Staff Machine Learning Scientist – Translational AI
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Staff Machine Learning Scientist providing technical leadership in biomedical AI at Natera. Responsible for leveraging ML models for high-impact translational problems in healthcare.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership at the intersection of biomedical foundation models, computational biology, and clinical translation.
- Shape how genomic, pathology and multimodal foundation models are applied to high-impact translational problems.
- Operate with broad technical autonomy, influencing modeling strategy across multiple initiatives.
- Work closely with AI scientists, translational scientists, bioinformatics, clinical partners, and ML engineers to ensure foundation models deliver biologically grounded and clinically meaningful insights.
Requirements:
- PhD in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of experience applying ML to biological, genomic, or clinical data, in the field of oncology, immunology, or translational medicine.
- Deep experience with foundation models, representation learning, self-supervised learning, or deep sequence models.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ML outputs into biological insight or clinical value, not just metrics.
- Strong proficiency in PyTorch and modern ML tooling (e.g., HuggingFace transformers, PEFT, Captum, MLFow).
- Track record of scientific and technical leadership through project ownership, mentorship, or cross-team influence.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive medical plans
- Dental plans
- Vision plans
- Life insurance
- Disability plans
- Free testing for employees and their immediate families
- Fertility care benefits
- Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
- 401k benefits
- Commuter benefits
- Employee referral program




















