Tabula Bio
Founding Machine Learning Scientist | San Francisco, CA
hn · San Francisco, CA
Jose has exceptional ML engineering and full-stack systems skills with proven ability to ship AI products end-to-end, including LLM agents and model fine-tuning. However, he lacks demonstrated experience with computational biology, genome design, molecular modeling, or scientific ML—critical for a founding ML scientist role at a biotech company solving phage design problems. His strength is in building production AI systems rather than scientific computing or domain-specific model development.
Hook: Your founding engineer experience shipping LLM agents and ML pipelines from zero to production is exactly what biotech needs, and your M.S. in AI shows you can handle complex technical challenges.
Missing: computational biology, genome sequencing/analysis, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, scientific computing (numpy/scipy deep expertise), experience with biological datasets, protein structure prediction or similar domain ML work
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Tabula Bio | Founding Machine Learning Scientist | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Full-time We use generative ML to design bacteriophages that treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs (bacterial infections). Using phages in this way is not a new idea. Phages already cure patients in research contexts today. But the process is too slow for the ~50K Americans who die each year from antibiotic-resistant infections. Our models make phage therapy fast, and we’re working with real patients today. Join our ML team. Biology experience is not required; what matters is strong machine learning skills and interest in genome design and saving lives with computer science! Email me at ammon@tabulabio.com