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Our teams of scientists, data engineers, and software experts deliver end-to-end solutions across data curation, management, mining, and analysis to help customers accelerate R&D. We partner long-term with blue-chip clients and emerging biotechs around the world, bringing scientific rigor, quality, and a customer-first mindset to every engagement.\nAbout the role\nAs part of the larger Service Delivery team, this role will contribute to modeling, harmonizing, and curating disease and biomarker data on behalf of our pharmaceutical clients. You will help scale the production of harmonized, AI-ready data products that include disease phenotypes and biomarkers, working within an agent-assisted harmonization framework. Within the framework, AI does much of the mechanical work and this role would contribute scientific judgment and modeling expertise drive the result. \nThe successful candidate combines deep clinical and biomarker domain knowledge, strong information modeling skills, and a genuine affinity for working with AI tools. This is a client-facing role and is expected to partner with both internal (Rancho) and external (client) stakeholders on a regular basis. \nThis role is fully remote, but we are looking for candidates in the UK or Western Europe to be client-facing.\nWhat you'll do\nExtend and maintain disease data models covering clinical manifestations, phenotypes, and biomarkers, expanding into new therapeutic areas. \nHarmonize internal and external reference data sources, mapping them to biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies; making defensible, documented decisions on ontology reuse, extension, and mapping. \nUtilize and support the evolution of an agent-assisted harmonization framework: direct AI agents through curation and mapping tasks, review and correct their output, and improve the prompts, templates, and QC that guide them. \nAuthor and version data model artifacts in LinkML, using GitHub for source control. \nRegister controlled vocabularies in enterprise terminology systems, following and refining established processes. \nDefine validation rules and quality checks for harmonized data, covering ontology term validity, required fields, cross-field consistency, and provenance completeness. \nIntegrate disease models with adjacent data domains (e.g., omics schemas) and support engineering teams in building robust pipelines from them. \nEngage scientific SMEs across disease areas to test and review model updates and ensure alignment with intended use. \nWrite guidelines and protocols that enable other teams to curate future studies consistently. \nReport progress and decisions clearly to client stakeholders and sponsors. \nQualifications\nRequired\nPhD in Life Sciences, or MS with several years of hands-on experience with biomarker or clinical data. \nStrong domain knowledge of biomarkers and the clinical manifestations of disease, including how they are measured, reported, and used in translational and clinical research. \nProven data and information modeling experience for complex biomedical domains, e.g., ER or class diagrams; 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