Senior AI Scientist

About us Owkin is an agentic AI company pioneering Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve problems in biology where human researchers alone have failed. Owkin builds K Pro - an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making. K Pro orchestrates a suite of AI skills and tools to decode complex biology, accelerate research, and dramatically increase productivity. K Pro is built on Owkin’s unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners. Please submit your CV in English About the role: We are looking for a visionary ML/AI Scientist to co-lead the development of our AI Scientist —an autonomous agentic system designed to navigate the complexities of drug discovery, in collaboration with our Platform Biology team and our Product team. This role is about building a "scientists in a box" that can reason over biological data, design experiments, and autonomously drive therapeutic breakthroughs. Unlike traditional ML roles that focus on single-task optimization, you will be building a meta-researcher . You’ll be at the heart of Owkin’s mission, creating the engine that will discover the next generation of life-saving therapeutics. In particular, you will: Architect Agentic Systems: Design and implement sophisticated AI agents capable of multi-step reasoning, tool-use, and self-correction. Bridge AI and Wet-Lab: Develop frameworks where agents can propose hypotheses and design "optimal experiments" to be validated in a wet-lab. Scale the "Hacker" Approach: Rapidly prototype and iterate on agentic architectures, moving from paper to production-grade code with speed and precision. Scientific Leadership: Maintain a watch on the frontier of GenAI and Agentic workflows, publishing high-impact research at the intersection of AI, Biology and Chemistry. About you The successful candidate possesses a "hacker spirit" , e.g., you don’t just wait for the perfect dataset, you build the tools to find it. You are independent, deeply curious, and obsessed with the idea of automating the scientific method. Core Requirements: Demonstrated Expertise in Agentic AI: Deep understanding of LLM reasoning (Chain-of-Thought, ReAct), long-context management, and tool-augmented generation. The Hacker Toolkit: Expert-level Python skills with a focus on "building." You should be comfortable writing clean, modular code that interfaces with complex APIs and databases. Technical Foundation: PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or Applied Mathematics (or equivalent high-level industry experience). Communication: Ability to explain complex agent behaviors to both AI peers and biological experts. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Fluent in English (French is a plus). Team first , highly collaborative mindset. Preferred Qualifications (The "Big Plus") We are especially interested in candidates who bring Computational Biology or Chemistry expertise to