# Senior Research Scientist, Modeling & System Design

Division: Detection Start date: as soon as possible Status: full-time SecureBio employee Starting compensation: $185,000 to $210,000 Visa sponsorship available: For exceptional candidates Work location: In-person in Cambridge, MA preferred; remote possible. The role SecureBio is a nonprofit working to protect the world from catastrophic pandemics. Our Detection team is building a pathogen-agnostic early warning system using metagenomic sequencing of wastewater and human specimens. We’re seeking a quantitative researcher or epidemiologist to assess how reliably our surveillance system can detect emerging pathogens, and where to invest to improve it. You’ll connect models of infection and disease spread with evidence from our sequencing workflows. Your models will answer key strategic questions: Are wastewater or nasal swabs a more effective sampling strategy for early pandemic detection? How does sensitivity increase as we scale our number of sites? Which sites should we pick? How deeply should we sequence each sample? You’ll estimate parameters from our data, build practical models in-house, and adapt and use collaborators’ complex epidemiological models. We’re looking for so

- **Id**: 4276681
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/securebio-senior-research-scientist-modeling-system-design>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T16:43:29Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:11:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4266
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drug Discovery, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 42891
- **Name**: Securebio
- **Domain**: securebio.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/securebio>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 210000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 210000

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:11:27Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 2; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T20:47:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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