Senior Data Engineer, Valo Health
Office located in Lexington, MA
Platform for drug development and discovery
Be an early applicant
Platform for drug development and discovery
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Office located in Lexington, MA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the drug discovery and development process faster, less expensive, and with a higher probability of success.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in data or software engineering
- Strong foundation in computer science; degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Proficient in Python, SQL, and modern cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, etc)
- Proven experience designing data pipelines and scalable data architectures
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and cloud-based data ecosystems
- Familiarity with CI/CD tool and automated workflows
Desirable
- Domain knowledge in biotech or life sciences
- Experience building and maintaining data pipelines in air-gapped environments
- Experience building governance frameworks from scratch using FAIR principles
- A strong bias towards cross-functional collaboration
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and implement scalable, high-quality data systems at Valo
- You will define core data schemas, standardize ingestion workflows, and help lay the foundation for a scalable, governed and FAIR-compliant data platform
- This role sits at the intersection of data science and software engineering, with broad exposure to scientific use cases
- A key part of your work will be helping make our foundational data platform as self-service as possible, empowering teams to follow best practices without friction
- Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable data pipelines and ingestion workflows
- Define and maintain schemas and tables in Snowflake and other systems
- Create reusable templates for data ingestion processes
- Build self-service tools and interfaces that help teams access and use data correctly and efficiently
- Write clean, maintainable and contribute to CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with data science and software engineering teams on shared infrastructure and tooling
Our take
Drug development is a critical component of health care. Reducing costs, improving discovery processes, and accelerating drug development are all critical to success in the drug pipeline. Using human-centric data and ML-anchored computation, Valo Health’s integrated drug development platform, known as Opal, improves outcomes in drug development, by leveraging advanced data analysis.
Drug development entails a variety of steps including molecule discovery, clinical development, and target discovery. With the vast amount of data that is generated, a system like Opal incentivizes investment in outcomes that are more likely to correspond with effective treatments. This reduces the number and expense of clinical trials needed to demonstrate drug effectiveness.
There are a variety of competitors in the data-driven drug discovery field, including insitro, Atomwise, and Exscietia, but this vast market should still offer enough space for Valo Health to grow. In 2021, the company experienced a set-back in the surprise calling off of a merger that would have seen it go public, but despite this has continued to operate well and advance towards its goal of transforming the drug development process.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2021
$1m
LATE VC
Jul 2021
$33.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $487.5m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Flexible Time-off
- 401K
- Corporate Engagement Opportunities with Local Non-Profit Organizations
- Commuter Reimbursement
- Fitness Reimbursement
- Pet Insurance
Company HQ
Back Bay East, Boston, MA
Leadership
Brian Alexander
(CEO)Also a Partner at Flagship Pioneering. Previously SVP of Genentech, CEO of Foundation Medicine and was a n Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Brett Blackman
(COO)Member of the Board of Directors at Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute. Previously Interim Chief Scientific Officer at Omega Therapeutics and was a Strategic R&D Advisor at Ohana Biosciences, Inc.
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