Pharmaceutical Data Scientist

The successful candidate will work at the interface of materials science, scientific informatics, data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and computational tool development . This role will collaborate closely with experimental and computational scientists to develop scientific and automated workflows, data-driven approaches, AI/ML models, scientific applications, and informatics solutions that improve how scientific data are accessed, parsed, analyzed, connected, visualized, and used for decision making.

About Eurofins

Data Scientist to join our team within the Pharmaceutical Small Molecule Materials Science Computational Sciences group.

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable.

From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services.

It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations.

It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 countries.

Responsibilities

• The position offers an opportunity to contribute to an evolving computational-experimental ecosystem connecting scientific data, predictive models, AI, and experimental knowledge .
• Develop and apply data science, AI/ML, and informatics approaches to address Pharmaceutical Materials Science challenges.
• Build scientific data workflows, analytics, and visualization tools that enable effective use of experimental and computational data.
• Develop tools and pipelines to extract, transform, standardize, and integrate data from experimental & computational workflows
• Automate repetitive or manual scientific data-processing and analysis workflows to improve efficiency, reproducibility, and scalability
• Design, develop, validate, and deploy computational tools and scientific applications supporting research and development workflows.
• Integrate diverse scientific datasets to enable data-driven insights, predictive modeling, and decision making .
• Partner with experimental and computational scientists to identify high-value opportunities and translate scientific needs into practical digital solutions.
• Promote reproducible scientific computing, good software-development practices, and adoption of data and AI capabilities across the organization.
• Bachelors degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Computational Science, Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering , or a related quantitative/scientific discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to work with complex and heterogenous scientific datasets, including extracting, transforming, integrating, and analyzing structured and/or unstructured data. translate scientific questions into data-driven analyses or computational solutions.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python , with demonstrated ability to analyze data and develop computational solutions.
• Experience with Pharmaceutical data analysis, processing, scientific computing, statistics, machine learning, AI, or scientific informatics .
• Familiarity with modern data-science, scientific computing, and machine-learning tools, libraries and frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate within multidisciplinary scientific teams.

Preferred

• Experience working with chemistry, pharmaceutical, materials-science, or laboratory-generated scientific data .
• Qualifications Experience developing scientific software, analytical applications, visualization tools, dashboards, automated workflows, or APIs.
• Experience with scientific databases, data integration, metadata, ontologies, knowledge graphs, or scientific informatics.
• Hands-on experience developing or applying machine-learning, deep-learning, generative-AI, or large-language-model approaches .
• Familiarity with modern software-development practices, including Git/version control, testing, documentation, and reproducible computing .
• Experience developing interactive scientific applications and user interfaces, including notebook-based environments such as Jupyter/JupyterLab and web-based frameworks or visualization platforms.
• Experience with cloud computing, high-performance computing, or scalable data-processing environments.
• Demonstrated ability to take a scientific problem from raw data → structured data → analysis/model → automated workflow or usable computational solution .
• Position is Monday- Friday 8:00 AM- 5:00PM.
• Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
• In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.72 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Benefits

• Overtime as needed.
• May be requested to work on weekends, overtime, and holidays based on business needs Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Groton, CT are encouraged to apply.
• Excellent full-time benefits, including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance 401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays #LI-EB1 Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship Eurofins USA PSS Insourcing Solutions is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer.