Data Scientist

With over 35 nationalities and a range of backgrounds represented in our Benevolent team, we aim to build an inclusive environment where our people can bring their authentic selves to work, be respected for who they are and the exceptional work they do. We welcome and actively encourage applications from all sections of society and are committed to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, disability, age, citizenship, or any other basis. We see our diversity as an asset as we tackle challenging problems that bridge the gap between drug discovery and technology.

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The Role

At Benevolent AI, we redesign drug discovery from engineering-first principles. Grounded in data, AI and the life sciences, we build products that enable us and our partners to discover drugs in a faster and more reliable way, to better serve patients with high unmet medical need. The Data Scientist is at the heart of our operations, transforming our data into valuable tools for drug discovery. As a Data Scientist, you will play a critical role in defining and measuring our scientific impact on the drug discovery process.

You will apply your skills to rigorously understand and evaluate the quality of our data and algorithms, often using visualization. You will work in cross-functional teams, at the interface between our internal users investigating the biology of diseases, and our engineering and AI teams building technology.

You will contribute to developing powerful products for discovering therapies for some of the thousands of diseases that have no treatment today. We are excited for you to come meet the challenge!

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Primary Responsibilities

Write data pipelines in python and SQL to get from raw data to data that is ready to be analyzed for insights.
Work with other functions to establish appropriate data quality controls, benchmarks, and meaningful model performance metrics.
Design and implement data visualizations to better understand the performance of our products, models and systems.
Pair-code and assist teams across the company on best practices in Tableau to ensure consistency and good data storytelling.
Engineer solutions in the context of well-maintained and well-documented code bases.
Communicate findings and results to stakeholders across the company.

We are looking for someone with

BA, MS or equivalent experience in relevant fields, such as Data Science, Computer Science, Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, or Computational Biology/Chemistry.
Industry experience as a data scientist (1 year preferred).
Skilled in the Tableau software for data visualization
Skilled in Python (specifically, the data scientist toolkit including pandas, matplotlib, seaborn/plotly, Jupyter notebook) and SQL
Good software engineering practices
Experience applying statistical frameworks to assess product or model performance
Highly motivated to contribute to our mission
Team oriented, able to thrive in a multidisciplinary environment
Excellent communicator, especially when it comes to colleagues from other specialties
Pluses: data visualization expertise, user research experience, strategic planning skills, experience developing APIs, product experience, experience in drug discovery research or the industry, scientific knowledge of biology and chemistry.

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We share a passion for being part of a mission that matters, and we are always looking for curious and collaborative people who share our values and want to be part of our journey. If that sounds like a fit for you, hit the apply button and join us.

About us

BenevolentAI unites AI with human expertise to discover new and more effective medicines. Our unique computational R&D platform spans every step of the drug discovery process, powering an in-house pipeline of over 25 drug programmes. We advance our mission to reinvent drug discovery by harnessing the power of a diverse team, rich with different backgrounds, experiences, opinions and personalities. In our offices in London and New York and research facility in Cambridge (UK), we work in highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams, harnessing skills across biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, machine learning, informatics, precision medicine and drug discovery.

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