Scientist​/Senior Scientist, Multimodal AI

Scientist / Senior Scientist, Multimodal AI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA;
San Diego, CA

Our mission is to restore cell health and resilience through cell rejuvenation to reverse disease, injury, and the disabilities that can occur throughout life.

Our Single Altos Value:
Everyone Owns Achieving Our Inspiring Mission.

Altos Labs has been named one of the Top 3 Biotech Companies and ranked for the second year on the Forbes 2026 Best Startups in America list. At Altos, exceptional scientists and industry leaders from around the world work together to advance a shared mission. Our intentional focus is on Belonging, so that all employees know that they are valued for their unique perspectives.

We are all accountable for sustaining a diverse and inclusive environment.

Altos Labs is building a world-class AI ecosystem to solve the most complex problems in human biology. You will directly design and build high-performance, scalable solutions that unify high-dimensional biomedical imaging with molecular and language data.

By implementing large-scale multimodal data fusion, you will move beyond simple image analysis to create predictive models that map across biological domains. You will be hands-on with the data and the code, collaborating with our engineering team to ensure these models are scalable, efficiently trainable on distributed cloud infrastructure, and accessible to our global research community.

• Model Development:
  Design, code, and train large-scale foundation models (e.g., Vision Transformers, Multimodal LLMs) that can embed spatial data and integrate multiple modalities.
• Hands-on Data Fusion:
  Implement innovative cross-domain mapping and fusion strategies to synchronize heterogeneous biological datasets.
• Scaling & Training:
  Build and manage high-performance ML pipelines capable of processing petabyte-scale image repositories and multi-omics streams in a cloud environment.
• Technical
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work directly in the trenches with experimental scientists and software engineers to translate biological complexity into performant code and reliable distributed systems.

We are looking for a technical specialist who thrives on solving "unsolvable" problems through code and rigorous experimentation. We are open to candidates at the Scientist I, Scientist II, or Senior Scientist level based on technical expertise.

• Education:
  
  PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Biomedical Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Hands-on CV Expertise:
  Deep experience building and deploying modern Computer Vision architectures (Vision Transformers, U-Nets, Self-Supervised Learning).
• Distributed Training:
  Proven experience training and fine-tuning large models at scale using frameworks like PyTorch Distributed, Deep Speed, or Jax.
• Programming Mastery:
  Expert-level Python skills, with a focus on building production-ready machine learning code and large-scale data management systems.
• Scientific Contributions: A track record of technical contributions via high-impact publications (CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, etc.) or significant contributions to open-source ML frameworks.

• Direct experience with Multimodal Fusion (e.g., aligning image embeddings with transcriptomic or proteomic data).
• Proficiency with cloud-native AI tools (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker) and building automated MLOps workflows.
• Experience handling the unique noise and sparsity of biological data.

We value collaboration and scientific excellence. We believe that a culture of belonging are foundational to scientific innovation and inquiry. At Altos Labs, exceptional scientists and industry leaders from around the world work together to advance a shared mission. Our intentional focus is on Belonging, so that all employees know that they are valued for their unique perspectives. We are all accountable for sustaining an inclusive environment.

Altos Labs provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Altos prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.