About this role
Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.
Job Description
Our team is at the forefront of applying Senior Data Engineer to interpret and process complex chemical data, specifically chromatograms and environmental testing results. We are seeking a skilled Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the robust data pipelines and infrastructure necessary to support our ML model training, deployment, and analysis workflows. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in data engineering, understands the unique challenges of scientific data, and is eager to work closely with both Machine Learning Engineers and Chemists.
Key Responsibilities include data pipeline development to design, construct, and manage scalable and reliable ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, clean, transform, and store raw chemistry data such as CSV, JSON, and proprietary instrument formats; data modeling and warehousing to develop optimized data models and manage a data warehouse or data lake to support fast querying and ML feature engineering on complex datasets including time-series and spectral data from chromatograms; ML infrastructure collaboration to containerize and deploy ML models and build automated model retraining and monitoring pipelines; data quality and governance to implement robust data quality checks, validation, and monitoring to ensure integrity and reproducibility of chemical experiment data used for ML; and tooling to develop internal tools and APIs to facilitate data access for ML engineers and provide standardized interfaces for data submission from chemistry lab systems.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). Required experience includes expert-level proficiency in Python with commonly used data science and engineering libraries; hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP, with a preference for Azure) including services related to computing, storage, and serverless functions; data orchestration experience with tools such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster; strong SQL knowledge and experience with relational and NoSQL databases; proficiency with Git and standard DevOps practices; and experience with scientific data.
Experience
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Past experience handling and processing complex, large-volume scientific data (such as mass spectrometry, chromatography, LIMS/ELN integration) is required. Familiarity with MLOps platforms and tools such as Azure ML Studio, MLflow, Kubeflow, or SageMaker is desirable. A basic understanding of analytical chemistry concepts, including chromatography fundamentals and relevant file formats, is preferred. Authorization to work in the United States without restriction or sponsorship and professional working proficiency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) are required. Additional general skills include strong problem-solving abilities and excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to bridge technical infrastructure, data science models, and chemical applications.
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Additional Information
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As a Eurofins employee, you will become part of a company recognized as a great place to work. We offer full-time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, life and disability insurance, a 401(k) with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, and dental and vision options. We support your development and value diversity and inclusion, and Eurofins is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to carbon neutrality and sustainable initiatives. Find out more on our career page.
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Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/