Senior Scientist, Computational Biology

Cambridge, MA, United States

What if... you could join an organization that creates, resources, and builds life sciences companies that invent breakthrough technologies to transform human health and sustainability?

Flagship Pioneering's venture creation engine has conceived and created companies such as Moderna Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MRNA), Rubius Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RUBY), Sana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: SANA), Generate Biomedicines, and Tessera Therapeutics. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in over $212 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship has deployed over $2.5 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. In 2021, Flagship Pioneering was ranked 12thglobally on Fortune's "Change the World" list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies.

The Company:

Quotient Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately held, early-stage company developing a novel genomics platform and therapeutics for diseases with a large unmet need.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a computational biologist who wants to leverage transcriptomic and genomic data to identify new ways to treat human diseases. The candidate brings enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, scientific rigor, and a deep-rooted desire to innovate. The successful candidate will be the data science lead within our biology team, helping to design and analyze in vitro and in vivo validation experiments.

Key Responsibilities:

Be an active member of a scientific team focused on the validation of novel targets, with the end goal of developing new therapeutics for diseases with large unmet needs

Work on collaborative project teams to design disease specific experiments and analyze results to address underlying biological questions

Develop and deploy statistical models to extract insight from transcriptomic and functional genomics experiments

Communicate key findings to stakeholders across the company, in written and presentation formats

Collaborate closely with other members across the organization

Qualifications:

PhD, or equivalent work-experience, in genmics or transcriptomics, computational biology, bioinformatics, or similar discipline is required

3-5 years of industry/post-doc experience working with transcriptomic and/or functional genomics data, with ability to process, analyze, and interpret these datasets

Can write and interpret data analysis code

Candidates with experience in (a) target validation or (b) human or cancer genomics analysis will be preferred

Strong leadership, management, and collaboration skills

Ability to work successfully in a matrix environment, prioritize and manage multiple tasks, integrate cross-functional issues and balance competing priorities effectively.

A high degree of energy, accuracy and attention to detail, and a passion for creating transformative medicines for patients with serious diseases

Preferred Attributes:

Experience with target validation in an industrial setting

Location: Cambridge, MA

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity's most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture. Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE's "Change the World" list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

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