Senior Scientist – AI Lead; f​/m​/d

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Senior Scientist – AI Lead (f/m/d) 80-100%

Join Our Innovative Biotech Company - Athebio

Founded in late 2019, Athebio is a profitable highly innovative biotech company dedicated to making a meaningful impact in drug development. We specialize in developing advanced biotherapeutics with pharma partners based on Designed Ankyrin Repeat Proteins (DARPins) and enable the design and creation a variety of modalities including radiotherapeutics, ADCs, AAV, LNP and T cell engagers.

We explore and unlock the full therapeutic potential of repeat proteins and make it broadly available, with a commitment to scientific excellence, innovation and teamwork
. Our mission is to support innovative drug developers to create next‑generation biologics by providing tailor‑made repeat proteins and supporting them with in‑depth expertise and superb service
.

A Role You Will Shape: This is a newly created position with a company‑wide mandate. You will decide, together with the management, what artificial intelligence means in practice at Athebio — and then implement it across the organization.

AI Practitioners Welcome: If you have a proven track record of professionally using AI tools in the daily work processes of a biotech company far beyond e‑mail drafting and creating summaries for you and your colleagues, we’d love to hear from you.

Science First: We are looking for a person with a solid knowledge on proteins, from selection to design (preferably partially hands on as well). Everything you build here will serve the purpose of making our science work faster, better, and/or more reliable.

Growth Opportunity: Are you ready to grow with us? At Athebio, you won’t just be an employee; you’ll be an active participant in shaping our company’s future.

Your responsibilities

• Make AI Real at Athebio: Shape the next stage how AI is used m fragmented single use to an establishment of a company‑wide secure AI environment such as Claude Cowork and make sure it is widely adopted and used effectively across the company, not merely installed.
• Teach and Multiply: Help colleagues in research, project management and business functions to use AI well in a life‑science setting. Run hands‑on sessions, build internal playbooks, prompt and skill libraries, and be a key point of contact when they get stuck.
• Build Agents for DARPin Discovery: Design and build agentic workflows that orchestrate publicly available protein‑design tools around our Athebody® DARPin scaffold, e.g., turning a partner target structure into ranked designs and focused libraries for our selection platform.
• Project leader skills: Work with the end in mind and successfully manage AI deployment and in silico binder generation for the benefit of Athebio. You successfully communicate with stakeholders on all levels and prioritize achievable, tangible delivery over the “ideal” solution.
• Streamline How We Work: Map our internal processes end to end, find where time and accuracy are lost, and re‑design them with automation from campaign documentation and data analysis to partner reporting.
• Set the Standard: Define how AI is used responsibly at Athebio, what may be shared, how outputs are verified, how work is documented and thereby protecting both our trade secrets and our scientific rigour.
• Knowledge Expansion: Track a rapidly evolving field, identify developments with practical value, and continuously expand your own and the team’s expertise.

Key requirements

• • M.Sc. or Ph.D. in biochemistry, molecular biology, protein science, bioinformatics or a related life‑science discipline.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a life‑science research environment, ideally in biotech or pharma.
  • Demonstrable “super‑user” command of current AI assistants and agentic tools…