Senior Scientist, Omics – R&D Data Science, Digital Health – Neuroscience
Johnson & Johnson
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Diego • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $109,000 - $174,800 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Implement innovative data science projects to uncover novel therapeutic targets, optimize patient stratification, and identify precision biomarkers by deriving insights from multi-omics data linked to brain biology and neuropsychiatric/neurodegenerative disease mechanisms
- Work in multi-disciplinary teams, composed of discovery scientists, clinicians, computational biologists and biomarker experts to support the precision neuroscience strategy for programs in the Neuropsychiatry/Neurodegeneration portfolio
- Remain current on the constantly evolving landscape of neuroscience, neurodegeneration, and neuropsychiatry, omics, bioinformatics and AI/ML research in search of better approaches for accelerating and prioritizing our portfolio based on biological insights.
- Build strong relationships with internal partners and key academic collaborators, and consortia to position the company at the forefront of data-driven neuroscience.
Requirements
- PhD in neuroscience, computational biology, bioengineering, biostatistics, or a related field is required.
- Experience working hands-on deriving insights from high-dimensional molecular data – particularly genetic (GWAS, WGS), RNAseq, proteomics and/or single-cell data is required.
- Proficiency in R, Python, or similar programming languages is required.
- Experience translating data into executable action plans is required.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical work to a diverse audience is required.
- Proven track record of scientific contributions in this field with first author publications in high-impact journals is strongly preferred.
- Background and experience working in Neuropsychiatry/Neurodegeneration is preferred.
- Experience in applying data-driven methods in the context of target discovery and validation, translational science and/or patient stratification is preferred.
- Familiarity with machine learning and innovative AI methodologies is preferred.
- Up to approximately 10% yearly travel is required (International, Domestic)
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability
- business accident insurance, and group legal insurance
- Company sponsored employee benefit programs
- consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k))
- Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemulti-omics dataGWASWGSRNAseqproteomicssingle-cell dataRPythonmachine learning
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationrelationship buildingteamworkaction planning
Certifications
PhD in neurosciencePhD in computational biologyPhD in bioengineeringPhD in biostatistics