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Data Scientist
| Company | Sanofi |
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| Location | Cambridge, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $84000 – $140000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | PhD |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- PhD in bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology, physics or another related quantitative field with 1-3 years of experience preferred in an academic environment or the private sector (biopharma preferably)
- Develop and benchmark predictive algorithms to help generate actionable hypotheses
- Experience with large language models or foundation models
- Proficiency in analyzing and manipulating data with Python/R
- Ability to write clean, readable and scalable code
- Strong interest in learning biology and liaising with scientists from multiple therapeutic areas to help define and address biological questions with computational approaches
Responsibilities
- Develop innovative ML/AI computational approaches and adopt existing state-of-the-art ideas to streamline transition to early development, as well as facilitate both the discovery of novel targets and drug repositioning
- Contribute to the on-going programs with developed stack of tools/approaches and deliver customized study-specific analysis
- Work closely with computational scientists and biologists in a highly collaborative environment
- Lead in silico projects in collaboration with scientific teams and champion projects at different stages of discovery and clinical development
- Contribute to publications, research and clinical/regulatory documentation
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of basic biological concepts and ability to communicate with non-computational audience
- Experience with knowledge graphs and graph machine learning and other AI/ML approaches
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and strong team player attitude
- Experience with MLOps (snowflake, huggingface, weight and biases)
