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Scientific Data Engineer in USA

  • Merge Labs
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain reusable Python libraries for scientific and image analysis and quality control.
  • Build and operate reproducible analysis pipelines integrated with workflow-management and scientific data systems.
  • Define data models for raw data, experimental metadata, derived results, and analysis provenance across experimental assays.
  • Partner with wet-lab and computational scientists to translate scientific questions into requirements, validated methods, and maintainable software.
  • Establish testing, validation, versioning, observability, and failure-handling practices for scientific workflows.
  • Evaluate external methods and tools, make build-versus-buy decisions, and define evolvable system interfaces.
  • Balance immediate experimental needs with shared infrastructure investments that improve consistency, interoperability, and research velocity.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering experience in Python, including API design, testing, packaging, code review, and collaborative development with Git.
  • Experience designing and implementing image-analysis pipelines for scientific data and selecting, configuring, and validating classical or learned methods.
  • Experience with rigorous scientific computing practices, including quantitative validation, quality control, reproducibility, provenance, and explicit failure-mode handling.
  • Experience building production or research workflows with an orchestration system such as Dagster, Prefect, or Airflow.
  • Experience working directly with wet-lab scientists to clarify ambiguous needs, communicate trade-offs, and develop scientifically valid solutions.
  • Ability to distinguish assay-specific requirements from reusable infrastructure and make trade-offs involving delivery speed, maintainability, reliability, performance, and cost.
  • Demonstrated ownership and judgment in breaking ambiguous work into milestones, surfacing risks, and independently driving projects to completion.
  • Helpful qualifications include experience with Bazel or another large monorepo build system, next-generation sequencing, spatial omics, ultrasound, other scientific data modalities, or early-stage research environments.

Salary: $185k - $225k/yr

Merge Labs

Merge Labs is a research lab with the long-term mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency and experience. Join us: merge.io/careers

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