Senior Principal Data Scientist, Agentic AI

Location: Waltham, MA, United States. US and Puerto Rico residents only.

Salary: $148,500–$214,500 annually.

Company

hirify.global is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company developing medicines and vaccines to improve people’s lives.

What you will do

• Define and execute the Vaccines R&D agentic AI strategy across bioinformatics, nucleic acid design, protein AI models, and viral strain surveillance.
• Develop and deploy AI/ML methods, autonomous AI agents, multi-step reasoning systems, and large language model workflows for computational design.
• Collaborate with R&D, Digital, CMC, and Clinical functions to integrate actionable computational design outputs into downstream development.
• Establish best practices for code generation, software engineering, data governance, model validation, and reproducibility.
• Build scalable AI-assisted workflows for scientific computing, data analysis, and application development across Research, CMC, Translational, and Clinical contexts.
• Develop an agentic AI expert community and mentor scientists in adopting AI-assisted R&D workflows.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Structural Biology, Computer Science, or a closely related quantitative discipline plus 5+ years of experience in drug development, molecular design, computational biology, or a related quantitative field within pharmaceutical, biotech, or technology environments; or a PhD in one of these disciplines plus 3+ years of relevant experience.
• 3+ years of demonstrated scientific contribution or R&D work.
• Deep expertise in at least two of bioinformatics and genomics, nucleic acid sequence design, or protein structure prediction and design.
• Experience developing, productionizing, and deploying AI and machine learning models for molecular property prediction.
• Experience with autonomous AI systems, large language models, or AI agents applied to scientific research or drug discovery workflows.
• Fluency in scientific computing with Python and R, plus familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Fluent English required.
• Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, cross-functional collaboration, communication, presentation, and scientific writing skills, including communication with non-technical executives.

Nice to have

• French language skills.
• Postdoctoral training.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, future-focused environment centered on AI-driven research, mRNA platforms, immunology, and large-scale vaccination efforts.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, including healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
• Career development through mentoring, promotions, lateral moves, and international mobility programs across four continents.
• Employment with hirify.global Inc. or its U.S. affiliates as an Equal Opportunity employer.