{"id":4083924,"url":"https://alion.io/job/scalence-remote-data-scientist-senior","title":"[Remote] Data Scientist - Senior","company":{"id":3809279,"name":"Scalence","domain":"scalence.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/scalence","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"staffing","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":67,"max":80,"currency":"USD","period":"hour","gross":null,"usd_annual":160000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Chain-of-Thought","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"Explainable AI","optional":false},{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Graph","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"MLFlow","optional":false},{"name":"NER","optional":false},{"name":"NLP","optional":false},{"name":"Pandas","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"pySpark","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"Scikit-learn","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Spark","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T18:20:14Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T18:20:14Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The hiring company is confidential. The Senior Data Scientist will develop and operationalize AI-powered solutions for veterinary health care, including clinical decision support, disease risk modeling, and automated interpretation of diagnostic reports. The role applies machine learning, NLP, and generative AI to clinical data and partners with veterinary experts and data engineers to build scalable, explainable workflows.\n\nResponsibilities\nDesign, prototype, and operationalize AI models using Python, Databricks, and MLflow for veterinary healthcare applications\nApply machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to structured and unstructured clinical data, including EMR records, diagnostic imaging, and laboratory/pathology results\nDevelop predictive models for disease risk stratification, prognosis, and treatment outcome prediction\nCollaborate with veterinary subject matter experts to translate domain questions into reproducible data science workflows\nDevelop explainable AI models to support clinical decision-making and trust in automated recommendations\nContribute to the creation of quality evaluation frameworks for AI-driven tools\nPartner with data engineers to implement scalable data ingestion and processing systems on Databricks\nUtilize Claude Code for AI coding assistance\nApply prompt engineering guidelines, strategies, and optimization techniques to improve generative model outputs\nApply retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and related techniques—such as context engineering, embedding-based search, and hybrid knowledge reasoning\nParticipate in agile development cycles, maintaining thorough technical documentation and experiment traceability\nUse best practices for version control using Git\n\nSkills\nStrong collaboration, communication, and documentation skills\nProven experience working with large, distributed datasets\nExperience with data exploration, statistical analyses, and visualizations\nStrong statistical foundation with broad knowledge of deterministic and probabilistic statistical methods\nStrong background in supervised/unsupervised machine learning, or natural language processing (NLP)\nExperience with advanced Named Entity Recognition (NER) techniques to extract structured entities from text data\nDemonstrated mastery of prompt engineering methods—prompt engineering, fine-tuning, self-reflection, chain-of-thought reasoning, and declarative prompting\nExperience with Databricks platform\nStrong software development skills\nExperience using Git for version control in a collaborative team environment, including branching, pull requests, and code review\nBachelor's in Data Science, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, or a related quantitative field\n5+ years of experience developing ML/AI solutions in Python (Pandas, PySpark, scikit-learn, MLflow)\nTechnically Experienced\nDesigns and builds new AI models utilizing off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms and tools\nWorks efficiently and independently along the whole data science pipeline – acquisition, exploration, cleaning, modeling and evaluation\nExperience with various data structures and common methods in data transformation\nAbility to create new tools and packages for data science use in statistical/data science programming environments such as Python/Pandas/PySpark\nAbility to create new complex SQL data queries\nFocused Experience with doing data sourcing, manipulation, analysis and modeling\nThink Big – demonstrates strategic mindset and cultivates innovation\nEnsures Impact – talented at planning and driving results\nWorks Across Organization – Skilled capabilities in building informal and formal networks, with strong persuasion skills\nBrings People with you – Capable of developing talent to meet both their career and organizational goals\nSome experience with Machine learning (supervised and unsupervised) modeling\nExperience with using Claude Code for coding assistance\nHands-on experience developing and orchestrating AI agents or agentic workflows using LLM frameworks\nClassification – decision trees, logistic regression, random forest, SVM, neural networks\nFamiliarity with healthcare or life sciences datasets — electronic medical records (EMR), radiology, pathology, or epidemiological data preferred\nKnowledge of veterinary health informatics, disease taxonomy, or ontology-based data integration\nExperience with knowledge graph, semantic web or ontology development techniques\n\nBenefits\nRemote (within U.S.)\n\nCompany Overview\nIn today’s dynamic and competitive market, success hinges on mastering three key areas: Data Intelligence, Business Resilience, and Digital Experience. It was founded in undefined, and is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://scalence.com.\n\nCompany H1B Sponsorship\nScalence L.L.C. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2026. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5035,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T18:20:15Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 10","filings_12m":10,"filings_prev_12m":0,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":117500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-11T07:38:50+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T20:03:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":160000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/scalence-remote-data-scientist-senior","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/scalence-remote-data-scientist-senior.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T20:03:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":39099,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3809279},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3809279"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fscalence-remote-data-scientist-senior"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fscalence-remote-data-scientist-senior"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fscalence-remote-data-scientist-senior"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/scalence-remote-data-scientist-senior\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fscalence-remote-data-scientist-senior"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4083924}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"scalence.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4083924},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}