Astera Institute

structural biology

GeneralDiffUSE

$100–300k Emeryville, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“General DiffUSE at Astera Institute. Skills: protein biophysics, machine learning, computational biophysics, open scientific tooling. Process diffraction data. Build structural data pipelines”

What You'll Achieve.

Build open infrastructure; Study protein dynamics; Open and standardize datasets; Release open-source tooling

Industry & Context.

structural biology
Problems you'll solve

Unblocking collaborators

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Familiarity with protein biophysics, Familiarity with experimental methods

Nice to Have

PhD preferred, specific ML framework experience, cloud platform certs

What You'll Do.

Process diffraction data

Build structural data pipelines

Analyze protein conformations

Analyze data heterogeneity

Work with data standards

Develop macromolecular metrics

Research ML for macromolecules

Apply ML to protein dynamics

Develop ML on experimental data

Apply geometric deep learning

Partner with collaborators

Build scientific infrastructure

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate across Astera; Collaborate across Radial; Collaborate with partner institutions; Collaborate with external collaborators; Collaborate within teams

Communication Scope

Clear written communication; Clear verbal communication

Process & Methodology

Ability to drive projects, Comfortable owning a problem end-to-end

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