💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Research Scientist, Target Identification & Validation Translational Immunology

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Scorpion Therapeutics
📍 washington dc, washington dc, United-States
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Location
washington dc, United-States
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Posted
June 19, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Key Duties And Responsibilities Design, execute, and interpret experiments to identify and validate novel therapeutic targets relevant to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases Develop and optimize disease‐relevant in vitro and ex vivo assay systems using primary human immune cells and patient‐derived samples to evaluate target biology and therapeutic potential Integrate multi‐dimensional datasets including genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional data to generate and refine target hypotheses Collaborate with data and computational sciences colleagues to leverage large‐scale human datasets for target discovery and prioritization Contribute to the design and execution of in vivo studies to assess target relevance and therapeutic mechanisms in preclinical models Present scientific findings and strategic recommendations to cross‐functional project teams, senior leadership, and external collaborators with clarity and scientific rigor Evaluate and implement emerging technologies...