Senior Data Scientist
ActiGraph, United States
Job Description
ActiGraph is an international leader in the development of validated medical-grade wearable solutions used to measure physical activity, sleep, and behavior patterns in the broader global academic and pharma research communities.
ActiGraph is looking for an experienced data scientist who is passionate about using data science to advance clinical research and improve health. The team you will join is responsible for developing and validating new digital clinical measures using time-series health data collected from smart sensing technology. In this role, you will build data processing pipelines, conduct data analytics and collaborate with clinical and movement scientists on the interpretation of the digital measures.
We hope you'll consider joining us in our mission to help bring digital data to life!
The essential duties and responsibilities for this role include:
- Providing data science expertise, in collaboration with clinical science, to identify relevant digital measures that advance ActiGraph’s products and vision in clinical research.
- Building and maintaining the state-of-the-art technical capabilities to support the development and processing pipelines of digital measures from large-scale sensor data.
- Designing, implementing and evaluating statistical approaches for health data analytics.
- Lead collaborations with 3rd party companies providing analytical support.
- Lead the SDLC process to ensure the robustness of analytics solutions.
- Mentor junior colleagues on the data science team, helping establish DS role models and best practices.
- Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently.
All responsibilities are to be performed in accordance with the ActiGraph core values, standards, policies, and procedures.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have the following required qualifications:
- PhD in mathematics, computer science, electrical engineer, physics, or related field with 3+ years of industry experience or MS in related field with 5-8 years industry experience
- Experience with the analysis of time-series data from motion (e.g. IMU, Video) and physiological (e.g. ECG, EMG, EEG, HR, temperature, speech) capture devices
- Strong background in data science, signal processing, and machine learning
- Strong software development skills, with proficiency in Python
- Experience in developing cloud-native solutions using services such as AWS or Azure
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills to convey results with team members, colleagues, external experts, and regulatory authorities
Preferred qualification are:
- Experience in the clinical trial, research, and/or healthcare industry
- Experience in the measure of gait, posture, range of motion using wearable or IoT devices.
- Expertise in advanced machine learning techniques.
- Experience with SDLC especially in a regulated digital health environment is a plus
- Experience working in a translational, collaborative, and multidisciplinary environment
- Experience in building containerized data processing pipelines using Docker
Benefits
At ActiGraph, we do our best to offer benefits and a work environment that is positive, fun, and tailored towards the needs and feedback of our team members. We do so by offering:
- A casual "dress-code" environment
- Pet friendly offices
- A family-oriented and collaborative workplace
- Paid time off (including paid time off for your birthday)
- And a very generous suite of benefits including: medical, dental, vision, basic/life accidental, short/long term disability, identity theft, 401K (plus a match), supplemental insurance options, AND tuition reimbursement