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A successful candidate will not only exemplify these skills but also be passionate about improving the lives of cancer patients, grounded and gritty, and an enthusiastic teacher.\nThe Senior Data Scientist will support clinical correlation data modeling, which includes working with data engineers to assess data quality of incoming assay and clinical data, developing bootstraps across different assay versions, engineering features to feed modeling, evaluating different types of modeling approaches, training unsupervised and supervised data models and reporting performance, assimilating, summarizing, and visualizing results, and presenting results to Commercial, RD and Scientific Communications stakeholders.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nLead complex, high-visibility data science projects from problem definition through delivery, implementation, ongoing refinement.\nDevelop and apply advanced statistical, machine learning, and computational methods to biological, experimental, clinical, product, and operational datasets.\nEstablish robust, reproducible, and maintainable analytical pipelines, models, and tools suitable for broader team use.\nProvide input to biomedical research scientist presentations and publications regarding rigorous and appropriate analytic approaches.\nLead complex data presentation to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nProvide technical leadership through code review, methodological guidance, and best-practice development.\nMentor junior and mid-level data scientists, supporting their technical growth, project execution, and decision-making.\nEducation/Experience/Skills\nMaster’s (+5 years experience) or PhD (+2 years experience) in Data Science, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering or related field\nStrong background in quantitative analysis and statistics\n1-3 years experience analyzing biomedical datasets is preferred\nExperience programming in Python is preferred\nKnowledge of machine learning, data science, data mining, data querying, statistics, signal processing, image processing, etc.\nExperience explaining complex data methodologies to non-technical stakeholders\nFamiliarity with software development life cycle and best practices\nDetail-oriented with strong organizational skills\nWe offer our employees competitive compensation and benefits, including paid time off, health insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan, and stock options.\nDISCLAIMER\nThe preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. 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