Postdoctoral Researcher, Zhou Lab
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About Arc Institute
Arc Institute is an independent nonprofit research organization at the interface of artificial intelligence and biology, working to accelerate scientific progress and understand the root causes of complex diseases. Founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, Arc partners with Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco.
Unlike academia, our scientists have long-term funding and industry-like resources. Unlike industry, they're free to pursue high-risk, long-term research without commercial pressures. Arc's Technology Centers and Core Investigator labs work side by side, integrating experimental and computational biology under one roof to tackle problems neither could solve alone.
Our two Institute Initiatives reflect this model in action:
More than 300 Arconauts work together at our Palo Alto headquarters, backed by substantial long-term philanthropic funding.
About the position
The Zhou Lab is looking for motivated, hard-working and curious applicants. Our expertise is in single-cell epigenomic modeling. We use high-throughput single-cell multiomic technologies and build computational models to study spatiotemporal dynamics of gene regulation.
The successful candidate will play a crucial role in advancing the state-of-the-art in generative AI applied to biology, including DNA sequence, gene regulation, and perturbation modeling. You will focus on developing ML models for biological data, leveraging frontier approaches such as novel ML architectures, interpretability techniques, and more. You will also apply your models for important computational biology applications in genome mining, molecular technology development, and invention of new therapeutic approaches.
This role is a unique opportunity to advance state-of-the-art machine learning in genomics and cell biology, contribute to high-impact scientific discoveries, and help define how computational approaches shape our understanding and engineering of biology. You will work in a highly collaborative team with expert experimental biologists to realize the full impact of your work, and also have the opportunity to contribute to Institute-wide machine learning efforts such as Arc’s Virtual Cell Initiative.
Post-docs will be encouraged to lead independent projects resulting in high impact publications, present at conferences and prepare for long-term careers in academia or industry.
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The minimum base salary for this position is $80,000. Base salary for this role is determined by how many months of relevant postdoctoral experience a successful candidate has. Base salary for this role is not negotiable. Organization Arcinstitute Location Palo Alto, CA Position type Postdoc Posted June 11, 2026 Source Greenhouse/arcinstitute Midwestern University - Downers Grove Mayo Brown University University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Ellison Institute of Technology Ellison Institute of Technology
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