Senior Machine Learning Researcher

Hlx Life Sciences is a well-funded, AI-native biotech company based in Boston, focused on developing foundation models to understand and predict cellular behaviour. The Senior Machine Learning Researcher will contribute to the development of models for single-cell biology, engaging in independent research and collaboration with computational biologists.

Responsibilities:

• Design, train, and optimise foundation models for single-cell RNA sequencing and other high-dimensional omics data
• Develop novel deep learning architectures tailored to structured biological data
• Build scalable, distributed training and inference pipelines for large-scale biological datasets
• Work closely with computational biologists to ensure models produce biologically meaningful and interpretable outputs
• Engage with the underlying biology — contributing to scientific thinking and research direction, not just the ML
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to colleagues across the research team