Data Scientist II / Senior Data Scientist (AI, Life Sciences)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Salary: $140,800–$217,800 USD annual base salary, with bonus potential and early-stage equity.

Company

hirify.global builds AI-powered scientific superintelligence systems and autonomous laboratory instruments for life sciences, chemistry, and materials science.

What you will do

• Own requirements discovery across laboratory, automation, software, and AI teams.
• Translate experimental and operational questions into well-scoped analyses.
• Develop bioinformatics and data-processing pipelines for raw assay outputs.
• Build reusable analysis modules to improve reproducibility across studies.
• Integrate analytical workflows with centralized data lake and AI platform systems.
• Identify gaps in LIMS flows, data management, and laboratory automation workflows, and document methods, assumptions, and results.

Requirements

• Strong background in biological sciences, life sciences data, or bioinformatics.
• Strong Python proficiency for scientific data analysis, including pandas, NumPy, and SciPy.
• Solid grounding in applied statistics and exploratory data analysis.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, and validating requirements with scientific and technical stakeholders.
• Experience producing reproducible, well-documented analyses and communicating with technical collaborators and bench scientists.
• Proactive, detail-oriented approach to ambiguous scientific problems.

Nice to have

• Experience with laboratory automation platforms or instrument data systems.
• Familiarity with common bioinformatics tools.
• Experience with Flyte or Temporal workflow orchestration.
• Knowledge of pydantic, pyright, or uv.
• Familiarity with AWS fundamentals and containerized workflows using Docker or Kubernetes.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional, collaborative environment spanning science, automation, software engineering, and AI.
• Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus employer-paid life and disability insurance.
• Flexible time off, generous company-wide holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Educational assistance, commuter benefits including bike-share memberships for office-based employees, and a subsidized lunch program.
• Core values include truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, with an early-stage startup environment.