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# Data Scientist

- **Company:** MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- **Location:** Lexington, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $116,400.0 - $140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, Clinical Data Repository, Computational Biology, Open Source Technology, Large Language Models, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/84839186/1

## About the Role

* Master's in Data Science, Computational Biology, Biomedical Informatics, AI, or related scientific field or equivalent experience in technical analysis. In lieu of a Master's degree, a bachelor's degree with 3 to 5 years of directly related experience will be considered.
 * Experience with AI development including applying large language models (LLMs) for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for biomedical problems.
 * Experience in developing data pipelines from harmonizing, curating and aggregating data. Familiarity with molecular, physiological and/or clinical data a plus
 * Ability to work collaboratively and lead highly interdisciplinary teams.
 * Demonstrated skills in scientific writing, as well as development and clear presentation of technical materials to a wide spectrum of technical and non-technical audiences a plus
 * Experience with bioinformatic processing and analysis of sequence (genomics/transcriptomic), proteomics, and chemical data using open-source and custom tools is highly desirable
 * This role is onsite only



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