Scientist II / Senior Scientist, Computational Biology

About the role

Are you a highly motivated and detail-oriented computational biologist passionate about understanding complex biological systems and disease through single-cell omics and large-scale patient datasets? This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and application of Cellarity’s platform.

Responsibilities

• Apply computational biology and machine learning tools to generate insights and hypotheses from high-dimensional molecular datasets, with a focus on large-scale scRNA-seq & snRNA-seq disease atlases.
• Develop & lead data analysis strategies and ideation across diverse biological and clinically relevant projects with internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as the computational biology co-lead on drug programs, working with experimental scientists to ensure that study designs & data are properly interrogated to deliver high value readouts.
• Present your results in an interdisciplinary team of biologists, chemists, clinicians, technologists, and other machine learning colleagues in meetings covering cross-functional project teams, functional teams, to whole company and management meetings.

Requirements

• Ph.D. or equivalent in biology, computational biology, or related scientific field.
• 2+ years of relevant experience post Ph.D.
• Extensive experience in analyzing and deriving hypothesis from single-cell transcriptomic data, preferably also with large-scale single-cell atlases.
• Demonstrated scientific understanding of molecular and systems biology, diverse molecular data types, and analysis tools.
• Practical programming and scripting skills, preferably in Python.
• Fast learner, analytical thinker, creative, "hands-on", strong communication skills.
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team.

Qualifications

• Background in metabolic or liver diseases, autoimmune disease, or hematology.
• Experience with generating, analyzing, and deriving hypotheses from other single-cell omics data types or large-scale clinical datasets.
• Experience driving an impactful and relevant project within industry.
• Background in statistics or machine learning.
• Experience with clinical or biological data.

Benefits

At Cellarity, we Push Boundaries: We create a legacy with breakthrough science in service of patients. Inject Energy: We build strengths from different perspectives and tell it like it is. Own it: We transcend our job descriptions and relentlessly follow through on our commitments. Go all out: We work quickly and with conviction.

Pay

$130,000 - $180,000

Schedule

N/A