Scientist, Predictive Biology and AI

Working with Us

Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Scientist, Predictive Biology and AI

LOCATION

Seattle, Brisbane CA, San Diego CA, Cambridge MA, Princeton NJ

Overview

The Predictive Biology and AI (PBAI) team within BMS Research develops and applies cutting-edge methods to address patient needs and answer fundamental questions in Oncology, Neuroscience, and other application areas. We work closely with our wetlab partners to both test and deliver our predictions into the pipeline as well as integrate the data they generate into our models. We seek a collaborative AI expert possessing skills spanning machine learning and statistics as well as a passion for addressing unmet patient needs. The successful candidate will thoughtfully evaluate and adapt state-of-the-art AI models and techniques to challenges in cell engineering and target discovery. The role offers the opportunity to impact directly the delivery of truly transformational and life-changing therapies in key diseases of unmet medical need.

Responsibilities

• Apply, adapt, and in some cases create multi-modal foundation models such as large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and encoder architectures to answer biological domain-specific questions
• Address real-world biological modeling challenges such as data sparsity, class imbalance, noise, experimental bias, and heterogeneity of effects
• Thoughtful model evaluation that incorporates appropriate benchmarks, statistical tests, and problem understanding to support technical and business decisions
• Work in close collaboration with partners across the organization including wet-lab scientists, Research IT, and other computational scientists to broaden the impact of AI developments
• Maintain and share up-to-date knowledge of modern advances in the field, including presenting work at public conferences

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation Overview :

Brisbane - CA - US : $141,150 - $171,042

Cambridge Crossing : $141,150 - $171,042

Princeton - NJ - US : $122,740 - $148,732

San Diego - CA - US : $135,010 - $163,605

Seattle - WA : $135,010 - $163,605

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role :

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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