Postdoctoral Fellow - AI for Drug Discovery, Frontier Research

Job description

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Genentech. We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join the AI for Drug Discovery department of the Genentech Computational Sciences Center of Excellence (CS CoE). This position is based in Frontier Research, a specialized unit dedicated to foundational machine learning research and the development of new algorithmic frameworks. The postdoctoral position focuses on developing scalable methods for sequential experimental design in modern machine learning systems, with applications to hyperparameter optimization, model selection, and compute-aware adaptation. The project will combine theoretical and algorithmic ideas from Bayesian optimization, meta learning, and multi-fidelity learning to build decision procedures that can exploit partial or intermediate observations and improve with accumulated experience across tasks. The broader aim is to make experimentation with large models more principled, sample-efficient,...