Applications Scientist - Protein Design

Tamarind Bio · San Francisco, CA, US

Y Combinator First seen May 17, 2026

As an Applications Scientist at Tamarind, you’ll guide customers in using state-of-the art molecular design tools, provide strategic scientific support, and produce educational content for scientists’ benefit.

What you’ll do:

  • Provide scientific support to existing and prospective customers, focusing on practical applications of molecular AI in therapeutic programs.
  • Write high quality educational content for tens of thousands of scientists’ consumption
  • Publish and present at scientific conferences
  • Troubleshoot customer pipelines, tickets, tool use problems

Qualifications:

  • PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, structural biology, biophysics or a related field
  • Expertise in the application of machine learning methods for biologics design, especially as applied to therapeutic programs for antibodies, peptides, and enzymes
  • Programming skills with fluency in manipulating biological data such as molecular structures, sequences, and databases
  • Willingness to travel for conferences and customer on-site visits