Work with us
Our team members are the core of our work, and the inspiration to keep moving forward. Together we've created a one-of-a-kind cell simulation platform that's unique in the world. We foster a creative and transformative culture that encourages collaboration and innovation, and together our mission is to make a difference in the lives of patients through drug discovery, development, and precision medicine. We couldn't have made the progress we have without dedicated and talented people like you.
Open positions
Cytocast is a Hungarian biotech startup behind the Cytocast Digital Twin Patient, an advanced software solution that predicts drug side effects by simulating billions of molecular interactions within human cells. Relying on a wide range of available information on how complex cellular processes work, our solution is revolutionizing drug discovery by accelerating the overall process, reducing costs, and increasing clinical trial success rates. Our ultimate goal is to build a Digital Twin that can incorporate an individual patient’s data and suggest personalized treatments.
Essential Duties Include but Are Not Limited To
- Be part of the ongoing research and development
- Write machine learning modules that integrate into our systems
- Prepare internal reports on KPIs, and explore methods and tools to further improve them
- Apply data engineering skills to locate, extract, and prepare data for machine learning tasks when needed.
This position will focus on building and extending existing solutions to predict drug side effects from changes in how proteins interact due to perturbations. A background in biology or medicine is not required, and this role does not involve using image-processing models.
What we expect
- Medior-level machine learning skills (at least two years of experience in an ML-related position)
- Deep understanding of statistics, model evaluation and common biases
- Familiarity with Pytorch or Tensorflow, Scikit-learn, Pandas
- Experience with neural networks
- At least medium English working proficiency
- Data visualizations skills
- Experience with critical evaluation of SOTA publications, and implementation of described methods
Preferred skills
- Experience with bioinformatics (biological background or worked with healthcare data)
- Experiment logging tools: Tensorboard, MLFlow or similar
- Ability to optimize application performance in Python codebase
- Experience with Docker technology
- Experience with structural biology (and ML models predicting it, e.g. AlphaFold)
- Familiar with unit testing (with frameworks like pytest or similar)
What we offer
We offer a full-time job with a competitive salary and other benefits.
You will be working with a dynamic, youthful team of 15 people. We are working in a hybrid setup, you can work remotely up to three days a week, with at least two days a week in our Budapest downtown office.
How to Apply
Please, submit your CV to job@cytocast.com with a short cover letter in the email body.
Cytocast is a Hungarian biotech startup behind the Cytocast Digital Twin Platform, an advanced software solution that predicts drug side effects by simulating billions of molecular interactions within human cells. Relying on a wide range of available information on how complex cellular processes work, our solution is revolutionizing drug discovery by accelerating the overall process, reducing costs, and increasing clinical trial success rates. Our ultimate goal is to build a Digital Twin that can incorporate an individual patient’s data and suggest personalized treatments.
This position will focus on building and extending existing solutions to predict drug side effects from changes in how proteins interact due to perturbations. Having a background in biology or medicine is not strictly required.
Essential Duties Include but Are Not Limited To
- Be part of the ongoing research and development
- Data engineering (find, clean, and maintain biological datasets)
- Prepare internal reports on KPIs, and explore methods and tools to further improve them
- Follow the ongoing and relevant scientific literature, and incorporate it into our software
What we expect
- Medior-level data scientist or machine learning skills in Python
- Deep understanding of statistics
- At least 2-3 years of experience in startup or corporate environment
- At least medium English working proficiency
Preferred skills
- Experience with bioinformatics (biological background or worked with healthcare data)
- Experience with structural biology (and ML models predicting it, e.g., AlphaFold)
- Data visualization skills
What we offer
We offer a full-time job with a competitive salary and other benefits.
You will be working with a dynamic, youthful team of 15 people. We are working in a hybrid setup, you can work remotely up to three days a week, with at least two days a week in our Budapest downtown office.
How to Apply
Please, submit your CV to job@cytocast.com.
Cytocast is a Hungarian biotech startup developing AI-powered simulations of human cells to accelerate drug discovery and predict drug side effects through computational biology and machine learning.
Position Overview
We are looking for a VP of Research to lead our multidisciplinary research team at the intersection of Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology. In this role, you will drive scientific projects, mentor researchers, and help shape the future of our AI-powered biological simulation platform.
The ideal candidate combines strong scientific expertise with leadership skills and enjoys working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Essential Duties Include but Are Not Limited To
- Follow the ongoing and relevant scientific literature and incorporate it into our platform.
- Plan, coordinate, and supervise research projects from ideation to execution.
- Lead and mentor a team of researchers, bioinformaticians, and machine learning engineers.
- Participate in biological conceptualization and prototype how a cell would react under certain conditions.
- Drive the integration of machine learning methods into bioinformatics workflows.
- Collaborate closely with software engineers, data scientists, and domain experts.
- Apply statistical methods and data analysis to biological and biomedical datasets.
- Evaluate new scientific findings and incorporate relevant advances into our platform.
What we expect
- PhD or MSc in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
- 3–5+ years of professional research experience
- 2+ years of industry (or at least market-driven) experience
- Hands-on experience applying Machine Learning to biological or biomedical problems
- Strong background in bioinformatics and analysis of large-scale biological datasets
- Solid knowledge of statistics, experimental design, and statistical data analysis
- Strong communication skills and professional English proficiency
Preferred skills
- Experience with leadership or project management responsibilities
- Experience within drug development or pharma industry
- Scientific publications in relevant fields are an advantage
What we offer
We offer a full-time job with a competitive salary and other benefits.
We are working in a hybrid setup, you can work remotely up to 3 days a week, with at least two days a week in our Budapest downtown office.
How to Apply
Please, submit your CV to job@cytocast.com with a short cover letter in the email body, stating whether you have a right to work in Hungary.
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