Job Description
Senior Data Scientist - Biotech
New Haven, Connecticut / Boston, Massachusetts
An opportunity to solve some of the biggest diseases using Machine Learning.
The Company:
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Niche Biotech making waves in the fields of immune-oncology and neuroscience with drugs at clinical stages
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Utilizes novel artificial intelligence to identify the next wave of medicines
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Repositions drugs and takes them through the journey of clinical development
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IPO’d one year ago, stock values have doubled since
What you’ll do:
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Develop innovative AI-based technologies that interface data science with cutting-edge biological and clinical science, and to find new uses for existing medicines
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Introduce machine learning into all aspects of computational repositioning and clinical trials
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Participate in presentations and consultations to business stakeholders on analytics results and solutions
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Work with molecular data and collaboratively develop new analytical techniques specifically for immune-oncology and neuroscience
What you need to succeed:
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Business acumen with the ability to translate technical concepts in simple terms
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6+ years expertise building statistical models using machine learning techniques, classification, predictive analytics etc
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Software development fundamentals, programming in Python, R, SQL etc
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Ability to use GitHub/Jira/Linux System Administration
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Have worked in the biomedical or life sciences fields previously, been exposed to biology data, either through academia / professionally, preferably pharma
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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
