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.

A Data Scientist role is available in the Division of Clinical Cancer Genomics under Dr. Stacy Gray.  In this role you will query and analyze large complex datasets to discover insights to apply to an evolving cancer care delivery environment.  You will use data mining, statistics and machine learning to understand relationships and patterns in data, build predictive models and propose actionable solutions. 

For more information on Dr. Gray, please visit here. 

As a successful candidate, you will:

·         Collaborate with administrative leaders, clinicians and IT specialists

·         Build machine learning models

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

·         Produce technical documentation, visualizations and presentations

Qualifications

Your qualifications should include:

·         Masters degree with 0+ years of experience or a 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++)

·         Experience within a health care environment and HER, genomics and/or medical imaging data is preferred

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