Remote Senior Data Scientist

Basic education, experience and skills required for consideration:

• PhD degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics, or fields related to data science with 0+ years of experience as a data scientist, Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience; or Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience
• Must be knowledgeable in at least one scientific computing language such as Python (e.g. pandas, scikit-learn, genism, seaborn, tensorflow), R (e.g. caret, dplyr, ggplot2), and Matlab
• Solid experience in 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++) 
• 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
• Experience mentoring or leading teams of data scientists
• Strong track record of data science publications, or extensive experience in developing production grade models and managing them in production

Preferred education experience and skills:

• Familiarity with a health care environment and EHR data 
• Familiarity with genomics and medical imaging data
• Time series analysis
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)  
• Cloud services platforms like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Awareness of the most recent trends and developments in the Data Science / Machine Learning fields

Additional Information:

• We currently have TWO Opening for this Role. 
• To protect the health of patients and staff and to comply with new State of California mandates, City of Hope staff are required to show proof of full vaccination by September 30, 2021.  Compliance is a condition of employment.   

City of Hope is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.