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Principal Scientist, Data Science; Translational Engineering

Job in Raritan, Somerset County, New Jersey, 08869, USA
Listing for: Scorpion Therapeutics
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 - 190000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 190000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Position Summary

  • Design and implement semantic and knowledge architecture enabling AI-driven reasoning across the drug discovery and development lifecycle.
  • Lead ontology development, knowledge graph design, semantic interoperability, and AI-ready knowledge representation.
Mission
  • Build the semantic foundation for AI reasoning across discovery, preclinical, clinical, and post-marketing domains while preserving meaning, provenance, and translational fidelity.
Key Responsibilities
  • Semantic Architecture & Knowledge Modeling:
    Design/maintain enterprise knowledge models (discovery biology, toxicology, safety pharmacology, pathology, clinical development, pharmacovigilance, real-world evidence); create conceptual/logical/physical knowledge models.
  • Ontology Engineering & Governance:
    Lead ontology strategy, development, governance, lifecycle management; ensure semantic consistency, provenance/traceability, FAIR principles.
  • Knowledge Graph & Reasoning Infrastructure:
    Build RDF-based knowledge graphs; develop mappings/inference rules/reasoning frameworks; enable GraphRAG, semantic retrieval, AI agents; establish interoperability.
  • Translational Data Harmonization:
    Create semantic bridges across SEND, SDTM, ADaM, MedDRA, HPO, MONDO, SNOMED CT, FHIR, OMOP, Cell Ontology, Protein Ontology.
  • Scientific & Cross-Functional Leadership:
    Partner with translational, safety, data science, AI/platform teams; influence semantic strategy and standards communities.
  • Required Qualifications
    • PhD or Master’s in Biomedical Informatics/Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Computer Science/Information Science/Knowledge Engineering or related.
    • 5+ years in biomedical informatics, semantic technologies, knowledge engineering, or scientific data architecture.
    • Experience designing ontology-driven knowledge systems across drug discovery/development phases.
    • Expertise: ontology governance, knowledge representation; RDF/OWL/SHACL/SPARQL; semantic web technologies.
    Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience building semantic foundations for AI/GraphRAG/agentic AI/scientific reasoning; LLM-based retrieval/reasoning.
    • Contributions to ontology standards/open-source biomedical ontologies/knowledge graphs.
    Benefits (time off)
    • Vacation 120 hrs/yr;
      Sick time 40 hrs/yr (Colorado 48; Washington 56);
      Holiday pay incl. floating holidays 13 days/yr;
      Parental leave 480 hrs; plus other listed leave time.
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