Job Description

InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.
Join us to be a part of the AI revolution!
We are seeking Research Engineers with experience in machine learning, deep learning, or AI, and a background in protein design, computational biology, or structural bioinformatics, to join our multi-disciplinary team. You will work on AI models for protein and immune structure design, helping to translate research advances into robust, scalable systems that accelerate biological discovery.
This role is part of InstaDeep's collaboration with BioNTech, focused on developing cutting-edge AI solutions for immunotherapy and vaccine design.
In this role, you will design, implement, and optimize AI models for protein structure and function design, collaborating with Applied Research Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Biologists. Your work will directly contribute to advancing computational protein engineering and accelerating the discovery of novel therapeutics.
Keywords: Protein Structures, Computational Biology, Protein Design, Statistics, Data Analysis, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Therapeutic Discovery
Responsibilities

• Advance the state of the art in AI and/or biological sciences, particularly in areas such as structural biology, protein engineering, and de novo design.
• Develop and optimize AI models for protein design and drug development.
• Build and maintain data pipelines, training workflows, and evaluation tools.
• Integrate structural and sequence data into modeling frameworks.
• Collaborate across teams to translate research ideas into high-quality, deployable code and models.
• Ensure reproducibility, performance, and scalability of implemented solutions.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related field (PhD a plus).
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
• Understanding of protein structures and sequence data, ideally with PDB, AlphaFold, or Rosetta.
• Experience with machine learning for biological applications or generative modeling (e.g., diffusion, transformers, VAEs).
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills in interdisciplinary teams.
• Desirable
• Experience in protein design / structure modeling.
• Familiarity with structural biology tools (e.g., PyMOL, Biopython).
• Prior experience in AI research projects for biology or large-scale model training.

70,000 - 90,000 a year
This salary displayed above is for the job's primary location, which is London.
You can find below the other salary range of the rest of locations where we are hiring.
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Location: Paris
Salary range: 65,000 - 85,000 Euros

Our commitment to our people
We empower individuals to celebrate their uniqueness here at InstaDeep. Our team comes from all walks of life, and we're proud to continue encouraging and supporting applicants from underrepresented groups across the globe. Our commitment to creating an authentic environment comes from our ability to learn and grow from our diversity, and how better to experience this than by joining our team? We operate on a hybrid work model with guidance to work at the office 3 days per week to encourage close collaboration and innovation. We are continuing to review the situation with the well-being of InstaDeepers at the forefront of our minds.
Right to work: Please note that you will require the legal right to work without visa sponsorship in the location you are applying for. We do not sponsor work visas.

Skills Required