Senior Epidemiology Modeler & System Design Lead

SecureBio, LLC; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work hours

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Catered lunches

Job summary

SecureBio, a nonprofit focused on pandemic defense, seeks a quantitative researcher or epidemiologist to bridge infection dynamics with sequencing data. You will quantify how reliably surveillance detects emerging pathogens and where to invest to improve it, guiding scientific priorities and funding proposals.

You will build models that estimate sampling strategies, site selection, and sequencing depth, working with laboratory scientists, leadership, and external collaborators.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, applied mathematics, statistics, or related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Deep experience with quantitative epidemiology or infectious disease modeling.
• Proficiency in Python or R with good coding practices.
• Ability to independently own substantive quantitative projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and update estimates of how early and reliably the system could detect emerging pathogens across outbreak scenarios.
• Use metagenomic data to estimate key parameters for models.
• Develop quick in-house models and act as expert user of collaborators' models.
• Model tradeoffs across sampling strategies, sites, and sequencing depth.
• Share results early and clearly with the team and leadership.
• Collaborate with external modeling partners to steer joint work toward practical answers.
• Turn around fast, honest analyses for leadership and proposals, framed for funders.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and decision-making.

Skills

5+ years experience

Quantitative modeling

Communication with stakeholders

Independent project ownership

Python or R

Education

Graduate degree in epidemiology/biostatistics/applied math

Tools

Python

R

Job description

SecureBio, a nonprofit focused on pandemic defense, seeks a quantitative researcher or epidemiologist to bridge infection dynamics with sequencing data. You will quantify how reliably surveillance detects emerging pathogens and where to invest to improve it, guiding scientific priorities and funding proposals.

You will build models that estimate sampling strategies, site selection, and sequencing depth, working with laboratory scientists, leadership, and external collaborators.