Senior Scientist, Computational Biology & Machine Learning

Company Overview:

We are currently partnered with one of the most well renowned Biotech Research companies in the world. They are using real-time data and analytics to develop therapeutics more efficiently. Their Drug Development methods are changing the way of Drug Discovery Research. 

Team:

• A team of data scientists and data engineers
• Collaborate with scientists, entrepreneurs, and domain experts

Job Overview:

• Build computational platforms for advancing the research and development of new medicines.
• Develop solutions to challenging computational problems and work with different types of data such as electronic medical records, computational chemistry, biology, imaging, text notes, and clinical trials

• Be part of and lead a team of data scientists and data engineers 
• Develop solutions to core scientific problems
• Be comfortable with scientific risk 
• Articulate and solve large problems by breaking them down into actionable points
• Be able to organize your time and work independently
• Work with clinical and pre-clinical teams
• Sharing and adhering to coding standards

• Ph.D. in computational biology, computer science, or a related discipline
• Strong programming skills with programs such as Python, R, SQL, Scala
• Single-cell analysis experience
• Experience with machine learning, statistical analysis & high throughput analysis
• Must know how to do linear/logistic regression, mixed effect modeling, hierarchical models, Bayesian networks, non-negative matrix factorization, CCA/PLS/LDA, etc.

• Experience with causal inference 
• Experience with tools such as Pandas, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Jupyter, or Spark
• Familiar with traditional drug discovery 
• Know the development processes
• Knowledge of computer science concepts