Senior Data Scientist, Full-time, Days

The Senior Data Scientist reflects the mission vision and values of NM adheres to the organizations Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program and complies with all relevant policies procedures guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Northwestern Medicine Information Services drives innovative highvalue solutions to transform health care.   

We are committed to supporting the relentless pursuit of better medicine by providing exceptional service to our patients and guests as well as internal clients across the organization. To ensure excellence our team goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that our systems work together seamlessly.  

Northwestern Medicine understands that technology plays an integral role in shaping the future of health care. Information Services strategically supports the organization by:   

• Enabling digital solutions by leveraging capabilities such as AI automation and rollout of advanced cyber controls that support digital transformation strategies
• Implementing advanced technologies in clinical and administrative areas
• Further develop end user support model to help enhance modern infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• As a leader on the Data Science team you will work with stakeholders to design build and evaluate solutions to business and clinical problems within the organization. You will use data statistics and machine learning tools to construct solutions that meet the requirements of the problem and deliver those solutions to make a tangible impact. We do not just build models; we collaborate with experts to understand and solve problems. Bring a product mindset to a technical field to design solutions that deliver value and can be maintained. Help train the rest of the team to have that same mindset.
• This role is dedicated to the Canning Thoracic Institute and will conduct research and development as well as prototyping advanced technology solutions to enhance medical training improve quality of care and enable timely interventions for pulmonary and thoracic patients.
• Contribute to the development of advanced technologies that enable the use of medical data across a variety of disciplines and modalities (e.g. lung sounds gathered from digital stethoscopes electrocardiogram waveforms videos of the airways (bronchi) in the lungs CT imaging clinical notes etc.)

Qualifications :

Required:

• Masters degree or equivalent experience in CS Engineering Math Physics or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience in machine learning with a focus on model building analysis of outcomes and model deployment
• Professional experience using cloud platforms like Azure for scalable data processing and model deployment
• Proficiency in SQL Python and a deep learning library like PyTorch
• Strong problemsolving skills. Able to analyze complex problems break them down into manageable components and develop effective solutions
• Works well with ambiguity. Can navigate a complex problem with little guidance and still deliver results
• Strong stakeholder management skills. Experience building and growing relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful implementation of datadriven solutions
• Able to mentor the rest of the team on topics like programming deployment maintenance project lifecycle working with stakeholders etc.
• Systems level thinking. Ability to think about how a solution will be used and identify other components that need to be built or integrated
• Experience running projects from inception to deployment. Familiar with the product development lifecycle
• Experience leading and influencing crossfunctional teams
• Product mindset. Able to identify and design solutions that solve a family of problems when relevant as opposed to treating every problem as unique. Design systems so they can be maintained

Preferred

• PhD in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
• Knowledge of audio processing techniques and algorithms
  • Collect preprocess and augment audio datasets converting raw audio into spectrogram images
  • Apply techniques like data augmentation (noise addition time shifting etc.) to enhance model robustness
• Strong understanding of image processing techniques and algorithms
  • Experience with traditional and modern computer vision techniques (e.g. object detection image segmentation image and feature extraction)
• Domain knowledge in healthcare. Understanding of healthcare terminology workflows and challenges enabling effective collaboration with clinicians and healthcare professionals
• Health care data integration experience (PHI/HIPAA HL7 FHIR)
• Familiarity with FDA regulation for software as a medical device
• Experiencemaking strategy decisions for a team while considering short and longterm impacts

Additional Information :

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age sex race color religion national origin gender identity veteran status disability sexual orientation or any other protected status.

If we offer you a job we will perform a background check that includes a review of any criminal convictions. A conviction does not disqualify you from employment at Northwestern Medicine. We consider this on a casebycase basis and follow all state and federal guidelines.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical emotional and financial wellbeing while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section to learn more.