Senior Data Scientist

Primary Function of Position
The Ion endoluminal system is Intuitives robotic platform for minimally invasive biopsy in the peripheral lung with an initial goal of improving the early diagnosis of lung cancer. Ions Data team is responsible for developing data pipelines applications and analytical tools that generate insights and drive decision making for internal and external stakeholders. The successful candidate in this role will be a contributor to a high-performing data science and data engineering team to develop data pipelines analytics and related applications.

Essential Job Duties (Specific responsibilities and tasks an individual would be expected to perform in the role. Additional job duties may be determined by functional people manager)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business units to understand and communicate Ions needs and goals.
• Develop improve and maintain robust data pipelines for extracting and transforming data from log files and event streams.
• Ensure that our data pipelines and data models support our analytics and reporting objectives.
• Design models and algorithms to derive insights and metrics from large datasets.
• Contribute to technical requirements definition prototyping development testing and release.
• Communicate findings to stakeholders through visualizations dashboards reports and presentations.
• Champion best practices in software development including code reviews coding conventions testing frameworks and design patterns.
• Assess and recommend new tools and technologies that make the data team more effective.

Qualifications :

Required Skills and Experience (Specific skills knowledge and experience that an individual must possess in order to successfully perform in job)

• Extensive experience in architecting developing and launching production-level data pipelines.
• Extensive experience in building data models to support analytics including metrics and KPIs.
• Strong proficiency in Python SQL and related languages.
• Experience with platforms and tooling such as Snowflake AWS Airflow Kafka and dbt or similar.
• Solid understanding of statistical modeling machine learning algorithms and data visualization techniques.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Required Education and Training (As applicable - Specific education and training that an individual must possess in order to successfully perform in job)

• Bachelors Masters or PhD degree in computer science or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in data science and/or data engineering.

Working Conditions (As applicable - Any physical requirements for the job.  If not applicable state none)

None

Preferred Skills and Experience (As applicable - Specific skills knowledge and experience that are not required to perform the job but are desirable to have)

• Experience with containerization tools like Docker and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with observability and alerting tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty.
• Experience working with cybersecurity and data privacy requirements.
• Experience working in medical devices or other regulated industries.

Additional Information :

Due to the nature of our business and the role please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19.  Details can vary by role.

Intuitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race sex pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity national origin color age religion protected veteran or disability status genetic information or any other status protected under federal state or local applicable laws.

Mandatory Notices

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Certain information you provide as part of the application will be used for purposes of determining whether Intuitive Surgical will need to (i) obtain an export license from the U.S. Government on your behalf (note: the governments licensing process can take 3 to 6 months) or (ii) implement a Technology Control Plan (TCP) (note: typically adds 2 weeks to the hiring process).  

For any Intuitive role subject to export controls final offers are contingent upon obtaining an approved export license and/or an executed TCP prior to the prospective employeesstart date which may or may not be flexible and within a timeframe that does not unreasonably impede the hiring need. If applicable candidates will be notified and instructed on any requirements for these purposes. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

Preference will be given to qualified candidates who do not reside or plan to reside in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Indiana Iowa Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina or Tennessee.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages inclusive of base pay incentives benefits and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role as actual pay will be determined based on several factors including experience skills and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time