Staff Data Scientist, Graph ML
About the role
About Us
Valo Health is a human-centric, AI-enabled biotechnology company working to make new drugs for patients faster. The company's Opal Computational Platform transforms drug discovery and development through a unique combination of real-world data, AI, human translational models and predictive chemistry.
Our talented team of biologists, chemists and engineers, armed with advanced AI/ML tools, work together to break down traditional R&D silos and accelerate the speed and scale of drug discovery and development.
Valo is committed to hiring diverse talent, prioritizing growth and development, fostering an inclusive environment, and creating opportunities to bring together a group of different experiences, backgrounds, and voices to work together. We embrace new ways of learning, solve complex problems and welcome diverse perspectives that can help us advance patient-centric innovation.
Staff Data Scientist, Graph ML
As Staff Data Scientist, Graph ML, you will develop and deploy graph ML solutions to synthesize and extract novel insights from Valo data in the context of a vast corpus of knowledge in medicine, molecular biology, human genetics, and drugs, to drive compute-enabled biological hypothesis generation. Our innovative platform leverages advanced computational techniques, starting with patient data, to bring better medicines to patients, faster. You will be responsible for developing and delivering graph ML and network biology-based analyses that generate and support drug target hypotheses on the path to discovery of new medicines. You will collaborate closely with a diverse group of data scientists and biologists to enable the contextualization of predicted drug targets within relevant patient subpopulations. You will also be accountable for communicating methodological approaches and key results to internal and external cross-functional stakeholders. Additionally, you will work with other data scientists, software engineers, and data engineers to continue building and improving Valo's integrated graph platform to accelerate insights across multiple projects and applications.
A successful candidate brings deep technical expertise in graph machine learning, network analytics, and modern data science best practices, along with experience in biology research in the context of drug discovery, and curiosity and excitement to learn.
What You'll Do…
- Lead the design, implementation and application of graph ML and network biology approaches to target discovery from RWD and multi-omic datasets.
- Prototype new approaches aimed at enhancing and improving Valo's graph platform, seeking out new