Insitro
Senior Manager, Imaging Machine Learning
$247K–$262K
South San Francisco, CA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 11, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of people management; no total years of professional experience stated.
About the job
Leads and grows a machine learning team developing computer vision methods and microscopy assays to extract biological insights and support drug discovery.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of machine learning scientists, setting team goals and strategic roadmaps.
- Partner with laboratory scientists to develop in-vitro microscopy assays and with computational biology and software teams to translate and scale methods.
- Develop and qualify imaging data methods, contribute to method and code reviews, and help shape the imaging software platform.
What they ask for
- Strong grounding in computer vision and machine learning, with demonstrated application to pixel data for quantitative features and biological insight.
- Working understanding of imaging principles and hands-on experience with cellular imaging datasets.
- 3+ years of people management, including solid-line management of multiple individual contributors and at least one senior (Staff-level) scientist or engineer.
- Track record of mentoring technical talent, technical leadership, and cross-functional communication and collaboration.
Nice to have
- Experience with additional high-content modalities, genetic perturbation screening, or imaging data-quality methods.
- Disease-area knowledge or experience contributing to an imaging/computer vision software platform.
Pay
$247,000 - $262,000 USD base salary
Tools
computer vision, machine learning, VLMs, self-supervised classification, perturb-seq
AI focus
Develops computer vision and machine learning methods for in-vitro microscopy, including data-quality methods using agentic frameworks, VLMs, and self-supervised classification, to support biological discovery.
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