Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Norstella is a group of pharmaceutical solutions providers that helps clients navigate complexities across the drug development life cycle, from pipeline to patient. The Senior Data Scientist will research, develop, evaluate, and deploy AI/ML solutions for pharma intelligence products, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to data science platforms and assets.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product partners and others to identify new opportunities to apply AI / ML to our content and products
- Conduct research and identify AI / ML algorithms and methods to solve specific business problems
- Implement rigorous testing and evaluation of potential solutions; review indicative results and proof-of-concepts with multi-disciplinary teams as part of customer-led product development
- Deploy your solutions as production-grade microservices in collaboration with engineering and DevOps teams
- Contribute towards common data science platforms and data assets
- Stay up-to-date, constantly learning about advances in the field, and deliver periodic presentations to internal teams on these developments
- All other duties, as assigned
Skills
- • Graduate degree in a STEM field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent practical experience
- • 5+ years of experience developing AI / ML applications and data driven solutions
- • Excellent knowledge of Python and core data science libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, LangChain, etc
- • Experience with LLMs, e.g. foundation model APIs, prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation
- • Substantial depth and breadth across state-of-the-art AI / ML techniques such as Generative AI, NLP, Deep Learning, etc
- • Understanding of CS fundamentals, computational complexity, and algorithm design
- • Ability to engineer and deploy well-architected software packages
- • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to independently own and execute a project holistically at a high level
- • Experience mentoring junior team members
- • Deep expertise in engineering agentic AI systems
- • Knowledge of the healthcare / pharma domain and experience applying AI to healthcare data
- • Experience with AWS, especially ECS, Bedrock, SageMaker, serverless compute and storage
- • Ability to prototype PoC webapps with familiarity across the full stack
- • Expert usage of AI coding tools and workflows
Benefits
- Medical and Prescription Drug Benefits
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Dental & Vision Benefits
- Basic Life and AD&D Benefits
- 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match
- Company Paid Short & Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off & Company Holidays
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