Insitro
Senior Data Scientist, CompBio
$183K–$194K
South San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of working experience post-graduation.
- Education
- Ph.D. in computational biology, systems biology, bioengineering, computer science, machine learning, or a related discipline.
About the job
Analyzes multimodal biological data to uncover disease mechanisms, identify therapeutic targets and biomarkers, and guide drug development.
What you'll do
- Integrate data from microscopy, proteomics, RNA-seq, and human cohorts to generate disease insights and therapeutic hypotheses.
- Analyze perturbation-screen and other data to identify therapeutic targets and biomarkers.
- Partner with experimental biologists on study design, assay development, analysis benchmarking, and communication of findings.
What they ask for
- Ph.D. in computational biology, systems biology, bioengineering, computer science, machine learning, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of working experience post-graduation.
- Hands-on experience with diverse data modalities, including at least one of: single-cell RNA-seq, fluorescence microscopy, spatial proteomics or transcriptomics, or label-free microscopy.
- Strong programming ability and proficiency with Python scientific packages such as NumPy and pandas.
Pay
$183,000 - $194,000 USD base salary
Tools
microscopy, spatial proteomics, bulk/single-cell RNA-seq, human cohort data, Python, NumPy, pandas
AI focus
Uses machine learning and multimodal biological data to develop predictive disease models, identify therapeutic targets and biomarkers, and inform drug development.
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