Data Engineer, Discovery Informatics

About Exscientia

Exscientia is an AI-driven pharmatech company committed to discovering, designing and developing the best possible drugs in the fastest and most effective manner. Exscientia developed the first-ever functional precision oncology platform to successfully guide treatment selection and improve patient outcomes in a prospective interventional clinical study, as well as to progress AI-designed small molecules into the clinical setting. Our pipeline demonstrates our ability to rapidly translate scientific concepts into precision-designed therapeutic candidates, with more than 25 projects underway. By designing better drugs, faster, we believe the best ideas of science can rapidly become the best medicines for patients.

As the lead Data Engineer in our Discovery Informatics department, you will be centrally involved in developing highly innovative products that support decision making in drug discovery as part of our AI-enabled drug discovery. You will be part of a fast-paced, and multidisciplinary team, developing novel products for both greenfield and established projects. We expect our team members to be experts in their field and to bring new ideas to ensure we are continuing to developing high quality software and data products. We are strongly committed to continuing professional development for all staff.

Where will you be based? This role can be based in our modern offices in Boston or Miami on the East Coast of the US, or Dundee or Oxford in the UK, where you can reap the benefits of our endless supply of office snacks, or you can be based remotely.

Requirements

• 3-8+ years software engineering experience.
• Expertise in Python/Scala applied to scientific data manipulation with commercial experience
• Expertise in creating and using diverse database types e.g. relational, no-SQL, graph
• Deep experience in using Linux e.g. shell scripting, text processing tools - grep awk, sed, web data tools – wget, APIs, etc.
• Experience in building scalable data extraction and query pipelines e.g. Prefect, KNIME, Elasticsearch/Lucene, Logstash, Kibana, etc.
• Experience in developing practical software solutions for a diverse set of problems.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence requirements.
• Ideally knowledge of core life science data sources, and text mining approaches.

Benefits

• Work together to make a positive contribution to patients by revolutionising the pharmaceutical industry through AI-driven discovery.
• We will work with you to kick-start or further grow your career – from funding for professional development and conference attendance. To the opportunity to acquire valuable skills, work on problems that matter, and learn from world-class technological and scientific leaders.
• Opportunity to join an inclusive, collaborative and intellectually stimulating culture
• We will work with you to provide a highly competitive compensation as we continue to grow and thrive.
• Our team’s health and well-being is important to us we offer a generous holiday allowance, provide flexible working and remote working to encourage all of our team to manage their own work, time and life along with wellbeing and mindfulness support.
• When you are in the office, you will have access to a kitchen stocked with an endless supply of food for all employees. Along with access plenty of break out areas so you can get to know the people you are working with. Some of the best ideas start with a coffee break!
• Hear from our team why they enjoy working here