Principal Scientist, Data Science: AI-Ready Data Products

Scorpion Therapeutics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Parental Leave

Sick Time

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA seeks a senior data product architect to design and evolve AI-ready scientific data products supporting drug discovery and development. You will connect discovery, preclinical, clinical, safety, and real-world evidence with scalable data products and governance.

You will partner with scientists, knowledge architects, AI engineers, and platform teams to define a future-state data ecosystem and deliver high-quality, interoperable products.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in CS, data engineering, bioinformatics or related field.
• 5+ years experience in scientific data engineering/architecture/products or life sciences informatics; enterprise-scale product delivery.
• Experience in drug discovery/development/clinical research/pharmacovigilance and building predictive models in these domains.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute data product strategy across discovery, translational science, preclinical safety, clinical development, pharmacovigilance, and real-world evidence.
• Design data integration/harmonization (SEND, SDTM, ADaM, MedDRA, imaging, omics, biomarkers, pathology, real-world data).
• Lead AWS deployment strategy; deliver scalable pipelines/products; ensure security/governance/AI-readiness alignment.
• Develop curated datasets, semantic-ready products, feature stores, metadata products, scientific data services, and AI-ready assets.
• Define metadata standards and quality frameworks; implement lineage/provenance/traceability and FAIR principles; monitor quality controls.
• Build predictive AI/ML models for translational safety decision making.

Skills

Scientific data engineering

Data product management

Cloud computing

AI/ML modeling

Knowledge graphs

Education

Master's or PhD in CS, Data Engineering, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Information Systems, Computational Biology

Tools

AWS

Data Lakes

APIs

Data Catalogs

MedDRA/SDTM/ADaM familiarity

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA seeks a senior data product architect to design and evolve AI-ready scientific data products supporting drug discovery and development. You will connect discovery, preclinical, clinical, safety, and real-world evidence with scalable data products and governance.

You will partner with scientists, knowledge architects, AI engineers, and platform teams to define a future-state data ecosystem and deliver high-quality, interoperable products.