Data Scientist

Job Title: Scientist I, Data Science

Location: Cambridge, MA,

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. 

The Target, Disease and Systems Biology (TDSB) function at Sanofi, part of Global Research, includes both in-silico and experimental scientists that are unified in their goal to accelerate science at every stage of the drug discovery pipeline in oncology, immunology, inflammation, and neurodegenerative diseases. The Data Science and Artificial Intelligence lab in the Computational Biology cluster seeks a highly motivated data scientist to join in our efforts to streamline and enhance the drug discovery process. The successful candidate will have deep expertise in machine learning and statistical analysis, as well as the drive to assimilate new techniques and develop new methodologies to strengthen our capabilities. Excellent oral/written communication skills and the ability to work independently while maintaining a strong team player attitude are essential for success in this role.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative ML/AI computational approaches and adopt existing state-of-the-art ideas to streamline transition to early development, as well as facilitate both the discovery of novel targets and drug repositioning.

• Contribute to the on-going programs with developed stack of tools/approaches and deliver customized study-specific analysis.

• Therapeutic areas of interest:

• Work closely with computational scientists and biologists in a highly collaborative environment.

• Lead in silico projects in collaboration with scientific teams and champion projects at different stages of discovery and clinical development.

• Contribute to publications, research and clinical/regulatory documentation.

About You

Essential Qualifications:

• PhD in bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology, physics or another related quantitative field with 1-3 years of experience preferred in an academic environment or the private sector (biopharma preferably).

• Develop and benchmark predictive algorithms to help generate actionable hypotheses.

• Experience with large language models or foundation models

• Proficiency in analyzing and manipulating data with Python/R.

• Ability to write clean, readable and scalable code.

• Strong interest in learning biology and liaising with scientists from multiple therapeutic areas to help define and address biological questions with computational approaches.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of basic biological concepts and ability to communicate with non-computational audience.

• Experience with knowledge graphs and graph machine learning and other AI/ML approaches

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong team player attitude.

• Experience with MLOps (snowflake, huggingface, weight and biases)

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.