Principal Data Scientist: AI-Ready Discovery Platforms

Scorpion Therapeutics; Raritan (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation

Sick time

Holiday pay

Parental leave

Bereavement leave

Volunteer leave

Military spouse time-off

Caregiver leave

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in New Jersey is seeking a senior data product architect to drive design and evolution of scientific data products for AI-enabled drug discovery and development.

You will build scalable data assets connecting discovery, preclinical, clinical, safety, and real-world evidence, and set metadata standards, lineage, and FAIR practices to support translational science and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in CS, Data Engineering, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Information Systems, Computational Biology, or related.
• 5+ years in scientific data engineering/architecture/products/life sciences informatics.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale scientific data products; supporting drug discovery/development/clinical research/pharmacovigilance.
• Experience developing predictive models in relevant areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of scientific data products and integration strategies supporting AI-enabled drug discovery and development.
• Create scalable, interoperable, AI-ready data products connecting discovery, preclinical, clinical, safety, and real-world evidence; enable validated-biomarker data assets.
• Establish data architecture, integration strategy, metadata framework, and productization approach for semantic reasoning, knowledge graphs, GraphRAG, advanced analytics, and agentic AI.
• Define the future-state scientific data ecosystem with stakeholders and ensure high-quality products for translational science and patient safety.

Skills

5+ years scientific data engineering

Enterprise-scale data products

Life sciences informatics

Predictive models development

Education

Master’s or PhD in CS / Data Engineering / Bioinformatics

Tools

AWS-based platforms

Data lakes / lakehouses

SEND

SDTM

ADaM

MedDRA

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics in New Jersey is seeking a senior data product architect to drive design and evolution of scientific data products for AI-enabled drug discovery and development.

You will build scalable data assets connecting discovery, preclinical, clinical, safety, and real-world evidence, and set metadata standards, lineage, and FAIR practices to support translational science and patient safety.