Google DeepMind
Research Scientist, Protein Design, DeepMind
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Minimum qualifications:
- PhD in a relevant field (Protein Design/Engineering, Machine Learning, Structural Biology, or similar) or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience using and developing protein design tools.
- Experience in an application area of protein design or protein engineering.
- Experience analyzing wet-lab measurements of protein function.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of post-PhD research experience.
- Experience in any of the following: mechanistic enzymology, biocatalysis, computational chemistry.
- Experience performing experiments to characterize protein function.
- Excellent computational, quantitative reasoning, and technical communication skills.
About the job
As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution, and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.
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Responsibilities
- Apply generative machine learning models to design proteins with novel functions, such as enzymes, for wet-lab testing.
- Build models and procedures for making in silico predictions of the functions of designed proteins.
- Resolve design failures by applying domain knowledge of protein design tools and sequence-structure-function relationships.
- Collaborate with teammates from scientific backgrounds to improve and expand the capabilities of protein design tools.
- Identify high-impact research directions in protein design method development and applications.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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