Senior Scientist, Computational Biology & AI for Medicine

Tempus AI; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus AI is seeking a Senior Scientist to join the Computational Biology, Pharma R&D team. This role combines biological data science with AI to support collaborations with major pharmaceutical partners and to drive drug discovery using large-scale molecular and clinical datasets.

The successful candidate will lead project work, integrate diverse data modalities, and build research tools enabling faster, more accurate clinical development decisions.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computational Biology or related field, or Masters with 4+ years industry experience.
• Strong background in genomics, bioinformatics, and AI-enabled analysis.
• Proficiency in Python or R and standard scientific libraries.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with pharma partners to translate scientific goals into analytical plans.
• Integrate genomic, transcriptomic, imaging, and clinical data to derive insights.
• Develop and prototype AI/LLM-enabled workflows to accelerate research.
• Contribute to reusable code, internal packages, and best practices.
• Lead cross-functional teams and mentor junior scientists.
• Communicate methods and results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Python

R

ML

Statistics

Education

PhD in Computational Biology

Masters with 4+ years experience

Tools

Copilot

Cursor

Agentic frameworks

Job description

Tempus AI is seeking a Senior Scientist to join the Computational Biology, Pharma R&D team. This role combines biological data science with AI to support collaborations with major pharmaceutical partners and to drive drug discovery using large-scale molecular and clinical datasets.

The successful candidate will lead project work, integrate diverse data modalities, and build research tools enabling faster, more accurate clinical development decisions.