Senior Data Scientist (Personalized Medicine)

TL;DR

Senior Data Scientist (Personalized Medicine): Develop data science methods that extract reliable signals from biomedical and optical data with an accent on modelling, signal processing, and handling noisy high-dimensional datasets. Focus on applying chemometric and multivariate methods to spectroscopic data, improving signal quality, acquisition protocols, and hardware performance.

Location: Hybrid role in Porto, Portugal with onsite training and minimum 5 days per month on-site. Greater on-site availability preferred.

Company

hirify.global is a deep-tech startup building an AI-powered platform to democratize personalized medicine for complex diseases like Alzheimer's, using proprietary optical fingerprint library of disease biomarkers.

What you will do

• Own full data science workflow for projects, from problem framing to delivery.
• Analyze proprietary biomedical datasets to identify patterns and opportunities.
• Develop statistical and machine learning methods for noisy, high-dimensional data.
• Design robust validation strategies with uncertainty checks.
• Improve preprocessing pipelines, signal quality, and acquisition protocols using raw data.
• Apply chemometric and multivariate analysis to spectroscopic data like Raman and FTIR.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with experimental, hardware, and product teams.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Contribute to reusable frameworks, best practices, publications, and patents.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related (Master’s with strong research considered).
• 3+ years post-PhD experience in quantitative data problems.
• Strong applied statistics, predictive modelling, and experimental design.
• Experience with raw data and instrumentation for signal quality optimization.
• Strong data preprocessing, feature engineering, exploratory analysis.
• Robust validation strategies for noisy data.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in chemometric or multivariate analysis of spectroscopic data (Raman, FTIR).
• Experience mentoring juniors.

Culture & Benefits

• High-paced, flexible environment with adaptable hours and strong remote culture (within hybrid constraints).
• Stimulating startup atmosphere: fast-paced, fun, energetic, friendly culture.
• Weekly happy hours, free coffee and snacks.
• Work with world-class team on high-impact healthcare projects.
• Be Kind attitude, team player mindset, honest discussions, ownership.