Biological Structures Data Engineer I/II

About the role

This role is located in the Boston office and is hybrid. It is part of the Technology & Software department at Iambic Therapeutics.

Responsibilities

• Understand, maintain, and enhance existing data pipelines, including parsing and validation of structural data (.cif/PDB and beyond)
• Integrate and adapt data from a range of public and proprietary sources into reliable, reusable pipelines
• Work closely with ML scientists to ensure their data needs are met
• Ensure all data is stored in a secure, robust, and retrievable manner
• Perform code reviews and exemplify software engineering best practices
• Communicate technical work effectively across a cross-functional research and engineering team

Requirements

• Engineer I: PhD or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Cheminformatics or a related field
• Engineer II: PhD or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Cheminformatics or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Hands-on familiarity with structural biology data — .cif files, the PDB, and the practical challenges of working with real-world molecular structures
• Strong software engineering practices, with a focus on maintainable, well-tested systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Comfortable operating in a research-driven environment; developing, learning, and adapting cutting edge technologies
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to communicate across a cross-functional research and engineering team

Qualifications

• Engineer I: PhD or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Cheminformatics or a related field
• Engineer II: PhD or equivalent experience in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Cheminformatics or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Hands-on familiarity with structural biology data — .cif files, the PDB, and the practical challenges of working with real-world molecular structures
• Strong software engineering practices, with a focus on maintainable, well-tested systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Comfortable operating in a research-driven environment; developing, learning, and adapting cutting edge technologies
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to communicate across a cross-functional research and engineering team

Skills

• Designing data pipelines or data infrastructure for heterogeneous or large-scale datasets
• Familiarity with additional drug-discovery-relevant data types
• Experience contributing to a data lake or comparable centralized data platform
• Familiarity with auxiliary data or data transformations relevant to protein structure prediction
• Exposure to cloud-based systems (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes) and/or HPC
• Background bridging science and software engineering

Benefits

Iambic offers industry leading competitive pay, company paid healthcare, flexible spending accounts, voluntary life insurance, 401K matching, and uncapped vacation to our team. We are in a brand-new state-of-the art facility in beautiful San Diego with an onsite gym, dining, and easy access to great places to live and play.

Pay

Compensation Range: $129.6K - $190K