Data Scientist

• Collaborate with administrative leaders, clinicians and IT specialists
• Query large datasets from multiple systems
• Build machine learning models
• Design and implementation of pilots for validation and optimization of models in real time
• Produce technical documentation, visualizations and presentations
• Project management for complex tasks
• Completes own work independently
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

• Master’s degree with 0+ years of experience; or Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of experience

Preferred education experience and skills:

• Familiarity with a health care environment and EHR data
• Time series analysis
• 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.
• 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++)
• 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

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.