Data Scientist

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About the job

We are looking for a Data Scientist with strong foundations in statistics and hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic AI solutions. The ideal candidate combines rigorous analytical thinking with a research-oriented approach to development strong SAS programming and open-source technical skills and the ability to build production-grade AI systems. Efficient programming expertise is valued to bridge traditional statistical workflows with modern AI-driven approaches. Deep domain understanding in life sciences or across multiple industries is highly valued as is a demonstrated ability to learn quickly and adapt to new tools frameworks and problem spaces.

As a Data Scientist you will:

• Design build and deploy agentic AI solutions (multi-step reasoning agents tool-using systems workflow automation) to solve real business/scientific problems
• Approach development with a research-oriented mindset - exploring prototyping and validating new techniques before scaling to production
• Apply statistical methods to validate interpret and communicate model outputs and analytical findings
• Develop and maintain SAS programs/pipelines particularly where regulatory or clinical data standards apply
• Write unit tests and maintain code quality standards to ensure reliability of deployed solutions
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing integration and deployment of AI/data science solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (data engineering domain SMEs business stakeholders) to translate requirements into scalable solutions
• Evaluate emerging open-source AI/ML techniques and frameworks and assess their applicability to current problem sets
• Document methodologies architectures and derivations clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences

Required qualifications

• MSc/Ph.D. in Statistics/ Mathematics with 3-8 years of relevant experience.
• Strong programming proficiency in SAS Python (agentic AI frameworks LLM orchestration API integration)
• Solid grounding in statistics (hypothesis testing regression experimental design probability)
• Working experience in agentic AI system development (LLM-based agents tool-calling RAG multi-agent orchestration or similar)
• Strong open-source skills
• Proficiency in SAS programming (Base SAS/Macro; SAS in a clinical/regulatory context is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with unit testing frameworks and test-driven development practices
• Practical experience with Git CI/CD pipelines and deployment of models/solutions into production environments
• Familiarity with basic software engineering practices (code review modular design version control workflows)

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