Data Scientist

Role overview

Salary

• The stated salary range is CAD 55.25–79.42 per hour.

Responsibilities

• Lead data science strategy and develop sustainable machine learning foundations and capability.
• Develop AI products with clinical and leadership teams.
• Prepare structured and unstructured data for models and improve data collection; transform scanned text and other unusable formats into usable data.
• Apply machine learning to identify patterns, make predictions, and reduce workload across clinical domains.
• Guide production implementation of ML models and collaborate with stakeholders and developers.
• Communicate analytic solutions and product status to leadership; recommend actions for ML pipelines, architectures, and lifecycle.
• Maintain project plans and timelines, improve existing AI products, and build anomaly detection for performance and data accuracy.
• Stay current with technology trends and methods.

Education and experience

• PhD in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or another quantitative field; equivalent education, training, and experience may be considered.
• Five to seven years of experience with large datasets and machine learning models.
• Generative AI and large language model experience is preferred.

Technical and professional capabilities

• Advanced AI product design, quantitative analysis, data mining, statistical methods, and machine learning expertise.
• Experience with methods including regression, random forests, boosting, trees, text mining, network analysis, simulation, clustering, decision trees, and neural networks.
• Experience coding, querying databases, and using statistical languages such as Python, SQL, or R.
• Experience with web services, distributed data and computing tools, and data visualization tools, including examples listed in the posting.
• Ability to plan and coordinate AI product work, synthesize and translate knowledge, communicate effectively, collaborate, analyze complex issues, and present recommendations.

Workplace

• The position is associated with the Central City office in Surrey, B.C., and offers flexible work options; the description does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement.

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