Insmed is a global biopharmaceutical company on a mission to transform the lives of patients living with serious and rare diseases. Our most valuable resource is our employees, and everything we do is motivated by a patients-first mentality. We are dedicated to growing our team with talented individuals from around the world who are willing to challenge the status quo, solve problems, and work collaboratively with a sense of urgency and compassion. 

Guided by our core values of collaboration, accountability, passion, respect, and integrity, we aim to foster an inclusive, diverse, and flexible work environment, where our employees are recognized for leaning in and rolling up their sleeves. If you share our vision and want to work with the most dedicated people in the biopharma industry, come to Insmed to accelerate your career. 

 

 

One of the Best Places to Work in the UK Across our global locations, we’re dedicated to making a meaningful impact on patients’ lives while building a positive and inclusive culture. In 2024, Insmed was listed as one of the Best Places to Work in the UK by The Sunday Times—a designation based on employees’ perceptions of reward and recognition, instilling pride, information sharing, empowerment, wellbeing, and job satisfaction.

 

	Consistently Ranked Science’s Top Employer  Insmed is dedicated to creating a collaborative environment where our team can thrive. Every day, our employees turn their passion for science and research into innovative solutions for patients. That’s why we’ve been named the No. 1 company to work for in the biopharma industry in Science’s Top Employers survey for four years in a row.

 

A Certified Great Place to Work® We believe our company is truly special, and our employees agree. In July 2024, we became Great Place to Work-certified in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row. We are also honored to have been listed on the Best Workplaces in Biopharma™, Best Workplaces in New York™, PEOPLE® Companies That Care, Best Workplaces for Women™, Best Workplaces for Millennials™, and Best Medium Workplaces™ lists.

 

Data Scientist I/II We are looking to recruit a talented data scientist to join our growing informatics and data science team. As a data scientist, you will apply your expertise in programming, statistical analysis, and data mining across a wide range of projects to support and accelerate Insmed Innovation UK’s drug discovery and development programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a contributor in a dynamic multidisciplinary team, designing appropriate analyses and implementing statistical models.
• Provide analytical and statistical rigour to empower better decision making during experimental design.
• Act as a subject expert, working with scientists and project leads to perform in silico experiments and promote hypothesis driven data interrogation.
• Promote data integrity by employing current Insmed best practices for data handling and storage, to empower broadscale analyses.
• Liaise with internal and external collaborators.

Qualifications and other requirementsRequired:

• A PhD (or a MSc plus equivalent experience) in bioinformatics, biology, genetics, medicine, machine learning, statistics, computer science or a similar area
• A keen interest in data science and machine learning and a passion for understanding complex data.
• Experience utilising machine learning or Bayesian models, particularly when applied to sparse or minimal data sets
• Confident coding in python and using common third-party python libraries (pytorch, pyspark, scikitlearn, scipy, pandas, ...etc).
• Experience presenting findings to non-experts
• A good understanding of statistics and their application across a range of data types.
• Experience with git version control, preferably with familiarity of branching and merging

Desirable:

• Experience working and coding within a team
• Experience working with structed data and SQL databases
• Experience with Docker
• Experience analysing gene perturbation studies (e.g. siRNA, CRISPR, Base editing, Prime editing, …etc).
• Knowledge of common genetic association methodologies (e.g., GWAS, gene burden)
• Experience developing tools within a cloud environment (AWS, gcloud, Azure, …etc,)

Position details:

• This position is an onsite (Cambridge, UK) – with an option for Hybrid working.

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We’re committed to investing in every team member’s total well-being, now and in the future. We offer a competitive total-rewards package to all employees around the world.

Insmed Incorporated is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

Insmed is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us by email at TotalRewards@insmed.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

 

Unsolicited resumes from agencies should not be forwarded to Insmed. Insmed will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes through this source. Insmed will only pay a fee to agencies if a formal agreement between Insmed and the agency has been established. The Human Resources department is responsible for all recruitment activities; please contact us directly to be considered for a formal agreement.

 

Applications are accepted for 5 calendar days from the date posted or until the position is filled.