Senior Life Sciences Data Engineer - AI-Ready Pipelines

Motion Recruitment; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

Life Insurance

Disability Coverage

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Senior Life Sciences Data Engineer to build scalable data infrastructure powering pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovation. You will transform complex research data into AI-ready assets and collaborate with scientists and product teams.

The role combines data engineering, scientific computing, and life sciences, with opportunities to lead initiatives and mentor engineers on cutting-edge AI data solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building data platforms, pipelines, or data products.
• 8+ years of Python and SQL development.
• Strong experience designing scalable ETL/ELT processes and data models.
• Experience leading technical projects and coordinating work across cross-functional teams.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
• Expertise building production-grade data pipelines with strong testing and quality standards.
• Experience handling complex, unstructured, or semi-structured datasets.
• Excellent communication and project leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with scientists, business stakeholders, architects, and product teams to design scalable scientific data solutions.
• Build and maintain data pipelines for research, laboratory, manufacturing, and clinical data sources.
• Design data models, schemas, and ingestion frameworks for complex scientific datasets.
• Develop reusable parsing, transformation, and integration components in Python.
• Build AI-ready datasets and high-quality data products for downstream analytics and machine learning use cases.
• Create dashboards, visualizations, and applications that help customers derive value from their scientific data.
• Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews.
• Ensure quality through automated testing, validation frameworks, and best engineering practices.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth and development.
• Drive successful delivery of customer-facing data initiatives.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT design

Data modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Communication

Life sciences data

Tools

React

Streamlit

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Senior Life Sciences Data Engineer to build scalable data infrastructure powering pharmaceutical and biotechnology innovation. You will transform complex research data into AI-ready assets and collaborate with scientists and product teams.

The role combines data engineering, scientific computing, and life sciences, with opportunities to lead initiatives and mentor engineers on cutting-edge AI data solutions.