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Nilo Therapeutics · 1 month ago

(Sr) Research Associate / Data Engineer, Data Science

New York City, New York

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$89K/yr - $115K/yr

0+ years exp

Nilo Therapeutics is an early-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. They are seeking a detail-oriented Research Associate / Data Engineer to support data management, analysis, and integration across their discovery platform, ensuring smooth and high-quality data flow and contributing to experimental decision-making.

BiotechnologyHealth CareTherapeuticsWellness

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Work across a wide range of scientific datasets—multi-assay screens, sequencing-derived tables, imaging outputs, and vendor-specific instrument exports—organizing, standardizing, and automating data flows so they can be reliably used by downstream teams

Build and maintain data pipelines, APIs, and internal tools that streamline ingestion, QC, annotation, and storage of experimental data, ensuring data integrity throughout

Collaborate with scientists, project teams, and external CROs to clarify experimental context, define data templates, and manage data entry efforts — ensuring that data structures align with biological intent and that formatting and schema issues are resolved for consistent data quality

Manage cloud-based data storage and database organization, helping maintain clear versioning, documentation, and discoverability

Use Python to clean, validate, and explore new datasets, generating basic analyses or sanity checks that help guide downstream decisions

Design, build, and maintain custom web-applications to perform automated analysis and/or report and visualize results

Present findings in internal meetings, project teams, and external meetings as appropriate

Qualification

PythonData managementCloud computingAPI developmentBioinformatics toolsProblem-solvingCommunicationCollaboration

Required

B.S. or M.S. in bioinformatics, data science, data engineering, or a related discipline with 0-2 years of post-graduate experience

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, particularly in data management

Experience working with structured data (Excel, CSV, JSON, YAML, relational databases) as well as semi-structured and unstructured data (text, network graphs)

Excellent analytical and programming skills, with expertise in Python and familiarity with related tools (e.g., R, Bash/CLI, Docker)

Familiarity with API development frameworks (e.g., REST)

Experience with cloud computing platforms and services — especially instances, storage, and databases

Experience with a broad range of bioinformatic tools and methods, including sequencing QC and analysis workflows (and their associated datatypes such as FASTQ), as well as familiarity with workflow orchestration concepts for building reproducible pipelines

Interest or experience in developing simple web applications

Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Benefits

Competitive compensation package

Benefits designed to support the well-being and professional growth of our team members

Company

Nilo Therapeutics

NILO Therapeutics is a biotechnology and therapeutics company.

Founded in 2024

New York, New York, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.nilotx.com

H1B Sponsorship

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