Data Scientist III - Sarver Heart Center

Data Scientist III - Sarver Heart Center

Posting Number
req20455

Department
Sarver Heart Center

Department Website Link
https://heart.arizona.edu/

Location
University of Arizona Health Sciences

Address
1501 North Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85724 USA

Position Highlights
The Sarver Heart Center is seeking a Data Scientist III. This person will facilitate the bioinformatics component of research activities focused on mechanisms of myocardial regeneration in the research program of Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD. This will require demonstrated experience with biomedical data analysis or working on healthcare-related machine learning projects, strong statistical analysis skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.

Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!

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Duties & Responsibilities

• As a subject matter expert in AI methodology on the research team, participate with Principal Investigators and key personnel collaborators (internal and external) to coordinate planning, organizing and designing of scientific or medical research projects and experimental protocols.
• Independently perform assigned bioinformatic components of projects and protocols.
• Attends weekly team meetings to discuss results and plan experiments to ensure that projects support current team objectives.
• Gather, review and analyze biomedical data requiring the application of statistical and/or mathematical computation and analysis tools.
• Evaluate new platforms, techniques and scientific programs and revise techniques or approaches to work as necessitated by large complex research data.
• Develop, compile and submits research results to supervisor.
• Prepare or assist in preparation of research papers, reports, and abstracts for publication as one of co-authors.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Proficiency in NLP, with experience in text analysis, language modeling, and sentiment analysis. Experience with one or more modern NLP frameworks and tools (e.g., Transformers library, NLTK, SpaCy, BERT, AllenNLP, Gensim), is a strong plus.
• Expertise in programming languages such as Python, R, or Java, and familiarity with machine learning libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
• Expertise with data preprocessing, feature extraction, and model validation techniques.
• Familiarity with audio processing libraries (e.g., LibROSA, AudioKit, Kaldi, PyAudio, SpeechRecognition, Praat, Wav2Vec).

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Master's Degree required.

Preferred Qualifications

FLSA
Exempt

Full Time/Part Time
Full Time

Number of Hours Worked per Week
40

Job FTE
1.00

Work Calendar
Fiscal

Job Category
Research

Benefits Eligible
Yes - Full Benefits

Rate of Pay
$75,540 - $98,201

Compensation Type
salary at 1.0 full-time equivalency (FTE)

Grade
10

Compensation Guidance
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Grade Range Minimum
$75540

Grade Range Midpoint
$98201

Grade Range Maximum
$120863

Career Stream and Level
PC3

Job Family
Research & Data Analysis

Job Function
Research

Type of criminal background check required:
Name-based criminal background check (non-security sensitive)

Number of Vacancies
1

Target Hire Date

Expected End Date

Contact Information for Candidates
Charlotte Todd | ctodd@arizona.edu | 520-626-6051

Open Date
8/29/2024

Open Until Filled
Yes

Documents Needed to Apply
Resume and Cover Letter

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