Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence (A.I.) that illuminates nature to restore human health. Brightseed’s proprietary A.I., Forager®, accelerates bioactive discovery, biological validation and ingredient formulation from years to months, rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Through Forager® and clinical evaluation, Brightseed partners with organizations across the consumer health continuum to offer insight into the world of bioactives and health solutions.
ABOUT BRIGHTSEED
Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence (A.I.) that illuminates nature to restore human health. Brightseed’s proprietary A.I., Forager®, accelerates bioactive discovery, biological validation and ingredient formulation from years to months, rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Through Forager® and clinical evaluation, Brightseed partners with organizations across the consumer health continuum to offer insight into the world of bioactives and health solutions. Visit www.brightseedbio.com to learn more.
ABOUT BIOACTIVES
Bioactives are small molecule compounds produced by plants, fungi, and microbes that grow in and adapt to environments that present a wide range of challenges to their survival. Bioactives also benefit the health of humans – they are the enlivening caffeine in tea, the powerful antioxidant lycopene in tomatoes or curcumin in turmeric, and they inform active ingredients in medicines like Taxol, aspirin and Metformin, the latter a first-line treatment for Type 2 diabetes derived from the French lilac flower. Science has long known that bioactives are critical to human health, yet the vast majority remain unknown and uncharted – often referred to as the “dark matter” of nutrition. Brightseed’s A.I., Forager®, discovers bioactives in nature and maps them to human health outcomes at a rate and accuracy that was previously impossible.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You will have a passion for critically evaluating scientific literature and understanding the molecular basis of health and disease. You will have demonstrated experience in connecting information across science disciplines and contributing beyond your technical area of expertise. You will understand the complexity of combining biological data from heterogeneous sources, balancing the identification of broad themes and extraction of relevant details from published data, and have experience in addressing some of these issues in scientific work. You are excited to be an integral member of a group of highly motivated scientists and to effectively communicate scientific findings across a multidisciplinary team in a fast-paced environment.
THE BENEFITS YOU’LL ENJOY
As a lab based company, where in person collaboration is key to drive innovation, we encourage all team members to be in our office most days each week. However we appreciate and honor the need and desire for flexibility and have implemented a hybrid working model. We have a fully stocked healthy kitchen, a gym onsite, plenty of free parking, weekly team events and a state-of-the-art lab and office.
We offer a competitive total rewards package with team-first benefits programs for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, unlimited paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance programs, 401(k) plan, a mental health platform, employee discounts, payroll credits for cell phone and commuter costs and a paid parental leave program.
JOIN US, AND BE YOU
We are committed to making transformative discoveries with a team-first mentality. Successful team members are truth-seeking and trusting, with the tenacity required to trail blaze in uncharted territory. We are a collaborative team that actively seeks input and values differing perspectives. And we produce tangible results, holding ourselves accountable in the process.
We are also committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of connectedness and inclusion. We grow and learn together, respecting professional and personal experiences, areas of expertise, and types of self expression.
In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that each one of us brings in terms of education, opinions, culture, color, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, religion, different abilities, sexual orientation and beliefs.
THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKE
Design, maintain, and refine biological curation protocols as new developments in the literature are encountered. This includes development of bio-ontology at many levels of granularity from overall health area down to the mode of action. Maintain, extend and deepen Brightseed’s data coverage across a range of human health conditions, acting as the primary in-house expert on previous, current and emerging areas of research. Review, compile, critically analyze and organize molecular/biological data related to human health from primary biomedical data sources including academic literature, clinical trial databases and related scientific knowledge bases. THE EXPERIENCE YOU WILL NEED
Normally requires a PhD in a scientific discipline, may include post-doctoral experience Master’s with 2+ years of bio curation experienceBS with 5+ years experienceAbility to summarize and organize previously unstructured biological knowledgeA passion for reading and analyzing scientific literatureSelf-starter, able to work independentlyDESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Prior biocuration experience a strong plusSkills in the use of common data collation or Extract-Transform-Load software, programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, pandas, R) a plusWorking experience in industry a plusAbility to understand scientific literature, experimental procedures and their limitations, and current needs of the research communityExperience constructing or maintaining a controlled vocabularyExperiences using scripts or programming languages a plusStrong ability to communicate scientific data across diverse teams