Data Scientist

Data Scientist (Remote)

We have an immediate need for contract Data Scientist to join our client, a world-class medical center. The Data Scientist will derive insights from the vast amounts of patient & environmental data available within the center’s data warehouse.

Location: Remote working Pacific Time Zone hours

This job expects to pay about $70 – 80 per hour plus benefits.

What You Will Do:
• Develop and implement algorithms on existing data warehouse records and may nominate new external data sources to be ingested to the data warehouse to strengthen analyses.
• Analyses will address a wide variety of clinical and research outcomes.
• Research and implement state-of-the-art AI algorithms, apply off-the-shelf AI and data-centric tools, and collect, store, and maintain data.
• Develop, test, and install new software applications, and enhances functionality of existing applications, for artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Design, develop, and implement artificial intelligence algorithms, and build scalable production systems focused on clinical and research outcomes
• Identify creative uses of artificial intelligence and potential artificial intelligence innovations in health care research
• Collaborate with a team of programmers and informatics experts to address emerging client needs
• Collect and manage new datasets with bearing on artificial intelligence analyses of healthcare data

What Gets You The Job:
• Bachelors Degree computer science, artificial intelligence, informatics or closely related field. Masters preferred.
• Strong experience with Python for preprocessing, data analysis, machine learning and scripting.
• Proven experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch or Keras for deep learning and complex machine learning including neural networks and advanced AI.
• Experience with Scikit-learn for classical machine learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation, summarization, etc.
• Proven ability using AWS SageMaker for end-to-end machine learning development, training, and scalable machine learning in a managed cloud environment.
• NLP (Natural Language Processing) tool and framework experience such as Hugging Face or AWS Comprehend Medical for extracting insights from clinical text data.
• Experience with XGBoost or LightGBM for gradient boosting in structured data.
• Familiarity and experience with techniques for handling outliers, such as the z-score or IQR methods.
• Experience with multiple machine learning models, beyond tree-based methods, and familiarity with handling imbalanced data problems using appropriate techniques.
• Strong grasp of model evaluation metrics, including a correct understanding of the F1 score.
• Experience with PDF to text conversion, NLP entity extraction, ML modeling.
• Experience with data mining and statistical modeling (e.g. regression modeling, clustering techniques, decision trees, etc.).
• Experience analyzing large data sets using programming languages (e.g. Python, R, SQL and/or Spark).
• Strong SQL skills. Must have the ability to write complex, highly-optimized queries across large volumes of data. Generating and visualizing data-based insights in software such as Tableau.
• Effective at communicating data-driven insights and conveying actionable recommendations to clinical and business leaders with little to no data science experience.
• Healthcare knowledge with HL7, IDC-10 Coding, FHIR, or clinical terminologies is a plus.

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