Description
Join Cellarity, a rapidly growing biotech company, as a Senior / Principal Computational Biologist. You will play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients by applying your skills to real-world therapeutic challenges. As a computational biology lead, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to co-develop hypotheses from cell atlases and advance programs from biological model development through hit identification and lead optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Act as the CompBio lead and core team representative on cross-functional drug programs
- Develop and lead data analysis strategies and ideation across diverse projects
- Apply computational biology and machine learning tools to generate insights and hypotheses from high-dimensional molecular datasets
- Use transcriptomic data to develop disease hypotheses, evaluate models, analyze perturbation effects, and validate hits and leads
- Work with experimental scientists to ensure study designs and data deliver high-value readouts and actionable insights
- Contribute to internal AI agent development for Cellarity's scientific use cases
Requirements:
- Ph.D. or equivalent in biology, computational biology, or related scientific field
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Extensive experience in analyzing and deriving hypotheses from single-cell and bulk transcriptomic data
- Demonstrated understanding of molecular and systems biology, diverse molecular data types, and analysis tools
- Practical programming and scripting skills, preferably in Python
- Fluency with AI tools to accelerate daily scientific work
Nice to Have:
- Background in metabolic or liver diseases, autoimmune disease, or hematology
- Experience with generating, analyzing, and deriving hypotheses from other single-cell omics data types or large-scale clinical datasets
- Experience driving an impactful and relevant project within industry
- Background in statistics or machine learning
Benefits:
- Healthcare coverage
- Annual incentive program
- Retirement benefits
- Broad range of other benefits