Principal Scientist, Data Science (Data Products, Integration & Analysis)

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

Position Summary

• 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute a scientific data product strategy for discovery research, translational science, preclinical safety, clinical development, pharmacovigilance, and real-world evidence.


• Design integration frameworks and data harmonization across SEND, SDTM, ADaM, MedDRA, imaging, omics, biomarker, pathology, and real-world data.


• Lead AWS-based digital platform implementation strategy; partner to deliver pipelines/data products.


• Develop curated datasets, semantic-ready data products, feature stores, metadata products, scientific data services, and AI-ready data assets.


• Define metadata standards and data quality; implement lineage/provenance/traceability and FAIR; establish monitoring controls.


• Build predictive AIML models for translational safety decision making.

Required 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.

Technical Expertise

• Data architecture/modeling, data product design, cloud-native platforms, metadata management, data governance, predictive model development.


• AWS-based platforms; data lakes/lakehouses; distributed processing; APIs/data services; data cataloging/lineage.


• Familiarity with SEND, SDTM, ADaM, MedDRA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge graphs/semantic architectures/GraphRAG; AI-ready data products & feature stores; ontology-driven integration; partnering with cloud/platform teams; regulated environments.


• Familiarity with FHIR, OMOP, DICOM; biomarker/omics standards.

Benefits (explicitly listed)

• Vacation: 120 hours/year; Sick time: 40 hours/year (CO: 48; WA: 56); Holiday pay (incl. Floating Holidays): 13 days/year; Work/Personal/Family Time: up to 40 hours/year; Parental Leave: 480 hours; Bereavement: 240 hours (immediate) / 40 hours (extended); Caregiver Leave: 80 hours (52-week rolling period); Volunteer Leave: 32 hours/year; Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours/year.