Data Scientist II
Spectraforce
North Chicago, Illinois
3 hours ago
Job Description
Position Title: Data Scientist II
Work Location: North Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Assignment Duration: 6 months (possibility of extension)
Position Summary:
Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions.
• Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized.
• In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights.
• Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine.
• Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development.
• Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses.
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members.
• Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior.
Qualification & Experience:
• Masters or PhD with 3-5 years experience.
• 3-5 years of analytics related experience in clinical research. Experience with clinical data preferred.
• Advanced career level proficiency in R and Python or other statistical packages.
• Expert proficiency with Machine Learning, NLP, and other advanced analytics techniques.
• 1+ years experience with agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, OpenAI agents, etc. (including orchestration with tool-use), LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines (RAG).
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 45.00/hr.
Work Location: North Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Assignment Duration: 6 months (possibility of extension)
Position Summary:
Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions.
• Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized.
• In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights.
• Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine.
• Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development.
• Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses.
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members.
• Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior.
Qualification & Experience:
• Masters or PhD with 3-5 years experience.
• 3-5 years of analytics related experience in clinical research. Experience with clinical data preferred.
• Advanced career level proficiency in R and Python or other statistical packages.
• Expert proficiency with Machine Learning, NLP, and other advanced analytics techniques.
• 1+ years experience with agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, OpenAI agents, etc. (including orchestration with tool-use), LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines (RAG).
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 45.00/hr.