Senior Data Scientist - ML to cure diseases

Senior Data Scientist - Biotech

New Haven, Connecticut / Boston, Massachusetts

An opportunity to solve some of the biggest diseases using Machine Learning.

The Company:

• Niche Biotech making waves in the fields of immune-oncology and neuroscience with drugs at clinical stages

• Utilizes novel artificial intelligence to identify the next wave of medicines

• Repositions drugs and takes them through the journey of clinical development

• IPO’d one year ago, stock values have doubled since

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

What you need to succeed:

• 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

What’s on offer:

-          Become a key part of an agile and growing niche biotech firm

-          Competitive package