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Radical Numerics
CompanyRadical Numerics
CategoryData & Analytics
LocationSan Francisco
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelNot stated
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted17 Mar 2026
Last verified9 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (ashby)
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Description
ABOUT US Radical Numerics http://radicalnumerics.ai is an AI research lab building general biological intelligence. Our mission is to master the code of life, and our purpose is to reduce human suffering. Our team created Evo, and started the field of generative genomics. Our work was featured on the cover of Science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9336, and presented by our CEO on the main stage of TED2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnbfoFUFm2s. Evo was used to create the first AI gene therapy tool CRISPR-Cas9, and the first AI whole genome https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1 from scratch. Evo 2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10176-5, featured in Nature, is the largest fully open source AI project across any domain. Radical Numerics is bringing the rigor of distributed systems, model architecture, and numerics research to the challenges of biology. We’ve redesigned the foundation model training stack to turn the world’s raw scientific data (e.g. biological sequences, experiments, and physical processes), into intelligible, generative models that can expand and accelerate what humanity can understand, design, and cure. The same generative breakthroughs that enable life-saving cures also lowers the barrier to creating engineered threats and AI-generated bioweapons. We believe these forces are inseparable. Radical Numerics was founded to develop both the power to design and the responsibility to defend. ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking research scientists and engineers working at the intersection of machine learning and biological modeling to develop frontier AI architectures for biological problems. In this role, you will extend and adapt large model backbones—such as sequence and multimodal foundation models—to enable tasks across genomics, protein biology, and cellular systems. This includes designing post-training pipelines, domain adaptation strategies, and evaluation frameworks that enable state-of-the-art  ML frameworks  to reason over biological data.  You likely know the inner workings of frontier bio models such as AlphaFold, AlphaGenome, ESM, Evo, and thought about ways to improve, evaluate or apply them in novel ways. You will collaborate with computational biologists to systems architecture researchers to translate advances in large-scale machine learning into capabilities for modeling biological systems, ranging from genome interpretation and regulatory modeling to multimodal cellular prediction and biological design. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Adapt frontier AI models to biological tasks through fine-tuning, post-training, adapters, and architectural modifications. - Design and run experiments applying large models to problems in genomics, regulatory biology, protein biology, or cellular systems. - Develop evaluation pipelines and benchmarks for biological tasks such as variant interpretation, gene regulation modeling, protein function prediction, and multimodal cellular modeling — and drive these capabilities toward grounded downstream biological impact. - Design biologically meaningful data representations and modeling schemes across sequence, molecular, and multimodal data modalities. - Analyze model behavior and run ablations to understand model reasoning and failure modes in biological contexts. - Explore modern mechanistic interpretability pipelines and methods for biological discovery. - Collaborate with model architecture teams to integrate biological capabilities into next-generation foundation models. - Prototype new approaches for biological prediction and design using foundation models. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Strong background and intuition in machine learning and deep learning across large-scale generative architectures, from autoregressive LLMs to diffusion models.  - Experience adapting large models to new domains through fine-tuning, post-training, adapters, or architecture modification