Impactful Microbiome Data Scientist — Early-Life Health

Tiny Health; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Career growth opportunities

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Tiny Health, a microbiome-focused health company, seeks a data scientist to drive data-driven research and biomarker development. You’ll collaborate with microbiome experts, analyze complex datasets, and contribute to scientific publications and product development.

Reporting to the Head of Science, you will prepare analyses, visualizations, and protocols while working across multiple projects in a fast-paced, remote-first team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time, relevant experience after a Master’s.
• 0-1+ years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Strong background in statistics, machine learning, and data visualization.
• Experience with microbiome data analysis (e.g., 16S, shotgun metagenomics) is highly desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, organized, and able to work independently in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze microbiome data (taxa abundances, diversity metrics, functional genes) to support research questions.
• Develop and maintain novel microbiome metrics and biomarkers using statistical and ML methods.
• Conduct statistical analyses of longitudinal clinical data.
• Prepare visualizations, reports, and presentations for stakeholders and publications.
• Draft research protocols, statistical analysis plans, and clinical study reports.
• Work independently across multiple projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Support development of new product and study concepts.
• Contribute to scientific publications and proposals.

Skills

Statistics

Machine learning

Data visualization

R

Python

SQL

Metagenomics analysis

Education

Master’s or PhD in data science / computational biology / bioinformatics

Tools

R

Python

SQL

Metagenomics workflows

Job description

Tiny Health, a microbiome-focused health company, seeks a data scientist to drive data-driven research and biomarker development. You’ll collaborate with microbiome experts, analyze complex datasets, and contribute to scientific publications and product development.

Reporting to the Head of Science, you will prepare analyses, visualizations, and protocols while working across multiple projects in a fast-paced, remote-first team.