Informatics and AI Engineer (Biotherapeutics)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; hybrid role requiring residence within commuting distance and on-site work an average of 2.5 days per week or more as needed

Annual base salary: $106,000–$176,600. Eligible for a 15% bonus target and share-based long-term incentive program.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and biotherapeutics intended to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.

What you will do

• Develop and scale a modern data platform for efficient, scalable correlation and analysis of biologic drug modality data.
• Build data products, machine learning methods, and analysis pipelines using agentic AI.
• Curate and integrate public-domain datasets and deploy data products through data integration.
• Implement, test, and validate data analysis and visualization methods.
• Improve biologics data capture, metadata tagging, governance, validation, and storage strategies with the Digital organization.
• Collaborate with external companies and academic institutions; support workshops, hackathons, training, scientific talks, publications, and conference presentations.

Requirements

• PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, statistics, or a related technical discipline, or a master’s degree plus 2+ years of experience building AI-powered research applications.
• Strong background in data handling, integration, and analysis, with experience developing data products and data integration solutions.
• Thorough understanding of drug discovery and biology, particularly large-molecule therapeutics such as peptides and antibodies.
• Experience solving complex analyses and problems in a timely manner and innovating at the intersection of data science, agentic AI, and life sciences.
• Experience with LLMs, agentic AI, and MCP/RAG systems.
• Exceptional Python programming skills.
• Experience with data governance rules and data validation.
• Strong full-stack development experience focused on Python and SQL, including in-depth database expertise, ETL frameworks, and data warehouse technologies.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation communication skills, including communication with scientists from diverse areas of expertise.
• Permanent work authorization in the United States is required.

Nice to have

• Front-end technologies and browser-based visualization techniques.
• Software engineering, package development, cloud architectures, CI/CD, and software engineering tooling.
• Nextflow pipeline development.
• Linux systems, containerization technologies, and HPC environments.
• Python scientific-stack libraries and experience handling, processing, integrating, and analyzing large heterogeneous datasets in a drug discovery research environment.
• Claude Code or equivalent, agentic coding paradigms, and experience taking prototypes to production.
• Ability to communicate complex technical work through publications, presentations, or detailed documentation.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration with hirify.global’s Data Ecosystem, Machine Learning, Digital, and scientific organizations.
• Comprehensive benefits including a 401(k) with matching contributions, retirement savings contributions, health coverage, paid vacation, holidays, and personal days.
• Paid caregiver, parental, and medical leave.
• Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and eligibility.
• Employment conditions and benefits are aligned with the location of hire.