About this opportunity
Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) lists this Postdoc in Harness, Swarm and Memory Engineering for Computational Biology opportunity in town of belgium, Wisconsin. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About the lab
The Laboratory of Causal Systems Immunology combines causal inference, probabilistic AI and large-scale in vivo perturbation experiments to uncover how genes shape immune-cell states and predict how the immune system responds to interventions. This tight integration of advanced machine learning and experimental immunology allows us to tackle fundamental biological questions with direct biomedical relevance. We are embedded in both the VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology—a young, ambitious center whose research groups address biological questions through the lens of AI—and the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, where we collaborate closely with leading experimental immunologists to unravel the cellular and molecular mechanisms of inflammatory diseases.
About the position
The lab is looking for a postdoc to further develop agentic pipelines that autonomously manage computational tasks:
You oversee dozens of computational biology tasks across biological disciplines
You launch agent swarms solving these tasks and monitor their progress
You communicate with task experts to understand ongoing and emerging biological needs and translate them into new tasks
In collaboration with our wet-lab team and collaborators, you identify and integrate validation data
In collaboration with the VIB.AI ML unit, you manage a large codebase containing the harness, interpretation, memory, tasks, swarm behaviour and source datasets
You formulate and test hypotheses that may improve the harness, long-term memory and/or swarming behaviour
You present your research at international conferences and publish in scientific journals
You contribute to the supervision of PhD students working in these areas
Your profile
Excited to bring biology into the agentic era
Broad interest across biological domains is a must
PhD in computational biology, computer engineering, computer science, (bio)statistics, artificial intelligence, physics, or related.
Desire to push the frontier of both biology and (agent-driven) software engineering
Fluency in written and spoken English
Embraces complexity
Our offer
An interdisciplinary environment spanning wet-lab, technology-development and computational teams
Access to unpublished validation data unavailable to existing agents
State-of-the-art computing capable of running dozens of local large language models concurrently
Data from emerging technologies through core facilities and tech watch
Direct connection to a growing team of LLM engineers at VIB
Part of a dynamic research center with other groups sharing this missionA competitive salary and full benefits
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