Postdoc – Foundation Models for Biomedicine: Join an interdisciplinary team of experts in high-performance computing (HPC), machine learning (ML), and biomedicine to contribute to the VirtualCell project, aiming to predict complex cellular behaviors in health and disease through multimodal foundation models.
Postdoc – High-Performance Computing & Foundation Models for Biomedicine
Designation
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Area
High-Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Biomedicine
Location
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Eligibility/Qualification
- Education: Master’s degree and preferably a PhD in computer science, natural sciences, mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience: Strong scientific record demonstrated through publications in relevant journals; solid background in quantitative/statistical methods.
- Skills:
- Expertise in at least one of the following: HPC, training large AI models (e.g., PyTorch/JAX/TensorFlow), data analysis/statistics.
- Excellent programming skills in Python (C/C++ is a plus); experience with HPC environments (e.g., SLURM) is welcome.
- Interest in biological questions and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Very good English skills; knowledge of German is an advantage.
- Desirable: Experience with multimodal omics data or medical imaging data; contributions to open-source projects.
Job Description
In this role, you will:
- Set up and optimize large-scale training and inference runs for foundation models on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer.
- Integrate diverse data sources (e.g., scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, spatial transcriptomics) into models and develop efficient data/training pipelines.
- Collaborate on application cases focused on disease modeling, prediction of cell states, and patient stratification.
- Contribute to the development of model architectures (e.g., transformers, multimodal fusion).
- Present results at conferences and publish in peer-reviewed journals.
How to Apply
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Last Date to Apply
The job will remain open until the position is successfully filled. We encourage applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
