Data Scientist - Remote - W

Desired Role & Level: Role / Level: Data Scientist / Mid

Location: Johnston IA candidate living within 50 mile radius of location required onsite T/W/TH each week.
Remote candidate can be considered as remote if in the US and living more than 50 miles from above indicated locations.

Project Scope and Brief Description: Nextgeneration Artificial Intelligence for Genomics will use more complex datatypes and be applied to new crop contexts. We need a Data Scientist with demonstrated expertise in training and evaluating transformers such as BERT and its derivatives. Responsibilities: Improve the genomics LLMs for gene expression profiling by incorporating new sequencing data types adopting new foundation models and applying new finetuning techniques in LLMs. Develop the Generative AI tool for automated genome editing design based on the improved LLM.

Skills / Experience: Preferred: Experience with genomics data molecular genetics. Distributed computing tools like Ray Dask Spark.