Data Scientist

Company: Equator Therapeutics
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Equator Therapeutics (YC W20) is a UCSF spinout dedicated to developing a drug to reverse metabolic disorders (obesity, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease) by activating the native heat production pathways in mitochondria.

We are looking to hire a passionate, highly motivated, intellectually curious & collegial data scientist. Job responsibilities will include processing, analyzing, visualizing, and archiving our experimental data on hundreds of chemical compounds. Knowledge of organic chemistry and/or computational chemistry is a major plus. Strength of interest and capacity to learn quickly are more important, and knowledge specific to drug development can be learned on the job.

Responsibilities
Assess quality, cleansing, structuring for downstream processing
Automatic processing of experimental data
Generate data analyses & visualizations to inform scientific decisions made by the team

Qualifications
Fluency in programming languages (at least one of Python & R)
Experience writing code in a collaborative context
Familiarity with best practices around version control

Bonuses
Scientific research experience
Active knowledge of organic chemistry
Experience working in the field of biotechnology
Ph.D. in a relevant scientific field

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