# Senior / Principal Computational Biologist at Flagship Pioneering

- Company: Flagship Pioneering
- What the company does: Pioneering Partnerships Latest News.
- Company website: https://www.flagshippioneering.com
- Type: VC firms
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Somerville, MA USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $179K to $236K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://boards.greenhouse.io/flagshippioneeringinc/jobs/8742220002?gh_jid=8742220002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/flagship-pioneering-senior-principal-computational-biologist/

## About the role

What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way. Are you a highly motivated and detail-oriented computational biologist passionate about understanding complex biological systems and disease through single-cell omics and large-scale patient datasets ? This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and application of Cellarity's platform for drug discovery.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Extensive experience in analyzing and deriving hypotheses from single-cell and bulk transcriptomic data, preferably also with large-scale single-cell atlases
- Demonstrated understanding of molecular and systems biology, diverse molecular data types, and analysis tools. Proven ability to bridge wet lab and computational efforts and collaborate effectively across functions
- Practical programming and scripting skills, preferably in Python
- Fluency with AI tools to accelerate daily scientific work (incl. coding assistants, LLMs, and agentic workflows), while maintaining high scientific rigor over the outputs
- Fast learner, analytical thinker, independent, "hands-on", strong communication skills

Tags: Computational & Data Sciences