Platform Scientist: Protein Evolution

A Bit About Us: 

We're Arcadia Science, an evolutionary biology company founded and led by scientists. Our mission is to turn natural innovations into real-world solutions by developing systematic and quantitative approaches to leveraging biology for therapeutics R&D. We share our research as openly as possible to accelerate discovery and engage with the broader scientific community.

The Opportunity:

Arcadia is studying biology with evolution as our guide. Our tools, methods, and frameworks probe the tree of life to identify innovations, novelties, and organisms that accelerate our basic and translational research. We're seeking a scientist with deep experience in protein evolution to substantially expand our platform. 

The Platform Scientist will be part of a collaborative team developing approaches to investigate protein evolution in an integrative way, considering amino acid sequences, protein structures, and protein functional variation. Scientists in this role will develop novel approaches to map and predict protein biology over macroevolutionary timescales. These contributions will be instrumental in developing new tools, validating existing tools, testing novel hypotheses, identifying knowledge and dataset gaps, and driving the creation of new computational approaches for studying protein evolution at Arcadia.

Top candidates are inventive scientists with deep experience addressing evolutionary questions related to protein characteristics to unlock novel insights. They're excited to explore new and challenging datasets, familiar with developing novel analysis pipelines, and thrive in collaborative, open research environments. Enthusiasm and participation in open science are also required as we routinely share our findings via our open-source pubs.