# Computational and Experimental Scientist

About the Role Join a lean team at an early-stage AI-driven biotech company, owning computational and experimental work across protein design, laboratory testing, and model improvement. You will close the design-make-test loop, translating sequences into kinetics data and using results to improve the next round of designs. What You'll Do Improve discrete diffusion and companion folding models for peptide and protein design, including architecture refinements and hierarchical reasoning. Operate and refine an inference platform, investigate usage patterns, and help scientists apply its outputs. Write, debug, and maintain production protocols for liquid-handling robots and plate automation. Run BLI and SPR workflows end to end, from assay design and immobilization through kinetic fitting and quality control. Develop clear protocols for external laboratories and operate internal screening instrumentation. Connect receptor biology, protein structure, scoring, and experimental results to identify failure modes and improve designs. Support scientific platform users and customer workflows, including personalized technical outreach and navigating biotech and pharma purchasing processe

- **Id**: 3882848
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-computational-and-experimental-scientist-7>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:24:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:27:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2676
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 3000
- **Max**: 5000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 60000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:41:15Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 30
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.334
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: seen:3, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 60000
- **Is top pay**: no

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