Data Scientist III - Sarver Heart Center

at  University of Arizona

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS

The Sarver Heart Center is seeking a Data Scientist III. This person will facilitate the bioinformatics component of research activities focused on mechanisms of myocardial regeneration in the research program of Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD. This will require demonstrated experience with biomedical data analysis or working on healthcare-related machine learning projects, strong statistical analysis skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
Outstanding UA benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance plans; life insurance and disability programs; paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays; UA/ASU/NAU tuition reduction for the employee and qualified family members; retirement plans; access to UA recreation and cultural activities; and more!
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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Proficiency in NLP, with experience in text analysis, language modeling, and sentiment analysis. Experience with one or more modern NLP frameworks and tools (e.g., Transformers library, NLTK, SpaCy, BERT, AllenNLP, Gensim), is a strong plus.
• Expertise in programming languages such as Python, R, or Java, and familiarity with machine learning libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
• Expertise with data preprocessing, feature extraction, and model validation techniques.
• Familiarity with audio processing libraries (e.g., LibROSA, AudioKit, Kaldi, PyAudio, SpeechRecognition, Praat, Wav2Vec).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Master’s Degree required.

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

At the University of Arizona, we value our inclusive climate because we know that diversity in experiences and perspectives is vital to advancing innovation, critical thinking, solving complex problems, and creating an inclusive academic community. As a Hispanic-serving institution, we translate these values into action by seeking individuals who have experience and expertise working with diverse students, colleagues, and constituencies. Because we seek a workforce with a wide range of perspectives and experiences, we provide equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information. As an Employer of National Service, we also welcome alumni of AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and other national service programs and others who will help us advance our Inclusive Excellence initiative aimed at creating a university that values student, staff and faculty engagement in addressing issues of diversity and inclusiveness.

• As a subject matter expert in AI methodology on the research team, participate with Principal Investigators and key personnel collaborators (internal and external) to coordinate planning, organizing and designing of scientific or medical research projects and experimental protocols.
• Independently perform assigned bioinformatic components of projects and protocols.
• Attends weekly team meetings to discuss results and plan experiments to ensure that projects support current team objectives.
• Gather, review and analyze biomedical data requiring the application of statistical and/or mathematical computation and analysis tools.
• Evaluate new platforms, techniques and scientific programs and revise techniques or approaches to work as necessitated by large complex research data.
• Develop, compile and submits research results to supervisor.
• Prepare or assist in preparation of research papers, reports, and abstracts for publication as one of co-authors.