Zifo

Overview

Zifo provides scientific informatics, consulting, data, and AI services. The company works across research, development, manufacturing, and clinical domains. Services include scientific informatics, lab informatics, clinical biometrics, regulatory compliance including computer system validation, and genome informatics. Zifo supports digitalization through product lifecycle management, validation and compliance, data science, semantics, product development, and research. They also assist with drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing quality control, and genomics functions. Zifo serves various industries, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, chemicals, food and beverage, agricultural technology, oil and gas, fast-moving consumer goods, and diagnostic laboratories. Their customer base includes 7 of the Top 10 global biopharma companies and 18 of the Top 20 biopharma companies.

Culture

Zifo operates with a "no doors" policy for accessibility and interaction. The company's culture is described as employee-built and focused on learning and teamwork. Leadership interaction is emphasized, as is integrity.

• Employees debate and interact.
• A culture of learning and listening is present.

Technology and Engineering Work

Zifo's engineering work involves building data infrastructure for clinical trial design platforms, utilizing Python for ingestion pipelines and data serving APIs. Data models are designed in Amazon Aurora and GraphDB. The company develops embedding and vectorization pipelines for RAG-based retrieval in LangGraph agentic workflows. ETL/ELT workflows transform unstructured clinical content. There is a focus on data quality validation for clinical data and data lineage tracking for regulatory traceability of AI-generated recommendations. Technical roles require experience with Angular, TypeScript, WebSockets for real-time UIs, Python and FastAPI, Pydantic-style contracts, SQLAlchemy/ORM, relational data modeling with PostgreSQL, AWS services (Aurora PostgreSQL, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS/SNS, IAM), containers (EKS/Kubernetes), CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code. Engineering quality practices include unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests, code reviews, static analysis with SonarQube, and secure dependency management. The company also works with manufacturing informatics, MES, and digital manufacturing platforms like Siemens Opcenter, Rockwell FactoryTalk/PharmaSuite, Körber Werum PAS-X, Emerson Syncade, MasterControl, SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP ERP, and Oracle Manufacturing.

Why Work Here

Several roles are explicitly listed as remote-work eligible in the United States, including for Senior Data Engineer, Technical Lead - Angular & Python Product Engineering, Senior Program Manager - Pharma R&D Digital Transformation, Scientific Lab Systems Support Consultant, Head of Manufacturing Informatics, CQV Practice Lead - Business Development & Delivery, Scientific Change Management Consultant, and Associate Scientific Strategy Consultant. The company's global presence includes offices in the US, UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, China, Canada, Singapore, and India. A specific salary range of 110000-125000 USD annually is provided for the Scientific Change Management Consultant role.

Benefits and Perks

Zifo offers a compensation package that includes accrued vacation, medical, dental, vision, 401k with company matching, life insurance, and flexible spending accounts.