Sr. Data Scientist Translational Research

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time actionable insights to physicians providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients at the right time.

With the advent of genomic sequencing we can finally decode and process our genetic makeup; however computer technology has had a limited impact in healthcare. With the expansion of multi-modal healthcare data and recent advancements in AI that’s about to fundamentally change. Tempus is a healthcare technology company at the forefront of that change leveraging data and technology to improve patient lives.

Lens Tempus' proprietary data and platform connect an entire ecosystem of real-world data to deliver real-time actionable insights to researchers. Our data empowers researchers to better characterize and understand disease and to drive better outcomes through precise individualized care.

The Scientific and Technical Solutions team is seeking a driven intellectually curious member to bridge the gap between our cutting-edge analytical platform and the complex research questions of our clients. This role is central to client success and adoption of the Tempus Data and the Lens Platform. You will serve as the primary technical and scientific resource ensuring our clients can seamlessly integrate their research with our data and platform to derive meaningful scientific answers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Onboarding & Education: Lead the technical and scientific onboarding process for new clients ensuring a smooth transition into the Tempus Data Ecosystem and our analytical platform  Lens.

• Scientific Problem Solving: Engage with clients (primarily researchers and scientists) to deeply understand their specific scientific hypotheses and questions (e.g. biomarker discovery target identification clinical trial design).

• Platform Guidance & Solutioning: Translate the client's scientific needs into actionable steps on the Tempus analytical platform. This includes designing workflows structuring queries and guiding the analysis of complex datasets (genomic clinical imaging).  

• AI-Assisted Optimization: Leverage LLMs and co-pilot tools to accelerate internal development and create specialized agents that help clients navigate and derive insights from large-scale biomedical data and make the client experience on the platform as easy efficient and intuitive as possible.

• Feedback Loop: Act as the voice of the client collaborating closely with Tempus Product Engineering and Data Science teams to prioritize features and resolve technical challenges.

• Documentation & Training: Create high-quality technical documentation tutorials and training materials for clients on platform features and best practices for scientific analysis.

Qualifications:

Required Skills & Experience

• A Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant scientific field (e.g. Computational Biology Bioinformatics Genomics Data Science or a related life science discipline).

• Demonstrated experience working with and analyzing large-scale biomedical datasets (e.g. Next-Generation Sequencing data clinical trial data real-world data). 

• Experience working with statistical modeling data mining and/or machine learning methods.

• Hands-on experience with analytical tools and languages relevant to biomedical research. Must be fluent in Python or R. If Python is the primary language  having some R coding experience is required. Being comfortable in both languages is an added bonus.

• Experience with software development and the AWS or GCP technical stack

• Experience with engineering practices for research computing (Docker Git Github Linux cloud computing).

• Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot in VS Code) to optimize coding efficiency and troubleshooting.

• Experience building specialized AI agents or designing workflows that utilize LLMs to solve complex technical problems.

• Experience putting data science workflows into production.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and thrive in a fast-paced environment willing to shift priorities seamlessly.

• Demonstrated "power-user" proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot in VS Code) to optimize coding efficiency and troubleshooting.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex technical and scientific concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• A strong track record of identifying inefficiencies or scientific roadblocks and developing pragmatic user-friendly solutions.

Preferred (Bonus) Qualifications:

• Experience in the biotech pharma or healthcare technology space.

• Direct experience with oncology research.

• Experience with: Pandas NumPy SciPy Scikit-learn Jupyter Notebooks RStudio R Package development  tidyverse ggplot Git matplotlib seaborn HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript D3 Plot.ly Flask Dask

$100000-175000

The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from California and may vary for other locations (Colorado Illinois New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits which may include incentive compensation restricted stock units medical and other benefits depending on the position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. 

What We Do

We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time connect patients with therapies and clinical trials and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments. With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology neurology psychiatry cardiology and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed. At Tempus every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before. For more information visit tempus.com.

Why Work With Us

We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.

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