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MIT Lincoln Laboratory · 1 day ago

Data Scientist

Lexington, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$116K/yr - $182K/yr

3+ years exp

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is focused on driving analytic and AI/ML solutions to address national security needs through the Bioanalytics Systems & Technologies Group. The role involves developing software architectures, bioinformatics tools, and AI algorithms to support efforts in various biomedical applications.

BiotechnologyInformation TechnologyNational SecuritySecurity

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Developing and applying new AI models for a broad set of applications: chemical and biological detection from wearable sensors, predicting causality markers for diseases, developing foundation models, and using GenAI models for a broad range of biomedical and clinical applications

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

Qualification

AI developmentLarge language modelsData pipelinesBioinformaticsScientific writingCollaboration

Required

Master's in Data Science, Computational Biology, Biomedical Informatics, AI, or related scientific field or equivalent experience in technical analysis. In lieu of a Master's degree, a bachelor's degree with 3 to 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

Ability to work collaboratively and lead highly interdisciplinary teams

Demonstrated skills in scientific writing, as well as development and clear presentation of technical materials to a wide spectrum of technical and non-technical 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

Preferred

Familiarity with molecular, physiological and/or clinical data

Experience with bioinformatic processing and analysis of sequence (genomics/transcriptomic), proteomics, and chemical data using open-source and custom tools is highly desirable