Senior Data Scientist - Biotech

An opportunity to solve some of the biggest diseases using Artificial Intelligence.

Location: New Haven, Conneticut (other locations potentially considered).

The Company:

Niche Biotech firm that utilizes novel artificial intelligence to identify the next wave of medicines across neuroscience and immuno-oncology
IPO’d one year ago, stock values have doubled since
Repositions drugs and takes them through the journey of clinical development
Has drugs in clinical trials in the fields of immune-oncology and neuroscience

What you’ll do:

Develop innovative AI-based technologies that interface data science with cutting-edge biological and clinical science, and to find new uses for existing medicines
Introduce machine learning into all aspects of computational repositioning and clinical trials
Participate in presentations and consultations to business stakeholders on analytics results and solutions
Work with molecular data and collaboratively develop new analytical techniques specifically for immune-oncology and neuroscience

Requirements:

Business acumen with the ability to translate technical concepts in simple terms
6+ years expertise building statistical models using machine learning techniques, classification, predictive analytics etc
Software development fundamentals, programming in Python, R, SQL etc
Ability to use GitHub/Jira/Linux System Administration
Have worked in the biomedical or life sciences fields previously, been exposed to biology data, either through academia / professionally, preferably pharma
Worked with molecular/omic data, next-generation sequencing (NGS), RNA-SEQ, Gene expression
Ability to use Deep Learning, NLP methods is a bonus
Ability to do database work is a bonus

What’s on offer: