Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Valo Health is a human-centric, AI-enabled biotechnology company working to make new drugs for patients faster. The Staff Computational Biologist will drive the next generation of software and data products supporting Target Identification and Prioritization across the research organization, acting as a product owner and technical strategist.
Responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap for Target ID software
- Gather and prioritize scientific requirements from internal users
- Translate use cases into technical specifications for engineering teams
- Rapidly prototype computational solutions using Python
- Develop and maintain internal packages, reproducible workflows, and APIs
- Establish documentation, onboarding materials, and best practices for internal platform usage
- Lead cross-functional project execution (data engineering, software engineering)
- Follow good engineering practices (i.e. CI/CD, predictable demo cadence, etc.)
Skills
- Bachelor's/ Master's degree in relevant field (computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology, computer science) or equivalent relevant education and experience
- 6+ years industry experience in computational biology or data-driven discovery; minimum 1 years' experience in software engineering and data engineering teams
- Proficiency working with programming languages Python, and R, modern development frameworks and developing internal packages
- Experience with omics/translational data analysis, scalable ETL pipelines, data modeling, and associated QC
- 1+ years' experience leading complex projects as product owner
- Experience supporting target identification, prioritization, or multi-modal analysis
- Experience with dashboard development (e.g. Shiny, Dash, Streamlit, React, Veu.js)
- Understanding of cloud-native tools and modern data platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Familiarity with the drug discovery and development process is a plus
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Annual incentive program
- Retirement benefits
- A broad range of other benefits
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