Data Scientist

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. 

This is a Fully Remote Opportunity within the United States

As a successful candidate, you will

City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution with over 6000 employees, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and guided by a compassionate, patient-centered philosophy.

Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Duarte, California, City of Hope is a remarkable non-profit institution, where compassion and advanced care go hand-in-hand with excellence in clinical and scientific research.  City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers that develops and institutes standards of care for cancer treatment.

The Data Scientist in this role will query and analyze large complex datasets to discover insights to apply to an evolving cancer care delivery environment. The Data Scientist will use data mining, statistics and machine learning to understand relationships and patterns in data, build predictive models and propose actionable solutions. The Data Scientist will support drug discovery and biotherapeutics efforts by applying advanced molecular simulation and modeling techniques to bridge the gap between chemical interactions and clinical outcomes.  The Data Scientist will perform quantitative modeling of complex chemical and biological systems, translating scientific data into reliable predictive models, and building machine-learning pipelines that can be validated and adapted as project priorities evolve.

• 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.

Your qualifications should include

• Master’s degree in a quantitative biology or chemistry field with 0+ years of experience; or Bachelor’s degree with 3+ years of experience with knowledge in mathematical and computational modeling of molecules, analysis of technical datasets, model validation, machine-learning in life-science discovery workflows, and biochemical modeling and screening or optimization.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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