[Remote] Senior Data Scientist

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Norstella is a company dedicated to helping clients bring life-saving therapies to market more quickly. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to leverage data and AI/ML technologies to extract actionable insights that drive decision-making and improve patient access to therapies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product partners and others to identify new opportunities to apply AI / ML to our content and products
• Conduct research and identify AI / ML algorithms and methods to solve specific business problems
• Implement rigorous testing and evaluation of potential solutions; review indicative results and proof-of-concepts with multi-disciplinary teams as part of customer-led product development
• Deploy your solutions as production-grade microservices in collaboration with engineering and DevOps teams
• Contribute towards common data science platforms and data assets
• Stay up-to-date, constantly learning about advances in the field, and deliver periodic presentations to internal teams on these developments
• All other duties, as assigned

Skills

• Graduate degree in a STEM field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience developing AI / ML applications and data driven solutions
• Excellent knowledge of Python and core data science libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, LangChain, etc
• Experience with LLMs, e.g. foundation model APIs, prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation
• Substantial depth and breadth across state-of-the-art AI / ML techniques such as Generative AI, NLP, Deep Learning, etc
• Understanding of CS fundamentals, computational complexity, and algorithm design
• Ability to engineer and deploy well-architected software packages
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to independently own and execute a project holistically at a high level
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Deep expertise in engineering agentic AI systems
• Knowledge of the healthcare / pharma domain and experience applying AI to healthcare data
• Experience with AWS, especially ECS, Bedrock, SageMaker, serverless compute and storage
• Ability to prototype PoC webapps with familiarity across the full stack
• Expert usage of AI coding tools and workflows

Benefits

• Medical and Prescription Drug Benefits
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Dental & Vision Benefits
• Basic Life and AD&D Benefits
• 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Company Paid Short & Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Open Vacation Policy& Company Holidays
• Discretionary bonus

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