Job Description
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:
- Become a key part of an agile and growing niche biotech firm
- Competitive package
- Work out of the New Haven, Conneticut (other locations potentially considered)
