
Senior Scientist, Data Science – R&D
Johnson & Johnson
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • Massachusetts • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $109,000 - $174,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design, develop, and maintain our Discovery Biologics data pipelines, integrating third party solutions, and data ingestion from our external partners.
- Collaborate with data product owners, data scientists, analysts, architects, and other partners to understand data requirements and deliver high-quality solutions that enable Discovery processes for Biologics.
- Build integrations with Therapeutics Discovery systems, Discovery data repositories, data ingestion from external partners, and other adjacent sources.
- Optimize data workflows with implementations enabling ease of use, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Monitor and solve platform issues, ensuring timely resolution.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
- Experience applying ML/AI in scientific domains (drug discovery, biology, chemistry, systems biology, or related areas).
- Strong programming skills in Python (preferred) and experience with scientific/ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit‑learn, RDKit, etc.).
- Practical experience with data engineering, including data modeling, workflow orchestration, ETL/ELT pipelines, and cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Ability to work directly with experimental scientists to solve real R&D challenges.
- Preferred: Experience working in a life science environment, ideally antibody or protein engineering
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Familiarity integrating data across HPC and/or MLOps tools.
Benefits
- Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
- Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
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Hard Skills & Tools
data pipelinesdata ingestionmachine learningartificial intelligencePythonPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnRDKitdata engineering
Soft Skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillscollaboration