Drug Hunter
Director, Scientific Data & Informatics
United States +1 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Location
- United States
Boston, Massachusetts - Experience
- 10+ years, including 3+ years leading people or a data function.
- Education
- PhD in cheminformatics, bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology, or a related quantitative life-science field.
About the job
Leads Drug Hunter’s scientific data strategy and team, ensuring scientific information across its knowledge platform and databases is represented, integrated, curated, and maintained reliably.
What you'll do
- Set data representation, curation, ontology, quality, and extraction standards across scientific sources.
- Partner with Science, Engineering, and Product to shape data models, architecture, and project priorities.
- Lead, mentor, and manage the Data team and translate priorities into executable projects.
What they ask for
- PhD in cheminformatics, bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology, or a related quantitative life-science field.
- 10+ years working with scientific data in drug discovery, biotech, or life science data/informatics companies, including 3+ years leading people or a data function.
- Working cheminformatics literacy and fluency in bioinformatics, including biological databases, ontologies, and identifier mapping.
- Strong data modeling skills and hands-on proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with data pipelines and modern data tooling.
Tools
RDKit, Python, SQL
AI focus
Define approaches for extracting structured scientific information from unstructured literature and patent content, including chemical structures, text, and tables.
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