Job Description - Data Scientist Faculty (230001OB)
Description
The Faculty Data Scientist will be an assistant or associate professor level position depending on current rank and experience. The Data Scientist will collaborate with clinical and biomedical researchers to identify data science research questions in clinical and translational research, as well as contribute to manuscript writing for results publication. The Data Scientist will have extensive training and experience in each of the above research steps and will serve as the subject matter expert in the development of high-quality code implementing models, algorithms, APIs and visualization.
The Faculty Data Scientist will have a broad understanding of biomedicine and excellent communication skills to effectively understand and communicate with investigators. Finally, they must possess good organizational and time management skills to manage simultaneous and competing demands from several supported projects.
Qualifications
Minimum Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
3 years in each of these areas: Data Engineering, Knowledge Engineering, Data Analysis, and Scientific Publication (Required)
3 years of Very Large Database design and analysis experience, Big Data platform and Machine Learning development, Grant Development (Preferred)
Functional Accountabilities
Conduct of Research
- Consistently demonstrate adherence to the standards for the responsible conduct of research.
- Maintain confidentiality of data as required.
- Plan, conduct, and manage research and/or research intervention projects within the federal and institutional regulations and policies in collaboration with a principal investigator.
- Responsible for appropriate use of research funds and resources.
Data Science Research and Service
- Provide data engineering support from front-end phases of the data life cycle.
- Improve integrated information retrieval environment by building large-scale data-intensive system frameworks and seamless federation of heterogeneous data sources.
- Support infrastructure design, data management, and supporting architectures, dynamic resource allocation and scheduling, design of hybrid cloud architectures, mobile cloud computing, and collaborative methods for cloud federations, big data, and AI platforms.
- Provide knowledge engineering service for human-machine interaction to understand and interpret data and analytical results, data representation and curation, visualization of data and data products, and communication of key findings for human decision making and policy formation.
Computer Science Technology
- Big data and cloud computing, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and related technologies, as well as Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, etc.
- Application development with Linux containers and container orchestration systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Working with RESTful APIs and deploying and maintaining web services.
- Database architecture with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle) and other modern types of databases: graph, key-value, and document data stores (e.g., Neo4j, HDFS, MongoDB).
- Writing code in applied academic or professional projects using one or more of the following languages: R, Python, Scala, Java is required.
Contribution to the Profession
- Participate in peer reviews for journals and review sections.
- Participate in Data and Safety Monitoring Boards or other oversight committees as the data scientist member.
- Be a member of professional associations and, when appropriate, contribute expertise and effort to associations.
Teaching
- Mentor graduate/post-doctoral students.
- Participate in educational programs and teaching assignments.
Organizational Accountabilities
- Teamwork/Communication
- Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
- Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
- Safety
Primary Location: District of Columbia-Washington
Work Locations: CN Hospital (Main Campus), 111 Michigan Avenue, Washington, 20010
Job: Research Faculty / Postdoc
Organization: Ctr Neuroscience & Behav Med
Position Status: R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time
Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.
Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees, and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
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