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Genospace is looking for a talented and enthusiastic team-player to help deliver powerful biomedical data and insights through our platforms.

As the leading provider of information technology services in molecular medicine, our software is used by clinicians and researchers all over the country to improve patient care. We serve research, clinical development, and clinical care customers who work with biomedical data. Many of the most advanced precision medicine organizations are powered by Genospace.

What You’ll Do

Genospace is seeking a Data Scientist to help deliver key insights and drive decision-making from a high volume and wide range of patient health data sources. The Data Scientist’s primary focus will be applying machine learning and statistical techniques to build high quality prediction systems, configurable reports, and dashboards that integrate with Genospace’s precision medicine products, as well as conducting statistical analyses and executing research studies. 

Key Responsibilities

• Query for, process, cleanse, and verify the integrity of data used for analysis
• Select features and build and optimize classifiers using machine learning techniques, and deploy machine learning models to generate predictions in a production system
• Leverage data visualization, interactive dashboards, and configurable reports to communicate insights from data
• Enhance data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building data products
• Support concept development and analytic plan development for scientific research studies, and lead the investigation and presentation of scientific results in peer-reviewed publications and conferences
• Collaborate in shared repositories using version control
• Work in close, regular collaboration with science, engineering, and product teams
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

What We’re Looking For

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 2+ years of relevant experience.

Education

Masters degree in quantitative field or extensive experience in a data science related field.

Critical Skills

• Strong experience with a data science relevant programming language, such as R (preferred) and/or Python
• Strong experience with SQL
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, survival analysis, dimension reduction, etc.
• Strong understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, etc.
• Strong experience with data visualization tools such as ggplot2, plotly & matplotlib
• Experience with natural language processing
• Experience with web-scraping and APIs
• Experience with or interest in writing production-ready code
• Experience with or interest in collaborating with physicians and scientists
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable with concepts in relevant fields of application - therapeutics, molecular biology, oncology, clinical trials, electronic medical records, ICD10 codes, HIPAA

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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