Data Scientist

The Data and Analytics team is focused on creating competitive advantage for Synthego through data infrastructure, metrics, insights and data services.  The work helps inform decisions and direction for our business while also impacting our products and operations through insight and automation.
As a member of the team, your core responsibilities in this role will be to work with department leads to identify metrics, create reports, understand large data sets, derive insights that get acted on to improve the business, build/maintain internal systems for analysis and help monitor core company performance metrics.  In this role, your work will broadly influence the company's products, operations, commercial activities, and data consumers.  We are looking for a candidate with a knowledge of SQL and a passion for data science and impact.

What You'll Do

• Develop reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of our company.
• Develop new insights and analyses that inform decisions or plans
• Partner with other business areas to perform data mining, statistical analysis, validation, and data visualization from a variety of sources to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities.
• Actively maintain the integrity and performance of analytics systems
• Provide advice and education in the usage and interpretation of data to business users.

About You

• B.S. or B.A. in math, economics, engineering or other technical field preferred; advanced degrees a plus
• 3-5 years of relevant experience including applying analytics to scientific, sales, marketing, product, operations and/or financial data
• Excellent SQL skills: experience querying large, complex data sets 
• Experience with scalable relational databases (eg Snowflake/Vertica//Redshift/…). Snowflake experience is a plus 
• Proficiency with reporting tools like Tableau, Looker, Periscope, Microstrategy etc.  Tableau experience is a strong plus
• Ability to execute research projects, and generate practical results and recommendations
• Good communication.  Ability to partner with other teams to envision and execute on projects together. 

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree MA/MS or PhD in statistics, machine learning, economics, engineering or other technical field
• Strong background in statistics is a plus (experience with Python including NumPy, Pandas and Scikit-learn data libraries, SAS, SPSS, R, Stata or similar) 
• Background in biology (molecular biology, immunology, biochemistry, bioinformatics) is a plus.

About Us Synthego is a genome engineering company that enables the acceleration of life science research and development in the pursuit of improved human health.
The company leverages machine learning, automation, and gene editing to build platforms for science at scale. With its foundations in engineering disciplines, the company’s platforms vertically integrate proprietary hardware, software, bioinformatics, chemistries, and molecular biology to advance basic research, target validation, and clinical trials.
By providing both commercial and academic researchers and therapeutic developers with unprecedented access to cutting-edge genome engineering, Synthego is at the forefront of innovation, accelerating the development of truly engineered biology.