ML Research Scientist - Computational Biologist/Bioinformatics

Merge Labs is a frontier research lab developing brain-computer interfaces that integrate biological systems with advanced artificial intelligence. The Senior / Principal Computational Biologist will lead large-scale omics pipeline design, integrate multimodal biological data, and collaborate with machine learning teams to derive mechanistic and predictive insights. The role also involves developing computational frameworks that accelerate molecular engineering and experimental discovery.

Responsibilities:

• Build the scientific and engineering scaffolding for bioinformatics and computational biology writ-large. Design, optimize, and maintain pipelines for genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics data
• Collaborate with wet-lab scientists to define tractable optimization objectives and encode domain specific priors and constraints
• Prototype modeling frameworks using internal and public datasets; benchmark and validate performance
• Serve to non-domain experts for democratization of first-principles analysis
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research in computational biology and prototype novel algorithms that can be deployed to improve the company’s discovery or development workflows
• Contribute to the long-term research roadmap and serve as a thought-leader for scientists