Field Application Scientist, Data Science, QDI

QIAGEN•Boston, MA

1d•$100,000 - $137,000•Remote

About The Position

The Field Application Scientist works with scientists to understand their data science application needs and show how QIAGEN Digital Insights products and services—including Discovery KB, OmicSoft Lands APIs, Knowledge Graphs, MCP Server, and AI Agents—can address them. The role involves presenting customer-focused demonstrations, delivering custom training, and demonstrating the applications and value of QIAGEN Digital Insights data science solutions in scientific research contexts. The position serves as a customer advocate and collaborates internally with sales, services, marketing, customer support, and R&D. It is field-based, performed from a personal home office, and includes local and regional travel. The preferred location is within driving distance of Boston/Cambridge, though other U.S. locations may be considered for candidates willing to travel 30–60% of the time.

Requirements

Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated public-speaking experience.
Ability to understand and communicate complex computational concepts, applications, and algorithms to biologists who are not computer-savvy.
Proactive self-starter able to manage multiple tasks in a results-oriented commercial environment and meet strict deadlines.
Ability to multitask across a variety of assignments and a proven ability to meet strict deadlines.
Willingness to travel 30–60% of the time.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree, PhD, or equivalent experience in data science, bioinformatics, biology, molecular biology, or a genetics-related field.
Experience with Discovery KB (previously Biomedical KB), Knowledge Graphs, MCP Server, AI Agents, SQL, Python, OmicSoft, and/or Ingenuity Pathway Analysis.
Home-office location within driving distance of Boston/Cambridge.

Responsibilities

Use QIAGEN data science solutions, including Discovery KB, Knowledge Graphs, OmicSoft Lands APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers, to accelerate discovery and automate analysis workflows.
Engage in scientific discussions with customers and cultivate relationships.
Use scientific knowledge to identify customer challenges and connect them with QIAGEN biological data analysis and interpretation products and services.
Deliver scientific workshops based on defined case studies to demonstrate the value and effectiveness of software applications in a customer's research context.
Give scientific presentations and pre-sales product demonstrations tailored to potential customers' research fields and applications.
Analyze customer data for presentations or public data for case studies.
Train and support new customers, including delivering product-training seminars.
Understand customer product requirements and communicate them to marketing and engineering teams for consideration in future product development.
Collaborate with Sales to develop and nurture key-account technical relationships and support Marketing activities at targeted events.