Senior Specialist, Scientific Software Engineer, Digital Insights, DSCS Digital Technologies (Hybrid)

Location: Hybrid role available in Rahway, New Jersey; Boston, Massachusetts; Cambridge, Massachusetts; or West Point, Pennsylvania, United States.

Salary: $117,000–$184,200 base salary annually for the primary location; annual bonus and long-term incentive may also apply.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and supports drug substance, drug product, analytical development, clinical supply, and related scientific operations through digital technologies.

What you will do

• Build, scale, and sustain scientific and laboratory automation solutions from prototypes into secure, maintainable, enterprise-grade production software.
• Design reusable platforms, backend services, and APIs that unify analytical instrument and laboratory data and consolidate legacy tools.
• Develop and operate production data pipelines, data models, and reusable data products for reliable, analytics-ready data.
• Own solution architecture, development, integration testing, documentation, deployment, user acceptance, and production support.
• Partner with scientists, data scientists, IT, infrastructure, security, data governance, vendors, and other stakeholders to translate scientific needs into durable software.
• Establish engineering practices including version control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, onboarding, training, and production rollout.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a closely related field; or an M.S. in one of these fields plus at least 2 years of industrial, pharmaceutical, or relevant experience; or a B.S. plus at least 4 years of such experience.
• Deep hands-on software development experience building production-grade applications, backend services, and APIs using Python and/or equivalent languages.
• Experience scaling and hardening software from prototype to production, architecting reusable platforms, and modernizing or consolidating fragmented or legacy tools.
• Experience partnering with IT, infrastructure, security, and/or data governance teams to deploy and sustain software within enterprise standards.
• Strong data engineering experience designing, building, and operating production ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and data products using databases, data warehouses, or data lakes.
• Experience integrating software with scientific instruments, laboratory systems, or external platforms through APIs, SDKs, or file-based interfaces.
• Experience with version control, automated testing, code review, and CI/CD.
• Ability to translate complex scientific requirements into maintainable software and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting pharmaceutical development, including drug substance, drug product, or analytical development.
• Experience integrating analytical instrument software, chromatography data systems, laboratory informatics ecosystems, ELN/LIMS platforms, or Signals.
• Experience with high-throughput screening, experimentation workflows, scientific data standards, FAIR data principles, standardized formats, and long-term archival.
• Experience delivering scientific or laboratory data products and using data engineering tooling or orchestration frameworks.
• Experience developing user-facing web applications for scientific data and workflows.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization, data governance, data lineage, and validation frameworks in regulated GxP environments.
• Prior cross-functional software deployments, user training, and production support experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with approximately 10% travel.
• Regular employee status with medical, dental, vision, insurance, retirement benefits including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
• Inclusive, multidisciplinary, team-oriented environment focused on trusted partnerships, technical innovation, and collective problem-solving.
• Visa sponsorship is available.
• Domestic and international relocation is listed as available.