes, including the role of genetic support and the literature on animal-to-human translation.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Scientific rigour about evidence: you distinguish absence of evidence from evidence against, report coverage alongside conclusions, and prefer stating a gap to filling it plausibly.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ability to work effectively across scientific and engineering functions, with strong written and oral communication, self-motivation and independence.</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:12pt 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Also valued</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:12pt 0px 0pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Background in aging biology or geroscience, including healthspan endpoints and aging-specific study designs.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with proteomics, cross-species biomarker translation or biomedical ontologies.</span></li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0pt 0px 12pt;font-size:11pt;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Familiarity with CRISPR and perturbation resources, or with pooled or arrayed screening.</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Our company</strong></b></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;'><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">BioAge is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic product candidates for metabolic diseases by targeting the biology of human aging. The Company's lead product candidate, BGE-102, is a potent, orally available, brain-penetrant small-molecule NLRP3 inhibitor being developed for cardiovascular risk and retinal diseases including diabetic macular edema. BGE-102 has completed a Phase 1 SAD/MAD trial demonstrating a well-tolerated profile and potential best-in-class reductions in hsCRP and other inflammatory biomarkers in participants with obesity and elevated inflammation. Phase 2 cardiovascular risk proof-of-concept data are anticipated in H2 2026, and Phase 1b/2a diabetic macular edema proof-of-concept data are anticipated in mid 2027. The Company is also developing long-acting injectable and oral small molecule APJ agonists for obesity. BioAge’s additional preclinical programs, which leverage insights from the Company’s proprietary discovery platform built on human longevity data, address key pathways involved in metabolic aging. BioAge has been listed on Nasdaq (BIOA) since 2024. For additional information about BioAge, visit the company’s website at https://bioagelabs.com.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Our workplace</strong></b></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;'><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">BioAge offers competitive salary, a comprehensive compensation package, and generous paid time off in addition to company-observed holidays. We provide comprehensive health and wellness benefits (medical, dental, and vision insurance) and a 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching employer contributions, and we support families through childcare and fertility benefits. We also pride ourselves in giving employees many opportunities for career development, including a generous annual budget for continued learning and a dedication to training and skill development. Many positions (including this one) are remote, allowing our team members to work from anywhere. The salary for this role is expected to be approximately $150,000 - $185,000, depending on experience. We are open to the concept that different experience levels add value to the team in different ways, and therefore will consider a variety of experience and offer commensurate pay.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.2;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;'><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">At BioAge, we embrace diversity and differences while we learn from each other, and we believe that every team member has an important role to play. We are an equal opportunity employer. BioAge prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. BioAge conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p></body></div>
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