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About us

Discover your dog more than fur deep with the most comprehensive DNA test on the market. Designed by world leaders in dog genetics, in partnership with Cornell University, the Embark DNA Test tells owners what breeds make up their pets, how to prevent future possible health problems, and what features and traits their pet might have. Help us end preventable diseases in dogs and improve the lives of pets and their people through genomics.

Embark is the only dog DNA test using a research-grade DNA microarray, letting us give our customers the most accurate and comprehensive results on the market. More importantly, it allows us to do ongoing research into the genetics of dogs, which are a fantastic population for genetic discovery due to selective breeding over time. Our research focuses on mapping new traits and diseases, improving personalized veterinary medicine, and developing new breeding programs to eliminate preventable diseases in pets.

Interested in joining? We’re looking for highly motivated and driven employees who will help us stay on the cutting edge of creativity and innovation in the fast-growing consumer genetics space.

The Role

As a key resource in our Engineering group, you’ll take part in the three main missions of the team:

• Design and develop our bioinformatics pipeline. You’ll be doing production engineering of data analysis, applying our algorithms to computational genomics problems to produce the ancestry, traits, relatedness and health results our customers love.
• Scale our algorithms and analytics, from fine-tuning machine-learning algorithms to parallelizing massive compute workloads. You’ll ensure our pipeline meets performance, reproducibility, and reliability benchmarks while constantly adding new analysis and reducing our cost per dog.
• Bespoke data analysis, helping Research and Business Development explore our data from the ground up. You’ll contribute to original research, productionize new science, and generate cutting-edge results for premium partners ahead of broader release.

The Opportunity

• Lead and be accountable for your projects with the help of peers in the team, in terms of planning, designing, implementing and documenting the outcomes and findings
• Deliver clean, scalable, expressive code, and thoughtfully review the work of your teammates
• Mentor and support peers in the team in achieving their own goals
• Collaborate with the science team and the product development team, guiding them in how to retrieve or process the data and metrics that we present to our customers
• Work cross-functionally with other teams to deliver the best value not only of your field of expertise but also better understand dog genetics and dog breeding and what matters to our customers and use this as an input in your day-to-day work.

Requirements

• B.A. or M.S in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or Biomedical Engineering, with major professional experience in mentioned fields
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Excellent programming skills and a proven ability to work on a complex large-scale project
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with scientific python and/or C++ programming frameworks (we use Numpy, Scipy, Scikit Learn, Eigen to name a few)
• Cloud infrastructure experience, particularly AWS distributed computing and storage services
• Experience with relational database technologies (PostgreSQL) and beyond (key-value stores, Parquet)
• Passion for dogs and genetics

Bonus points for

• An interest in staying up-to-date on the latest developments in computational biology and big data frameworks

What we offer

• Dog-friendly office near South Station, Boston
• Perks tailored for dog lovers including subsidized dog-walking services and paw-ternity leave
• Startup perks with big-company benefits
• Competitive salaries, all-inclusive health care, and equity participation
• A flexible vacation policy along with paid maternal and paternal leave
• Fully-stocked office snack bar and regular office events
• New iMacs and MacBook Pros, or laptops running Linux
• Continuing education including attending 130k conferences

Salary range: $90-130k 

Embark Veterinary Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.