Research Scientist

The role

Research scientists will train frontier models that learn the foundations of biochemical structure and interaction. This work involves pre-training large diffusion models, architecture design, post-training, and inference-time scaling.

What you will do

• Train frontier models that learn the underlying foundations of biochemical structure and interaction.
• Pre-train large diffusion models.
• Perform architecture design.
• Conduct post-training.
• Perform inference-time scaling.
• Implement own models.
• Run own experiments.

Required qualifications

• A research record in academia or industry such as first-author work, a method others adopted, or a system working at scale in the real world.
• Strong reasoning from first principles and sound experimental design.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and messy data.
• Enough engineering to be self-sufficient to implement own models and run own experiments.

Nice to have

• Strong signal in any field, from world models or autonomous systems to top placement at IMO or Putnam.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology with world-class people.
• Culture of high velocity and ownership.

About the company

Chai Discovery builds the computer-aided design suite for molecules. The company trains frontier models to help scientists move faster and develop medicines.