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Associate Data Scientist (Part-Time)

Boston, MA 02118

Posted: 09/01/2026 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Data Management Job Number: 5184

Job Description


Onsite, Part-time: ~20 hrs/week (2-3 days/week)
Contract Term: 3-6 month initial contract, with possible extension

The Steely Group is working to help a Chemistry team with a new contract hire to their team in Boston, MA. We're building out the team's informatics function and looking for you, a Data Scientist (Associate Scientist through Senior Scientist level) to join on a contract basis, working closely alongside the client's informatics team member to support and expand their scientific data infrastructure. You'll be able to adapt ELN Dotmatics systems and database/data analysis tools to end-users requests. 

What you'll do:
  • Maintain and customize company's Dotmatics ELN (highly configurable, you'll be shaping it to R&D team's evolving needs)
  • Partner with biologists to set up and troubleshoot Dotmatics protocols
  • Optimize Oracle database performance and manage data upload/processing
  • Build data analysis tools and applications for chemistry and biology teams
  • Take on new customization projects fed from the Chemistry and Biology end-users


Requirements:
  • Dotmatics experience in adapting internal user workflows to cutomizations.
  • SQL (Oracle) database familiarity
  • R and/or Python programming
  • Comfort working fast-paced, cross-functionally with chemists and biologists as a helpful problem-solver

Nice-to-haves:
  • Cheminformatics background (a strong plus)
  • Git/version control, R Shiny app development
  • AWS or other cloud experience
  • Bioinformatics or AI/ML exposure
  • Prior biotech/industry experience
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