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ML Research Scientist - De Novo Design

Merge Labs · San Francisco Bay Area
$200K - $270KOpen 339 daysPythonMachine LearningLLMPyTorch

ML Research Scientist - De Novo Design is open at Merge Labs in San Francisco Bay Area. The posting gives a salary of $200K - $270K. Posted on Dec 11, 2025, and still on Merge Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.

About the role

We’re hiring a Senior / Principal ML Scientist to design and scale de novo design frameworks that guide molecular engineering campaigns through iterative design–build–test–learn (DBTL) cycles. Starting from a blank slate, you’ll first architect the company’s closed-loop optimization backbone—building the data and modeling foundations that connect experiments to these ML frameworks. Over time, you’ll help translate…

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