Associate Director of Computational Cancer Immunology

Job description

Working with Us
Challenging.

Meaningful.

Life-changing.

Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job.

But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual.

Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department.

From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams.

Take your career farther than you thought possible.

When you join BMS, you are joining a diverse, high-achieving team united by a common mission.

The Informatics and Predictive Sciences (IPS) mission is to Pioneer, Partner and Predict to drive transformative insights for patient benefit.

IPS conducts applied computational research in areas that include genomic, structural and molecular informatics, computational and systems biology, patient selection and translational biomarker research, and broader fields including knowledge science, epidemiology and machine learning—across the full lifecycle of drug discovery and development and across all therapeutic areas at BMS.

We do this in close partnership with scientific and clinical experts in the field, both inside and outside the company.

We perform innovative science to empower key data-driven decisions across a rich pipeline of next-generation medicines.

In doing so, our work transforms the lives of patients, as well as our own lives and careers.

Here, you’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope.

You’ll pursue innovative ideas while advancing professionally alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma.

We seek a creative and passionate computational biologist with a strong background in drug discovery and cancer immunology to join the Oncology team within Informatics and Predictive Sciences (IPS).

In this role, you will lead a team focused on using cutting edge machine learning and advanced statistical methods to analyze high-dimensional patient and pre-clinical data.

In partnering with biologists to build and prosecute a discovery cancer immunology portfolio, you and your team will be responsible for identifying and developing novel pre-clinical cancer immunology therapeutic concepts.

In this role, you will collaboratively define and implement the computational strategy focused on cancer immunology.

Your work will directly impact the discovery and development of novel therapies for cancer patients.

Key Responsibilities

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation Overview:

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary.

Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work.

This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs.

The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility.

Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility.

For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture.

For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles.

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BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities.

As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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Required Skill Profession

Life Scientists