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As the Director of Bioinformatics for PsychoGenics, you will take a lead role in transforming the process of drug discovery. This position is for the Machine Learning PhD who can apply these methods to real world science. Working with leading experts in science and informatics, you will develop new methodologies for high throughput in vivo drug discovery. Your research will significantly reduce the cost of screening drugs and thus result in a drastic increase in the number of new drugs found.

PsychoGenics is a growing, 50+ person, well-funded company in Tarrytown, New York. Our founders recognized the need for a company to focus on CNS research and the bottlenecks in the drug discovery process. As a result, we have developed the first high-throughput in vivo behavioral testing system, which is transforming CNS drug discovery. Our other work in this area includes phenotyping knockouts and transgenics, and secondary screening of compounds.

As our Director of Bioinformatics based in Tarrytown, NY, your first assignment will be developing algorithms for our drug discovery system. It combines complex hardware with computer-vision algorithms and bioinformatics. To contribute to further development, you will need an exceptional understanding of Machine Learning algorithms, such as decision trees, bagging, boosting, support vector machines, and logistic regression, as well as the proven ability to create new ones. Knowledge of reinforcement learning and optimization methods will also be useful. The field of Machine Learning and this position involves the integration of computational methods with both traditional and newer statistical methods, so a solid understanding of statistics is required. You should be able to program well, and code algorithms with command-line interfaces or simple GUIs. This is a tremendous opportunity with a dynamic company in a demanding environment.

Contact:
TO APPLY: Send a resume and cover letter to job265@psychogenics.com.