Formation Bio

Formation Bio

Associate Director/Director, Data Science, EHR AI

Boston, MA; New York, NY · Director

Sponsorship not specified$214k-$267kDetected 2 days ago
PythonMachine LearningSparkData ScienceLLMsStatisticsBusiness DevelopmentEHR/EMRICD-10ResearchLeadershipCommunicationEpidemiology

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Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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About the role

  • About Formation Bio Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development.
  • The company is backed by investors across pharma and tech, including a16z, Sequoia, Sanofi, Thrive Capital, John Doerr, Spark Capital, SV Angel Growth, and others.
  • You will work with large-scale, longitudinal EHR data from health systems, linked to claims, clinical notes, and imaging, alongside biobank-scale genetic and molecular data.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the EHR AI team within Data Science: set technical strategy, hire and develop the team, and own delivery against portfolio priorities
  • Build and validate predictive models on longitudinal EHR and claims data (disease progression, time-to-event outcomes, patient-level treatment response) with evaluation designs that hold up under temporal and cross-site shift
  • Deliver fast, rigorous EHR and RWE analyses for Business Development diligence and R&D programs: cohort definition and feasibility, natural history, patient segmentation, and endpoint and trial design support
  • Deliver fast, rigorous

Requirements

  • PhD in computer science, biomedical informatics, statistics, epidemiology, or a related quantitative field (required)
  • 2+ years of people management, leading data scientists or ML researchers as direct reports
  • Hands-on proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks
  • you can review code and run experiments yourself

Nice to have

  • Experience pretraining, fine-tuning, or rigorously benchmarking EHR foundation models or LLM-based approaches to patient timelines
  • Use of LLMs for clinical text, such as phenotyping or information extraction from clinical notes
  • Experience with OHDSI tools and network studies, or with large linked EHR and biobank resources (e.g., All of Us, UK Biobank)

Compensation

  • Associate Director $213,500 - $267,000; Director $245,500 - $307,000
  • Individual compensation is determined by several factors, including role scope, geographic location, and skills & experience.
  • In addition to base salary, we offer equity, comprehensive benefits, and generous perks.

Benefits

  • Partner with Engineering and Product to turn prototypes into reusable, self-serve capabilities, and with data partners on dataset selection and fitness for use
  • Our Vision for AI in Pharma

Company info

  • You can read more at the following links: - Our Vision for AI in Pharma - Our Current Drug Portfolio - Our Technology & Platform At Formation Bio, our values are the driving force behind our mission to revolutionize the pharma industry.
  • Every team and individual at the company shares these same values, and every team and individual plays a key part in our mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.
  • We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
  • Our Technology & Platform

Equal opportunity

  • Formation Bio is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
  • We've seen a rise in recruiting impersonation scams across the industry, where fake profiles pose as recruiters aiming to trick candidates into sharing personal and financial information through illegitimate interviews and job offers. All legitimate recruiting communications from Formation Bio will come from a @formation.bio email address. If you receive outreach from someone claiming to work at Formation Bio through any other domain or channel, please disregard it and do not share any personal information.
  • Formation Bio is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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