Portal Stargaze : Fractional Engineer
Portal Stargaze - Fractional Engineer - Part time, 10-20 hours/week, $100-$150/hr (potentially full-time later) - Remote
Portal Innovations invests in ecosystems to support life sciences entrepreneurs in different geographies in the US. We use Stargaze, our AI-toolkit for identifying and sourcing innovation to make strategic decisions around:
Finding rising star researchers to support
Understanding where science is headed
Forming high-impact relationships with researchers, founders, investors, and pharmaceutical companies
As we continue to build out this "frontend for biotech innovation", we need a seasoned engineer to help us accelerate our roadmap for 2025.
Here's a snapshot of what you'll work on with me:
Build ETL pipelines (bringing in data around publications, patents, etc.). We've made good progress here, but need someone who can get it over the finish line.
Build an internal data infrastructure that allows us to iterate on data science experiments to create new Innovation Biomarkers
Work with our team to evaluate and benchmark different models and pipelines to classify innovators, resolve entities across datasets, generate high quality matches for innovation search, and more
Occasionally work across the stack (React / Next, Python, Postgres) if you're interested in branching out
You're a great fit if you:
Have experience with Python, Postgres, and general ETL pipelines / infrastructure (AWS, Modal, Airflow)
Take your craft seriously and own your work
Aren't afraid of getting into the weeds
Work well asynchronously but appreciate the occasional meeting to iron out any blockers
Bonus points if you:
Enjoy reading about machine learning & data science or have trained and deployed models in the past
Have an interest in the biotech innovation space
Drop me a note at ashish.uppala@portalinnovations.com if you're interested, or know anyone that'd be a good fit 😃