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# Staff Data Scientist, Machine Learning

- **Company:** Valo Health
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Unit Testing, Big Data, Code Review, Collaborative Software, Continuous Integration, Data Reduction, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Python (Programming Language), Logistic Regression, Machine Learning, SciPy, Workflow Management Systems, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Random Forest, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Electronic Medical Records, Git, Spark Mllib, Containerization, Scikit Learn, Dask, Machine Learning Operations, Feature Extraction, Software Version Control, Recurrent Neural Networks, Docker, Unsupervised Learning
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_c8b1aa49289305674be2f43b5c651641

## About the Role

* Degree in a quantitative field with the following years of post-degree experience or equivalent oBS: 7+; MS: 5+; PhD: 3+
 * Broad experience in ML including random forest, logistic regression, dimensionality reduction, clustering, metrics, model selection, features election, and explainability (3+ years required).
 * Demonstrated experience implementing and applying deep learning approaches such as representation learning, sequence models, transformers, and self-supervised learning on high dimensional or multimodal data (2+ years required).
 * Proficient in Python (3+ years required) and experience with ML, deep learning, and data science packages (e.g., scikit-learn, pytorch, stats models, scipy, MLlib).
 * Experience with collaborative software development using source control). management (e.g., git, unit testing, code review, CI/CD) (2+ years required)
 * Experience with MLops methodology such as workflow orchestration (e.g.,Airflow, Prefect), experiment tracking (e.g., MLflow), containerization (e.g.,Docker), and reproducible research (1+ years required).
 * Experience with ML on electronic health records (1+ years required).
 * Experience with large-scale data analytics engines (e.g., Spark or Dask) and working in cloud environments (e.g., AWS).
 * Experience with statistical methods such as hypothesis testing, longitudinal modeling, and time to event analysis.
 * Strong work ethic with a bias for execution and an ability to manage multiple priorities, ambiguity, and tight timelines.
 * Ability to work effectively in teams or independently.
 * Experience with omics data is a plus.
 * Familiarity with the drug discovery and development process is a plus.

## Description

* Perform hands-on exploratory and defined analysis and modeling of high-dimensional longitudinal data to generate fit-for-purpose evidence for decision making for multiple projects.
 * Design and implement innovative ML approaches leveraging Valo's proprietary platform (data assets and data science packages) as well as newly published methods.
 * Contribute to the design and implementation of robust, automated pipelines leveraging deep learning and classical ML on high dimensional electronic health records and omics data to solve scientific problems.
 * Develop well-designed, tested, and documented software packages.
 * Contribute to planning, execution, interpretation, and communication of results.
 * Collaborate with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to derive user requirements, maintain alignment, and ensure the relevance and impact of models, analyses, and pipelines.
 * Be an active team member in code, design, and analysis review.