Associate Director, Computational Biology – Early Discovery (Oncology)

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States; hybrid office-based position with at least 50% of working time in the office

Annual base salary: $200,000–$220,500, plus annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a clinical-stage TechBio company using an AI-native drug discovery and development platform to integrate biology, chemistry, and clinical development.

What you will do

• Lead early discovery efforts to identify and validate oncology and immunological disease targets.
• Integrate phenomics, transcriptomics, genomics, and proteomics data to nominate novel targets and define precision oncology strategies.
• Manage and mentor a team of data scientists and computational biologists while contributing directly to technical work.
• Pilot computational methods for target discovery, disease biology validation, and early patient population hypotheses.
• Define target data package criteria and connect analysis methods with platform and engineering teams.
• Collaborate with biologists, medicinal chemists, translational experts, and clinical leads to build data packages and present analyses to decision-makers.

Requirements

• PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, cancer biology, immuno-oncology, or a related field with a strong computational focus and 3+ years of biotech or pharma industry experience; or an MS with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience solving fundamental problems in early drug discovery.
• Domain expertise in oncology or immunological diseases, including patient genetics and druggability of disease-relevant pathways.
• Experience applying probabilistic, statistical, or machine learning methods to complex biological or clinical data using Python or R.
• Track record of managing and developing scientific or technical direct reports.
• Strong data visualization and cross-functional scientific communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building a target discovery engine in oncology or immunological diseases.
• Experience designing high-throughput CRISPR or small-molecule perturbation screens.
• Exposure to translational or clinical development programs and target validation model selection.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model with regular office presence at the Salt Lake City headquarters.
• Annual bonus and equity compensation.
• Comprehensive employee benefits package.
• Culture emphasizing scientific rigor, experimentation, continuous learning, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Equal opportunity employment and accommodations available during the selection process.