AI/ML Scientist, Imaging and Model Development
Cellino
About Cellino
Cellino is building the infrastructure for regenerative medicine. Our AI-guided, automated iPSC manufacturing platform brings semiconductor-grade precision to cell therapy production, making personalized regenerative treatments accessible at scale. Backed by $96M in funding and an FDA Advanced Manufacturing Technology designation, we're transforming how cell therapies are made, moving from artisanal, manual processes to automated, reproducible manufacturing.
We believe the future of medicine lies in cellular medicine. If you want to work on hard problems at the intersection of biology, engineering, and AI, with real impact on human health, this is the place.
The Role
AI is central to how we take Cellino’s vision to real patients. We’re looking for an ML Scientist to work as part of Cellino’s Data and ML team to build the production-level AI capabilities for the Cellino Platform. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge computer vision research and real-world cell manufacturing — designing algorithms that augment and automate human decision points with learned decision policies across our Cellino Platform.
This is a high-ownership, applied role — not pure research. You'll own work end-to-end: from image processing with optical engineers to experimental design with biologists to deployed pipelines processing petabytes of microscopy data. You've brought work from concept to deployment, and that experience informs how you approach problems.
Responsibilities
- Own the full model lifecycle — dataset generation, annotation, model architecture design, training, evaluation, monitoring, and management
- Collaborate closely with biologists and lab automation engineers to design large-scale experiments that mature and productionize new capabilities
- Write production-quality code and participate actively in code reviews
- Stay current with ML and computer vision literature and translate relevant advances into practical improvements
- Produce clear architecture documentation and present technical milestones to a multidisciplinary team
Requirements
- Demonstrated depth in ML and computer vision — through an MS/PhD, industry experience, or a combination of both
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, hands-on model development, and deployment experience
- 5+ years of experience delivering AI/ML systems, industry experience preference
- Deep expertise in image processing — you've worked with large-scale, high-dimensional image data. Experience with biological or biomedical images (microscopy, pathology, radiology) strongly preferred
- Strong hands-on experience with ML and vision frameworks, such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, scikit-learn, OpenCV
- Solid Python fundamentals and enough software engineering discipline to write code that others can maintain and build on
- Experience designing and running experiments rigorously — you know the difference between a result and a finding
- Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
Nice-to-Have Skills and Background
- Hands-on experience specifically with fluorescence, phase contrast, or brightfield microscopy image analysis
- Familiarity with cell segmentation, colony detection, morphology quantification, or related bioimage analysis tasks
- Background in biology, biophysics, or adjacent life sciences
- Experience with self-supervised, contrastive, or foundation model approaches for vision
- Reinforcement learning or sequential decision-making experience
- Time-to-event or reliability modeling experience
- Experience in cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS
Why Cellino
- Mission-driven work: We're building the foundation for regenerative medicine that can reach everyone, not just the wealthy few
- Technical depth: Work with cutting-edge technologies at the intersection of biology, engineering, and AI
- Real impact: FDA designation, clinical partnerships (including Mass General Brigham), and a clear path to patients
- Growth stage: Small enough to move fast, large enough to build something real
- Competitive compensation: Salary, equity, benefits, and the opportunity to be part of something transformative
Actual compensation is determined based on experience, education, role-specific competencies, internal equity with employees in similar positions, and employer-verified market data provided by an independent third-party partner. In addition to base salary, Cellino offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes equity compensation, medical, dental, and vision coverage, childcare support, a family leave program, flexible time off, commute subsidies, and more.
Equal Opportunity Statement
It is the policy of Cellino Biotech, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, pregnancy, marital status, age, sexual orientation, and military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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