We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the on-site point of contact for preclinical data management activities while operating under the direction of a remote platform team.
- Collect, map, and transform heterogeneous preclinical data, including in vitro and in vivo bench/lab-generated data, from multiple internal systems into standardized and usable formats.
- Support the development and implementation of data standards and taxonomies where no existing standards currently exist.
- Perform data quality reviews, data cleaning, validation, and accuracy checks using SQL and Python.
- Contribute to the loading of validated and standardized data into a central data lake.
- Provide functional, ticket-based user support for scientists using internal preclinical research tools.
- Troubleshoot data-loading and data-handling issues across multiple preclinical systems.
- Support functional administration activities, including:
- Access rights management
- List-of-values (LOV) management
- Functional documentation, such as methods of procedure (MOPs)
- Business needs refinement
- Support application testing and validation activities, including:
- Test case development
- Test execution
- Validation documentation
- Set up or support business intelligence (BI) extracts, dashboards, and reports.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 to 6 years of experience working directly with preclinical or bench/lab-generated research data.
- Ability to work a minimum of 3 days on-site in Boston, MA.
- Strong understanding of bench science and how scientific experiments generate data, including familiarity with outputs from techniques such as chromatography and Western blotting.
- Demonstrated experience working with data that lacks established standards or formats, with the ability to create structure and standards from the ground up.
- Working proficiency in SQL and basic Python for data querying, cleaning, validation, and quality review.
- Experience providing end-user support and troubleshooting for scientific software applications or data systems.
- Ability to work independently with remote management and limited local technical support.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exposure to preclinical research domains such as pharmacology, toxicology, DMPK, or omics.
- Familiarity with LIMS, ELN, or SDMS platforms.
- Knowledge of data governance concepts, including Master Data Management (MDM), FAIR principles, and ALCOA+ data integrity practices.
- Experience working as an embedded consultant or vendor within a client team.
Salary Range: $90,000 - $140,000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- 5 to 6 years working directly with preclinical or bench/lab-generated research data
- Work a minimum of 3 days on-site in Boston, MA
- Strong understanding of bench science and familiarity with outputs like chromatography and Western blotting
- Experience creating structure and standards for heterogeneous data lacking established formats
- Working proficiency in SQL for querying, cleaning, validation, and quality review
- Basic Python for data querying, cleaning, validation, and quality review
- Experience providing end-user support and troubleshooting for scientific software applications or data systems
- Ability to work independently with remote management and limited local technical support
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Exposure to pharmacology, toxicology, DMPK, or omics
- Familiarity with LIMS, ELN, or SDMS platforms
- Knowledge of data governance concepts including MDM, FAIR principles, and ALCOA+ data integrity
- Experience working as an embedded consultant or vendor within a client team
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
