Data Scientist II
CareDx, Inc. ยท via
Backpacker Job Board
๐ฐ $108,000 - $135,000/yr
๐ Remote
Job Description:
- Develop clinically grounded, interpretable AI and analytics solutions supporting commercial, medical affairs, clinical research, and enterprise decision-making
- Translate integrated structured and unstructured data into reliable insights, actionable recommendations, and reusable analytical products
- Own analytics and AI workstreams for next-best-action and field education capabilities
- Advance literature intelligence workflows, including search, retrieval, synthesis, evaluation, and validation of AI-generated outputs
- Develop interpretable machine learning, statistical, and generative AI solutions using clinical, laboratory, commercial, and enterprise data
- Build reproducible workflows and reusable components from research prototypes to reliable applications and decision-support tools
- Lead analytics research proposals and collaborations, including cohort definition, analysis planning, modeling, interpretation, and communication of results
- Partner with clinicians, scientists, medical affairs, research teams, and business stakeholders
- Support abstracts, presentations, and research reports while applying privacy, security, validation, and documentation practices
- Contribute to forecasting, Promotion Effectiveness, and Digital Product Impact initiatives
- Perform exploratory analysis, feature engineering, model development and evaluation, sensitivity testing, and scenario analysis using Python or R and SQL
- Collaborate with data and application engineers on pipelines, version control, testing, deployment readiness, monitoring, and maintenance
- Document data lineage, assumptions, limitations, and recommendations
Requirements:
- Bachelor of Science (BS) or Master of Science (MS) degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, or a related quantitative field
- 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, advanced analytics, AI engineering, or a related role
- 3+ years of experience in healthcare, diagnostics, biotechnology, clinical research, life sciences, or another regulated environment
- Strong hands-on proficiency in Python or R, SQL, and Git-based development workflows
- Experience developing and validating predictive, descriptive, statistical, or machine learning models using real-world clinical, EHR, laboratory, research, or other complex longitudinal data
- Ability to produce audit-ready documentation covering data lineage, methods, assumptions, testing, validation, and model limitations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical, scientific, clinical, and business teams
- Preferred: experience with AI-enabled search, natural language processing, literature intelligence, retrieval-augmented generation, or document synthesis
- Preferred: experience moving analytical prototypes into user-facing or production workflows, including testing, monitoring, and ongoing support
- Preferred: familiarity with Databricks, cloud data platforms, model lifecycle management, and modern analytics application frameworks
- Preferred: experience contributing to clinical research deliverables such as protocols, abstracts, presentations, manuscripts, or analytical reports
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary and incentive compensation
- Health and welfare benefits
- Gym reimbursement program
- 401(k) savings plan match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Up to 30 days of paid leave annually for a full-time employee who donates an organ or bone marrow
- Additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units may be available