Senior Data Engineer

About Formation Bio

Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharma company differentiated by radically more efficient drug development.

Advancements in AI and drug discovery are creating more candidate drugs than the industry can progress because of the high cost and time of clinical trials. Recognizing that this development bottleneck may ultimately limit the number of new medicines that can reach patients, Formation Bio, founded in 2016 as TrialSpark Inc., has built technology platforms, processes, and capabilities to accelerate all aspects of drug development and clinical trials. Formation Bio partners, acquires, or in-licenses drugs from pharma companies, research organizations, and biotechs to develop programs past clinical proof of concept and beyond, ultimately helping to bring new medicines to patients. The company is backed by investors across pharma and tech, including a16z, Sequoia, Sanofi, Thrive Capital, Sam Altman, John Doerr, Spark Capital, SV Angel Growth, and others.

You can read more at the following links :

• Our Vision for AI in Pharma
• Our Current Drug Portfolio
• Our Technology & Platform

At Formation Bio, our values are the driving force behind our mission to revolutionize the pharma industry. Every team and individual at the company shares these same values, and every team and individual plays a key part in our mission to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

About the Position

As a Senior Data Engineer at Formation Bio, you will focus on building the semantic layer that makes diverse data pillars interoperable, consistent, and actionable. You’ll work across healthcare (EHR, claims, real-world data), commercial / pharma (pricing, formulary, market data), biomedical (scientific and trial data), and finance (operational and business datasets) to design models that unify disparate sources into a common language for analytics, decision-making, and AI applications.

While ingestion pipelines are part of the work, your primary responsibility will be transforming both structured and unstructured data into scalable, ontology-driven data models that teams can trust and reuse. This includes everything from traditional relational datasets to text-heavy unstructured sources that feed NLP, embeddings, and semantic search.

This role requires partnering closely with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to ensure every data pillar is represented in a robust semantic foundation that supports today’s needs and tomorrow’s AI-native platforms.

Responsibilities

About You

Required Experience :

Preferred Experience (Valued but Not Required) :

Key Attributes :

Formation Bio is prioritizing hiring in key hubs, primarily the New York City and Boston metro areas, with additional growth in the Research Triangle (NC) and San Francisco Bay Area. Please only apply if you reside in these locations or are willing to relocate.

Compensation :

The target salary range for this role is : $180,000 - $230,000.

Salary ranges are informed by a number of factors including geographic location. The range provided includes base salary only. In addition to base salary, we offer equity, comprehensive benefits, generous perks, hybrid flexibility, and more. If this range doesn't match your expectations, please still apply because we may have something else for you.

You will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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