ML Research Scientist - De Novo Design
Merge Labs
San Francisco, CA · Posted November 2, 2026
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About the job
...Merge Labs is a frontier research lab with the mission of bridging... ...collaborates extensively with wet-lab scientists, automation engineers, and... ...iterative design–build–test– learn (DBTL) cycles. Starting from... ...code. Experience bridging machine learning and experimental science...