POSITION SUMMARY: 

Natera is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer within our Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team, focused on cancer genomics and medical imaging. Leveraging a wealth of both genomic and imaging data, the successful candidate will play a key role in implementing and expanding state-of-the-art deep learning models and foundation models to drive innovations in precision oncology. This role involves close collaboration with AI researchers, bioinformaticians, and medical professionals to drive innovations in precision medicine.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Model Implementation: Develop and implement state-of-the-art deep learning models, including convolutional neural networks and foundation models, for analyzing genomic sequences, medical imaging, and clinical outcome predictions.
• Model Interpretation: Apply explainable AI (XAI) techniques to interpret multimodal model results of molecular and imaging, ensuring actionable insights for medical experts and business demonstrations.
• Data Pipelining: Perform data wrangling, including cleaning, transforming, and preprocessing large multimodal datasets (e.g., genomic sequences, imaging, and clinical metadata) to ensure quality and consistency for machine learning workflows.
• Reproducibility and Documentation: Ensure reproducibility through well-documented code, annotated workflows, and interactive demonstrations (e.g. in Jupyter notebook) in version-controlled repositories.
• Model Deployment and User Interface: Build and maintain user-friendly, interactive interfaces to enable seamless exploration and interpretation of AI model results by non-technical users, including clinicians and researchers.
• Communications: Communicate scientific results through internal meetings, scientific conferences, and peer-reviewed publications.
• Collaborations: Collaborate with medical experts to guide research and development.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Master’s in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field with 5+ years experience OR 
• PhD in the above fields with 3+ years experiences.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: 

• Strong expertise in PyTorch and associated ecosystems (e.g., Lightning, torchvision, captum, HuggingFace).
• Proven track record in medical imaging for oncology, such as H&E whole-slide imaging, CT scans, immunohistochemistry staining.
• Proficient in Git for version control and Jupyter Notebooks for scientific communication and workflow reproducibility.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and GPU-accelerated computing frameworks is a plus.
• Ability to clearly summarize and communicate results in oral and written form.
• High scientific rigor and eagerness to teach and learn about new machine learning methods and biology.

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

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For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams 
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page