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Job Summary:

The University of Minnesota is an educational institution that offers master's and doctoral degrees in medicine, law, and engineering fields. They are seeking a Scientific Programmer/Data Scientist to join a research team focused on computational causal discovery and predictive modeling in biomedicine and health.

Responsibilities:

• Construct datasets from various data sources for research.

• Design and implement data processing and analysis infrastructure;
Ensure the integrity and security of data, code, and analytical experiments.

• Design, setup and run computational experiments to evaluate and benchmark cutting-edge machine learning algorithms.

• Design, setup and run computational experiments to execute algorithms on various types of biomedical or healthcare related data.

• Implement machine learning, statistical, data-mining, bioinformatics/clinical informatics algorithms.

• Develop and modify software and demonstrations.

• Create documentation for all software, code and experiments.

• Write or help prepare technical reports and/or publications.

• Communicate and present analytical results to customers, scientists and clinicians.

• Mentoring Junior Data Scientists.

Qualifications:

Required:

• M.A./M.S. in Computer Science/Math/Statistics/Physics/Informatics or related technical discipline with one or more years of research training in a research or technical environment

• Experience with Matlab or Python or R.

• Experience with SQL or other database technology.

• Experience writing code for complex computer programs independently. Please provide a link to samples of your code available online (Github or similar services).

• Experience with machine learning and statistical methods.

• Demonstrated/documented strong communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience working with messy real-world data.

• Experience in high-performance computing.

• Experience working independently and collaboratively in a rapidly changing scientific environment.

• Skills in data visualization.

• Research experience in statistics/data science/related fields.

• Experience publishing scientific papers in conferences/journals.

Company:

University of Minnesota is an educational institution that offers master's and doctoral degrees in medicine, law, and engineering fields. Founded in 1851, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage. University of Minnesota has a track record of offering H1B sponsor ships.

• Seniority level
  
  Entry level

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Industries Software Development

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