Senior Scientist I, Translational Research

Tempus AI

Senior Scientist I at Tempus applying AI to oncology drug development. Collaborating with pharma clients on precision medicine and leveraging large clinical datasets for research.

Posted 6/27/2026full-timeRedwood City • California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $100,000 - $175,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with our pharma clients to design, develop and execute computational research projects leveraging the Tempus platform to advance precision medicine research programs
Analyze and integrate large diverse clinical and molecular datasets to extract insights and drive new research opportunities
Stay ahead of research and industry trends in oncology drug development, and identify specific areas where the Tempus platform can establish new markets
Become an expert in our biopharma partners’ strategy, pipeline and portfolio to proactively determine all areas that the Tempus platform could add value to the drug development process of our partners
Develop and drive global account strategy in coordination with the account team
Document, summarize and communicate highly technical results and methods clearly to non-technical audiences
Work directly with clients to co-architect solutions and projects that leverage the Tempus platform to solve customers' challenges and maintain R&D relationships as the trusted technical advisor
Author whitepapers and illustrate the value of multimodal analysis and AI in drug discovery in coordination with our Research, Engineering & Data Science teams
Work with Product and Engineering teams to streamline workflow of computational analyze
Contribute to the development of the portfolio by providing feedback to leadership regarding client responses and suggestions; maintain a solution-oriented mindset
Track progress against defined strategic objectives and goals; review progress/setbacks frequently wi broader Account Team and Tempus leadership
Travel approximately 25% of working time, domestically and internationally

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Biostatistics/Statistical Genetics, Cancer Genetics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computational Immunology or similar)
Minimum 4+ years in drug development leveraging genomic and multimodal data for drug discovery and development
Strong understanding of molecular data and artificial intelligence in drug discovery with experience integrative modeling of multi-modal clinical and omics data
Proficient in R, Python, and SQL
Previous experience working with large transcriptome data sets
Strong understanding of Cancer, Immunology, Clinical Trials and Real World Evidence Platforms
Prior consulting and/or client facing experience is highly desirable

Benefits

Comp & perks

incentive compensation
restricted stock units
medical and other benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

RPythonSQLbiostatisticsstatistical geneticsbioinformaticscomputational biologycomputational immunologyintegrative modelingmultimodal data analysis

Soft Skills

communicationclient facingsolution-oriented mindsetstrategic thinkingcollaborationtechnical advisingdocumentationproject managementanalytical thinkingleadership

Certifications

PhD in quantitative discipline