TechData Service Company, LLC · 14 hours ago
Biomedical Knowledge Systems Engineer – 20 hours a Week – Remote – BB36794563
TechData Service Company, LLC is seeking a specialized Biomedical Knowledge Systems Engineer to oversee the maintenance, modernization, and enhancement of applications for their scientific knowledge discovery platform. The role requires a blend of technical proficiency in backend and frontend development, as well as expertise in biomedical data ecosystems and GenAI workflows.
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Responsibilities
Legacy System Ownership: Independently manage, maintain, and evolve our custom semantic scientific search platform, performing high-level refactoring, troubleshooting, and architectural upgrades as necessary
Administrative Stewardship: Provide comprehensive administrative, operational, and development support for legacy biomedical informatics systems, including the Gene-Disease Association Knowledgebase and FDA Label Search, requiring extensive familiarity with their unique data models and workflows
Expert Data Migration: Architect and execute complex data migrations, including document and vector database transformations from MarkLogic to MongoDB, while ensuring absolute preservation of biomedical metadata fidelity and auditability in compliance with regulatory standards
GenAI-Driven Knowledge Discovery: Design, build, and optimize scalable GenAI-based applications (leveraging frameworks such as vue.js) to expand automated scientific knowledge extraction, semantic enrichment, and cross-source information synthesis
Regulatory Analytics: Provide analytical and technical leadership on automated conversion of clinical trial results into regulatory-compliant FDA submission templates, integrating data from multiple sources
Continuous Architecture Evolution: Lead ongoing modernization strategies by advising on best-practices for system interoperability, performance tuning, and secure deployment in hybrid cloud environments
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related discipline, with a minimum of 3 years' dedicated experience in software development and highly specialized biomedical system administration
Mandatory extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with both MarkLogic and MongoDB document databases, including direct experience with complex data migration scenarios between these platforms
Demonstrated proficiency in advanced AWS services (Secrets Manager, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2) for secure, compliant application deployment and management within regulated environments
In-depth, practical experience with data curation, retrieval, and management using datasets and APIs from FDA, AACT, and clinicaltrials.gov—including expertise in regulatory data standards and integration techniques
Proven expertise with NLM biomedical data infrastructures (including PubMed, PMC, and Gene Expression Omnibus), encompassing large-scale automated ingestion, normalization, and semantic integration of publication and experimental data
Direct, production-level experience with NLP, GenAI, LLM agentic frameworks applied to real-world biomedical use-cases, demonstrating the ability to build custom pipelines for semantic search and knowledge graph construction
Highly proficient in full-stack engineering, with significant track record in modern frontend frameworks (including vue.js or equivalent), backend API design, and cloud-based microservices architecture tailored to scientific workflows
Software development: 3 years (Required)
MarkLogic: 1 year (Required)
MongoDB: 1 year (Required)
AWS: 1 year (Required)
NLM Biomedical Data Infrastructure: 1 year (Required)
Contributions to FDA regulatory information systems: 1 year (Required)
Preferred
Prior stewardship of unique and custom-built biomedical information systems with complex, multi-sourced data pipelines
Documented contributions to FDA regulatory information systems and prior collaborative work with scientific publication analytics
NLP: 1 year (Preferred)
GenAI: 1 year (Preferred)
Benefits
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Company
TechData Service Company, LLC
TechData Service Company, LLC (TechData) is a well-known provider of talented IT and data science professionals.
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