Iambic Therapeutics
Machine Learning Scientist – Clinical Prediction
$148K–$186K
Boston Office +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- Boston Office
Remote - US - Experience
- 3+ years of relevant industry or research experience with an MS; alternatively, PhD or equivalent industry experience demonstrating comparable depth.
- Education
- MS in chemistry, bio/chemical engineering, or a computational STEM field; alternatively, PhD or equivalent industry experience demonstrating comparable depth.
About the job
Fine-tunes and evaluates Iambic’s multimodal transformer for clinical predictions that support drug discovery and development.
What you'll do
- Source, curate, and evaluate clinical datasets for outcome, safety, toxicity, and PK/PD prediction.
- Build leakage-resistant experiments, benchmarks, and calibrated models with clinically meaningful evaluation metrics.
- Work with ML, software, clinical, and pharmacology colleagues to deploy models and communicate findings.
What they ask for
- MS in chemistry, bio/chemical engineering, or a computational STEM field with 3+ years of relevant industry or research experience, or PhD or equivalent industry experience demonstrating comparable depth.
- Strong Python experience implementing and fine-tuning deep learning models.
- Demonstrated experience in clinical science or working with clinical datasets.
- Strong data science and engineering skills, including reproducible experimentation, control strategies, clean code, and testing.
Nice to have
- Experience building and deploying clinically relevant prediction models.
- Familiarity with ClinicalTrials.gov/AACT, MedDRA, pharmacovigilance, adverse event data, multi-task learning, agentic data extraction, or HPC/large-scale computing.
Pay
$148K – $186K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Docker, CUDA, Kubernetes, Weights & Biases, ClinicalTrials.gov/AACT, MedDRA
AI focus
Fine-tuning large-scale multimodal transformer models for clinical and biomedical prediction, including trial outcomes, safety/toxicity, and PK/PD response.
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