Staff Data Scientist, Computational Biology

The role

You will drive software and data products for Target Identification and Prioritization. You will act as a product owner, technical strategist, and rapid prototyper to deliver tools for discovery teams.

What you will do

• Own the product roadmap for Target ID software.
• Gather and prioritize scientific requirements from internal users.
• Translate use cases into technical specifications for engineering teams.
• Rapidly prototype computational solutions using Python.
• Develop and maintain internal packages, reproducible workflows, and APIs.
• Establish documentation, onboarding materials, and best practices for internal platform usage.
• Lead cross-functional project execution (data engineering, software engineering).
• Follow good engineering practices (i.e. CI/CD, predictable demo cadence, etc.).

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's/ Master's degree in relevant field (computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, computer science) or equivalent relevant education and experience
• 6+ years industry experience in computational biology or data-driven discovery
• minimum 1 years’ experience in software engineering and data engineering teams
• Proficiency working with programming languages Python, and R, modern development frameworks and developing internal packages
• Experience with omics/translational data analysis, scalable ETL pipelines, data modeling, and associated QC
• 1+ years’ experience leading complex projects as product owner
• Experience supporting target identification, prioritization, or multi-modal analysis

Nice to have

• Experience with dashboard development (e.g. Shiny, Dash, Streamlit, React, Veu.js)
• Understanding of cloud-native tools and modern data platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Familiarity with the drug discovery and development process

Benefits

• healthcare coverage
• annual incentive program
• retirement benefits
• broad range of other benefits

Before you apply

• only able to consider candidates who currently have permanent US work authorization without the need for immediate or future sponsorship

About the company

Valo Health is a human-centric, AI-enabled biotechnology company working to make new drugs for patients faster. The company’s Opal Computational Platform transforms drug discovery and development through a unique combination of real-world data, AI, human translational models and predictive chemistry.