[Hiring] Data Scientist @City of Hope

Role Description

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Focus on querying and analyzing large, complex datasets to generate insights that inform cancer research and care delivery.
• Apply data mining, statistical analysis, and machine/deep learning techniques to uncover patterns, develop predictive models, and translate findings into actionable solutions.
• Collaborate with administrative leaders, clinicians, and IT specialists.
• Query large datasets from multiple systems.
• Build machine learning models.
• Design and implement pilots for validation and optimization of models in real time.
• Produce technical documentation, visualizations, and presentations.
• Manage projects for complex tasks.
• Complete own work independently.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree with 0+ years of experience; or Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Preferred:
  • Familiarity with a health care environment and EHR data.
  • Familiarity with multimodal data such as genomics and medical images.
  • Background in deep neural networks and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • Familiarity with Cloud services platforms like Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience with Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), including RAG, fine-tuning, embedding models, prompt engineering, and integration into agentic data science workflows.
  • Proficiency with version control systems (Git) and collaborative development workflows.
  • Awareness of the most recent trends and developments in the Data Science / Machine Learning fields.
  • 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.
  • Proficient in Python and related data and ML packages.
  • Proficient in standard data science workflows, including training, evaluating/testing, and deploying machine learning and deep learning models.
  • Familiarity with LLM frameworks and packages such as LangChain, LangGraph, for building advanced AI solutions.
  • Ability to work independently and use creative approaches to problem-solving.
  • 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.

Company Description

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

This is a Fully Remote Opportunity within the United States.