Loyal
Senior Statistician, Research & Development
$107K–$164K
Remote - US +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- Remote - US
Remote - Experience
- 8+ years of relevant statistical experience, with independent ownership of a preclinical or translational statistics portfolio.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Pharmacometrics, or a related field.
About the job
Leads independent statistical strategy and analysis for preclinical research programs, supporting veterinary drug development and the company’s path to FDA CVM approval.
What you'll do
- Lead study design, power analysis, and statistical work across preclinical programs, including PK/PD, survival, dose-response, biomarker, and mortality modeling.
- Conduct exploratory analyses for endpoint development and target/pathway discovery, and serve as statistical contact for cross-functional R&D programs.
- Create reproducible analyses, support clinical biostatistics and regulatory-facing work, mentor junior statisticians, and review statistical methods and deliverables.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Pharmacometrics, or a related field.
- Hands-on population PK/PD modeling experience, including nonlinear mixed-effects models and exposure-response analysis.
- Experience in experimental design, survival and longitudinal analysis, and post-hoc statistical analysis.
- Fluency in R and/or Python; AI tools fluency.
Nice to have
- Veterinary, animal health, or translational aging research; data validation pipelines; or regulatory-facing statistical writing.
- Experience with Rmarkdown/Quarto or Jupyter for reproducible reporting; interest in growing into clinical trial biostatistics.
Pay
$107,000 - 164,000 (base salary)
Tools
WinNonLin, NONMEM, nlmixr2, Monolix, R, Python, Quarto, Rmarkdown
AI focus
Fluency in AI tools (e.g., Claude code) is required; the posting does not specify other AI responsibilities.
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