Data Scientist

Position Title

Associate Staff - Data Scientist

The Bioanalytics Systems & Technologies Group focuses on driving analytic and AI/ML solutions that leverage vast and rapidly expanding biological datasets to address national security needs. The Group’s efforts include developing software architectures, bioinformatics tools, and AI algorithms to support biomedical, health, chemical and biological defense, biosecurity, public and global health, and warfighter performance.

The role involves leading the development of AI/ML models, data curation, planning and conducting field data collections, leading small programs, collaborating with other scientists and engineers, and communicating results both in written and oral form.

• Master’s in Data Science, Computational Biology, Biomedical Informatics, AI, or related scientific field; or equivalent experience.
• In lieu of a Master’s, a bachelor’s degree with 3–5 years of directly related experience will be considered.
• Experience with AI development, including applying large language models (LLMs) for retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) for biomedical problems.
• Experience in developing data pipelines from harmonizing, curating and aggregating data; familiarity with molecular, physiological and/or clinical data is a plus.
• Ability to work collaboratively and lead highly interdisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated skills in scientific writing and clear presentation of technical materials to a wide spectrum of audiences.
• Experience with bioinformatic processing and analysis of sequence (genomics/transcriptomic), proteomics, and chemical data using open‑source and custom tools.
• This role is onsite only.

Recent Graduate Hiring Range: $116,400 – $140,000

Experienced Hiring Range: $116,400 – $182,200

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate’s experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements.

This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
• MIT‑funded pension
• Matching 401K
• Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
• Mentorship programs
• A range of work‑life balance options
• … and much more!

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre‑employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or genetic information; U.S. citizenship is required.

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Location:

Lexington, MA

Nearest Major Market:
Boston

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Dec 7, 2025

MIT Lincoln Laboratory