The Position: 

We are looking for an experienced data scientist working in the life sciences industry to join the infrastructure and operations team at Maze Therapeutics. As an Associate Director you will be working with scientists across the organization to identify and drive data science initiatives towards accelerating drug discovery. At Maze, we are impact obsessed in every initiative and as part of your role, you will be responsible for evaluating beyond the hype of the latest technologies and identifying tools that could productively augment our tool chest that we draw from, to support various steps of the target and drug discovery life cycle and help push the needle forward.  

This role reports to the Vice President of R&D Infrastructure and Operations where you will be joining a small team of highly motivated individuals with diverse skills from chemistry, cell biology, bioengineering, and software engineering who work together to support our scientists in achieving our goal to transform the lives of patients. 

Your Impact: 

  • Drive the overall strategy for application of data sciences across the organization, ensuring alignment with our mission and vision.
  • Process, stage, and manage large volume genomic datasets to support analysis workstreams.
  • Incorporate protein language models and other large language models (LLMs) to predict variant effects, protein structures, and their interactions towards accelerating drug discovery. 
  • ⁠Evaluate and implement new data sciences capabilities to support target identification, validation, drug discovery, and patient stratification.
  • Work closely with computational chemistry/biology, structural biology, and other quantitative biology groups to evaluate and apply appropriate machine learning models to augment the Maze Compass Platform™ and accelerate drug discovery.
  • Collaborate with computational biology to build and maintain bioinformatics pipelines and work with Informatics to build and maintain the scientific computing infrastructure.
  • Manage the data science team, guiding scientific computing efforts, and driving FAIR data principle education and evangelization of data sciences.  

As an Associate Director, we also expect our leaders to demonstrate the following Leadership Competencies:  

Leadership Competencies

  • Communication and Influence
    • Communicates the reasoning behind decisions to appropriate stakeholders. 
    • Promotes open communication with internal and external stakeholders. 
    • Fosters healthy and respectful debate. 
  • Teamwork and Collaboration 
    • Creates opportunities for team members to connect with others outside of team. 
    • Manages conflict effectively between teams. 
    • Openly values thoughts, opinions, and contributions of employees. 
  • Execution and Results
    • Exercises astute judgment to make decisions with only the necessary amount of data. 
    • Supports team members in creating their own resolutions to challenges and problems. 
    • Works with others to reinforce process compliance, what good looks like, and risk mitigation. 
  • Develop Others and Self
    • Articulates what good looks like throughout Maze. 
    • Pursues development activities for continuous improvement of self and team. 

Skills and Qualifications: 

  • Advanced degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, bioengineering, or other relevant quantitative discipline (statistics, mathematics, engineering, etc.)
  • 10+ years of work experience in data science roles within drug discovery organizations
  • A deep understanding of statistical analysis methods, data engineering, and genomic pipeline development
  • Proficiency in scientific or quantitative computing platforms (Python or R)
  • Experience handling large volume omics/genetics datasets, high-performance clusters, and cloud computing (AWS, GCP, spark)
  • Familiarity with small molecule drug discovery tools and workstreams.
  • Knowledge of best practices in reproducible scientific computing (git, documentation, FAIR principles, etc.) and with common bioinformatics software and toolkits
  • Proven track record of working with multidisciplinary teams and leveraging large public datasets to facilitate novel target discovery and refine patient selection.  

 

About Maze Therapeutics 

Maze Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that is harnessing the power of human genetics to transform the lives of patients, with a focus on genetically informed therapies for common diseases, such as chronic kidney disease, and seeks to focus expertise and resources towards underserved communities. Maze applies variant functionalization in tandem with advanced data science methods and a robust suite of research and development capabilities to advance a pipeline of novel precision medicines. Maze has developed the Maze Compass Platform™, a proprietary, purpose-built platform to understand and integrate the critical step of variant functionalization into each stage of drug development. Utilizing the Maze Compass Platform™, Maze is building a broad portfolio of wholly owned and partnered programs. Its two lead programs are focused on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a condition that impacts an estimated 37m individuals. The first program in CKD addresses a genetic subset of the common disease that has a disproportionate impact on the Black Community. Maze is based in South San Francisco. 

Our People 

Maze is comprised of a team of passionate and creative professionals committed to discovering and delivering transformative medicines to patients suffering from both rare and common genetic diseases. We are fostering a culture that encourages vision, initiative and the development of talent. Our supportive work environment inspires creative thinking and freedom of expression, resulting in a stimulating atmosphere where people enjoy coming to work. While we have a passion for advanced science and pride ourselves on excellence in execution, ultimately, everything we do is about patients.  

Our Core Values

Further Together – Our path is paved with challenges, but with resilience and a team-first mentality, we’ll achieve our mission. 

Impact Obsessed – We embrace the bold, take calculated risks, and learn from our mistakes to improve the lives of others.

Stand True – Our integrity is foundational; it guides us no matter the obstacle.

The expected annual salary range for employees located in the San Francisco Bay Area is $202,000 - $245,000. Additionally, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus. Maze performs position-based compensation benchmarking to industry market data to ensure we pay competitive wages. Determination of starting salary will depend upon a variety of job-related factors, which may include professional experience, skills, and job location. The expected salary range for this role may be modified in the future.  

Maze offers a robust benefits package to our eligible employees including competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance, mental health offerings, equity incentive plan, 401(k) program with employer match and a generous holiday and PTO policy. 

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