Valo Health · 8 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$153K/yr - $180K/yr
1+ years expValo Health is a human-centric, AI-enabled biotechnology company focused on accelerating drug discovery and development. They are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Data Scientist to develop and evaluate computational chemistry models and platform data science tooling to support their drug discovery mission.
BiotechnologyHealth CareInformation TechnologyMedical
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Develop solutions for advancing real-world preclinical discovery programs, tackling problems such as ADME modeling, toxicity prediction, and generative chemistry
Develop and deploy data science tools and workflows to accelerate hit identification, hit-to-lead, and lead optimization efforts
Design and develop model dashboards to facilitate model performance tracking, discoverability, and provenance
Implement data science best practices in areas such as rigorous statistical validation, data curation and preparation, model life-cycle management
Qualification
Required
A PhD in Computational Chemistry, Computer Science, Data Science or related technical field, with 1-2 years of experience building tools and developing models with demonstrated business impact
Extensive experience with data science languages and frameworks, such as R and pandas; engineering best practices, such as git and CI/CD pipelines; DevOps tooling like Docker, and Kubernetes; orchestration tooling and ETL pipelines such as Prefect or Airflow
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, including experience with Rmarkdown and/or Jupyter Notebooks for communicating results; and the ability to also condense, summarize, and synthesize those results into informative and actionable presentations to less technical audiences
Experience with building machine learning models, tools, and workflows for drug discovery
Permanent U.S. work authorization without the need for immediate or future sponsorship
Benefits
Healthcare coverage
Annual incentive program
Retirement benefits
Broad range of other benefits
Company
Valo Health
Valo Health is a technology company focused on utilizing large scale data and AI-driven computation to discover and develop therapeutics.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$460MKey Investors
Koch Disruptive TechnologiesPSP InvestmentsFlagship Pioneering
2022-10-28Series C
2021-03-09Series B· $110M
2021-01-11Series B· $190M
Leadership Team
Brian Alexander
Chief Executive Officer
Guido Lanza
SVP and CTO
Recent News
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