Senior Biostatistician: Clinical & Real‑World Evidence

Verily Health; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Verily Health is seeking a Senior Biostatistician to provide leadership in statistical design across the product lifecycle, collaborating with medical, product, engineering, data science, regulatory, and operations teams to set estimands, analysis plans, and decision criteria for diverse data sources.

Qualifications include a Master’s degree in a quantitative field and 5+ years applying statistics to clinical or life sciences research, with R/Python proficiency for complex datasets.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, data science, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, or a related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of experience applying statistical methods to clinical, biomedical, health technology, medical device, pharmaceutical, or life sciences research.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and analyzing observational studies, interventional clinical studies, and real-world data studies that support evidence generation or product decision-making.
• Experience programming in R and/or Python for analysis of complex life science, biomedical or healthcare datasets.

Responsibilities

• Leads statistical design and analysis across the entire product lifecycle, from early stage feasibility through validation and post-market activities.
• Partners with cross-functional teams to translate scientific and product questions into clear objectives, estimands, analysis plans, and decision criteria.
• Analyzes clinical, experimental, observational, real‑world, and operational datasets to generate interpretable evidence.
• Evaluates data quality, bias, missingness, generalizability, model performance, and other factors that affect study interpretation.
• Communicates study designs, assumptions, results, limitations, and recommendations to cross-functional audiences, including clinical, product, engineering, regulatory, and leadership stakeholders, through protocols, reports, presentations, dashboards, and cross-functional discussions.

Skills

Statistical methods (5+ yrs)

Observational/clinical study design

R and/or Python

Education

Master’s degree or higher in biostatistics or related field

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Verily Health is seeking a Senior Biostatistician to provide leadership in statistical design across the product lifecycle, collaborating with medical, product, engineering, data science, regulatory, and operations teams to set estimands, analysis plans, and decision criteria for diverse data sources.

Qualifications include a Master’s degree in a quantitative field and 5+ years applying statistics to clinical or life sciences research, with R/Python proficiency for complex datasets.