Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Translational AI

Natera

Staff Machine Learning Scientist providing technical leadership in deep learning and molecular diagnostics at Natera. Engaging in biotech initiatives and collaborating with diverse scientific teams.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $163,200 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PyTorch

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership at the intersection of deep learning, computational biology, and molecular diagnostics.
Drive the architecture and validation of genomic, transcriptomic, and multimodal sequence models.
Engineer alignment and post-training workflows based on clinical trial and molecular diagnostic data.
Lead parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and evaluation of deep sequence and multimodal models.
Validate model outputs against benchmarks and real-world outcomes.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate clinical requirements into machine learning problem statements.
Act as a technical bridge between AI Research and ML Engineering teams.
Author technical manuscripts for peer-reviewed venues and represent the company's capabilities at conferences.

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, or a highly quantitative structural field.
5+ years of industry or post-doctoral experience applying deep learning frameworks to complex biological, genomic, or clinical datasets, with a documented focus on oncology or immunology portfolios.
Deep technical competency with transformer architectures, representation learning, self-supervised learning (SSL), or deep sequence modeling.
Proven track record of translating machine learning outputs into verifiable biological variables or clinical performance indicators.
Expert proficiency in PyTorch and modern machine learning infrastructure (e.g., HuggingFace ecosystem, PEFT, Captum, MLflow, and distributed GPU computing setups).
Documented technical leadership through end-to-end project ownership or cross-functional team direction.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents.
Free testing for employees and their immediate families.
Fertility care benefits.
Pregnancy and baby bonding leave.
401(k) benefits.
Commuter benefits.
Generous employee referral program.

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Hard Skills & Tools

deep learningcomputational biologymolecular diagnosticsgenomic modelstranscriptomic modelsmultimodal sequence modelsparameter-efficient fine-tuningself-supervised learningtransformer architecturesdeep sequence modeling

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproject ownershipcross-functional team direction

Certifications

PhD in Computer SciencePhD in Computational BiologyPhD in BioinformaticsPhD in Biomedical Engineering