Data Scientist

Join the forefront of groundbreaking research at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. Our dedicated and compassionate faculty and staff are driven by a common mission: Contribute to innovative approaches in predicting, preventing, and curing diseases, shaping the future of medicine through cutting-edge research.

The Data Scientist in this role will query and analyze large complex datasets to discover insights to apply to an evolving cancer care delivery environment. The Data Scientist will use data mining, statistics and machine learning to understand relationships and patterns in data, build predictive models and propose actionable solutions. 

As a successful candidate, you will:

·         Collaborate with administrative leaders, clinicians and IT specialists

·         Query large datasets from multiple systems

·         Build machine learning models

·         Design and implementation of pilots for validation and optimization of models in real time

·         Produce technical documentation, visualizations and presentations

·         Project management for complex tasks

·         Completes own work independently

Qualifications:

·         Master’s degree with 0+ years of experience or Bachelors degree with 3+ years of experience

·         Experience with data analytics within industry or academic environment, developing and successfully implementing statistical and machine learning models for data mining, classification, prediction and clustering

·         Experience with relational databases and SQL queries.

·         Must be knowledgeable in at least one scientific computing language such as Python (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn, genism, seaborn, tensorflow) or R (e.g. caret, dplyr, ggplot2)

·         Familiarity and experience with Machine learning (RandomForest, XGBoost/ LightGBM, etc.) and deep learning (CNN, RNN, LSTM, etc.) techniques

·         Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Python, Java, C/C++)

·         Ability to work independently and use creative approaches to problem- solving

·         Capable of turning questions into testable hypotheses, extracting data from complex databases, creating and evaluating statistical models

·         Experience in data visualization and ability to communicate results to a non-technical audience

·         Experience in completing end to end projects with minimal to no supervision

·         Experience in being a part of big projects with many internal and external teams involved

·         Experience managing collaborative data science projects

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