Career Category
Research
Job Description
Senior Data Scientist - Protein Data Pipelines
Role Summary
The Senior Data Scientist - Protein Data Pipelines will play a critical role in enabling predictive modeling for protein sequence, structure, and function by building scalable, reliable, and reproducible data pipelines. This role will focus on transforming protein property data and related scientific outputs into ML-amenable assets that support model training, inference, deployment, and ongoing use across research programs.
Working at the intersection of data engineering, MLOps, computational biology, and applied machine learning, this individual will partner with ML developers, wet-lab scientists, domain experts, and distributed technical teams to translate scientific and engineering needs into robust data and inference solutions. The successful candidate will develop reusable frameworks for data engineering, model inference, deployment, validation, testing, and monitoring across in-house and external machine learning models.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building production-ready scientific data systems, collaborating across disciplines, and converting complex domain needs into maintainable technical solutions that scale across discovery pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
Scalable Data Pipelines for model training
- Design and maintain scalable data pipelines that support predictive model training, with emphasis on protein sequence or structure-to-function applications.
- Build ML-model amenable data assets for protein property data that are readable, quality-controlled, reproducible, and suitable for reuse across programs.
- Translate scientific and engineering needs into reliable data solutions that support ongoing research and model-development workflows.
Model Deployment & Inference Pipelines
- Develop deployment strategies and pipelines to embed trained models into ongoing projects.
- Develop reusable inference, deployment, and testing frameworks for in-house and external machine learning models.
- Convert model-development outputs into maintainable technical solutions that can be used reliably by research teams.
Data Quality, Validation & Reproducibility
- Establish data quality, validation, monitoring, and reproducibility practices for protein property and related scientific datasets.
- Implement validation and monitoring approaches that improve confidence in downstream model training, inference, and deployment.
- Document data lineage, assumptions, validation outcomes, and reproducibility practices to support long-term reuse.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Technical Coordination
- Serve as a liaison between machine-learning developers and domain experts, including wet-lab collaborators where applicable.
- Own and mediate collaborations between ML developers and wet-lab teams to ensure that data, modeling, and experimental needs are aligned.
- Coordinate technical work across distributed teams and help align implementation plans, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
Documentation & Knowledge Sharing
- Document systems, pipeline behavior, operational expectations, and technical decisions to support adoption and maintenance.
- Support knowledge sharing across research, ML, and engineering teams through clear documentation, examples, and reusable implementation patterns.
- Scale data and modeling infrastructure practices across research programs and pipelines.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, Computational Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field and relevant professional experience.
Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of relevant experience, OR
- Master’s degree and 4+ years of relevant experience, OR
- PhD
Preferred Qualifications
Scalable Data Engineering
- Strong experience building scalable data pipelines in Python and/or SQL.
- Experience designing readable, reusable, and maintainable data-processing workflows for scientific or machine-learning applications.
- Experience with data pipeline automation, preferably using Databricks.
MLOps, Inference & Deployment
- Hands-on experience owning reusable, end-to-end MLOps for at least one machine learning model.
- Experience with MLflow is preferred; experience with other model-lifecycle, deployment, or tracking frameworks is also welcome.
- Experience developing deployment, inference, validation, or testing workflows that support production-like use of machine learning models.
Data Quality, Monitoring & Reproducibility
- Knowledge of data quality control, validation, and monitoring practices.
- Experience applying reproducibility practices to scientific data, model-training datasets, or inference workflows.
- Ability to identify data quality risks and develop practical controls for downstream model use.
Scientific Domain Experience
- Familiarity with computational biology, computational chemistry, computational materials science, or related fields.
- Experience working with protein sequence, protein structure, protein property, or related scientific datasets is beneficial.
- Preferred experience collaborating with wet-lab teams and translating experimental needs into data or modeling workflows.
Communication & Collaboration
- Ability to communicate effectively with machine-learning developers, software and data engineers, domain experts, and research scientists.
- Experience coordinating technical work across distributed or cross-functional teams.
- Strong documentation habits and commitment to knowledge sharing, maintainability, and long-term adoption.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be demonstrated through:
- Delivery of readable, quality-controlled, and reproducible data pipelines for protein property data.
- Successful embedding of trained models into ongoing projects through reliable deployment and inference pipelines.
- Increased reuse of data-engineering, inference, deployment, validation, and testing frameworks across research programs.
- Improved confidence in model-training and inference data through practical quality, monitoring, and reproducibility practices.
- Effective collaboration between ML developers, wet-lab teams, domain experts, and distributed technical partners.
- Expansion of scalable data and modeling infrastructure across research programs and pipelines.
Typical Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate combines strong data-engineering and MLOps expertise with enough scientific domain fluency to work effectively with ML developers, and experimental collaborators. They enjoy building reusable systems that make complex scientific data reliable, reproducible, and actionable for predictive modeling.
Candidates may come from data science, data engineering, machine learning infrastructure, computational biology, computational chemistry, computational materials science, bioinformatics, or research informatics backgrounds. They are motivated by bridging scientific and engineering needs, supporting production-ready model use, and scaling technical solutions across discovery programs.
Organizational Impact
This role will build ML-amenable data pipelines for protein property data, mediate collaborations between ML developers and wet-lab teams, and scale data and modeling infrastructure across research programs and pipelines. By converting complex domain needs into maintainable, production-ready technical solutions, the Senior Data Scientist - Protein Data Pipelines will help accelerate reliable model development, deployment, and adoption across Large Molecule Discovery.
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