[Hiring] Senior Scientific Data Engineer @TetraScience

Role Description

You will join TetraScience's forward deployed teams as a senior, hands-on engineer. In this role, you will work directly with biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific companies, bringing advanced data and AI technologies into the labs that research, develop, and manufacture medicines. You will work alongside customer scientific, engineering, and IT teams to design, build, and ship integrations and data products on Tetra OS that serve scientific teams across the globe. You will also mentor other scientific data engineers, lead internal design sessions, and partner with Product Managers and Solution Architects to turn customer, product, and engineering objectives into commercialized solutions.

• Act as a forward deployed engineer for a portfolio of biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific customers.
• Own the technical relationship, understand their scientific workflows, and deliver solutions that move their programs forward.
• Drive AI agents to design and build bidirectional integrations between Tetra OS and customer systems such as ELN, LIMS, MES, and process historians.
• Design and build serverless push and pull pipelines, stateful connectors, and full stack data applications in Python and TypeScript.
• Drive AI agents to design and build comprehensive data schemas and parsers for scientific data from R&D lab instruments, manufacturing, CRO, CDMO, ELN, and LIMS sources.
• Deploy and test solutions in customer environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid networks.
• Troubleshoot across the full stack when something breaks.
• Work with product managers, solution architects, business analysts, data architects, and ML engineers to understand business requirements.
• Recommend outcomes and build best-in-class data products based on consensus.
• Create and enforce designs with quality backed by comprehensive test automation.
• Lead process and technology improvements supporting product quality, developer experience, and platform capabilities.
• Rally the team to finish Agile sprint commitments.
• Actively surface team inefficiencies and resolve them.
• Drive results and bring pragmatic urgency to resolving blockers and unclear requirements.
• Provide mentorship to junior scientific data engineers and show leadership on every front.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building data products as a Data Engineer or in a similar field.
• 8+ years working in Python and SQL with a focus on data, integrations, and scientific applications.
• Expertise in Python and working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, and React.
• History leading customer-facing implementation projects across cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with non-clinical data and lab scientists.
• Familiarity with the biotech and pharmaceutical industry and regulated environments such as GxP.
• Familiarity with networking, CI/CD, and full stack development.
• Familiarity with cloud engineering on AWS, including core services such as S3, Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, EC2, and CloudWatch.
• Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to take control of project delivery.
• Ability to quickly understand a highly technical product and communicate effectively with customers, product management, and engineering leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Stock options in a VC-backed Series C company.
• 100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members.
• 401(k).
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Company-paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $200,000 USD Annually. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity.