University of Florida · 1 day ago
Data Scientist III - Quality and Patient Safety initiatives
Gainesville, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$85K/yr - $105K/yr
5+ years expThe University of Florida is committed to advancing health through education, research, and patient care. The Data Scientist III will advance the Quality and Patient Safety initiative by harnessing clinical and operational data to improve patient safety and clinical care quality across the UF Health enterprise and beyond.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Collaborate with clinical teams to design data-driven decision-making models and translate decision points into available clinical data
Explore and evaluate scientific methodologies, such as reinforcement learning, net benefit models, state space models, causal inference, and generative AI considering uncertainly, constraints, and multiple competing objectives
Design and implement AI models, optimizing physical and time resources
Lead innovative approaches to integration of different data modalities into AI models to mitigate complex healthcare challenges
Contribute robust, clean, and maintainable code to standard AI and machine learning pipelines, ensuring reproducibility and efficient collaboration across the team
Leverage modern software engineering practices (version control, code reviews, unit testing) to maintain high-quality model development processes
Identify opportunities for advanced analytics and integration approaches
Develop scalable feature extraction pipelines to programmatically transform raw clinical data into model-ready inputs for various healthcare scenarios
Engineer automated data validation frameworks to handle missing data, schema enforcement, categorical encoding, and derived variables at scale
Architect and implement robust ETL workflows for data ingestion and transformation that enforce healthcare data governance and privacy standards
Implement feature stores or shared transformation libraries to ensure strict parity between training and inference environments and minimize training-serving skew
Conduct technical benchmarking and integration testing to evaluate new analytics tools and models within the production stack
Engineer production-grade CI/CD pipelines to automate model testing, deployment, monitoring, and retraining cycles in clinical environments
Architect and maintain containerized microservices (e.g., Docker) to serve model predictions via secure, low-latency APIs
Build comprehensive observability and logging infrastructure to track system health, latency, and model drift in real-time
Implement model versioning and rollback strategies to manage updates triggered by new data, clinical practice changes, or organizational needs
Create comprehensive reports and documentation summarizing the project status, summary recommendations, and final outcomes
Develop interactive dashboards and other reporting mechanisms that facilitate real-time analytics and model insights
Collaborate with teams and subject matter experts to prepare technical and non-technical presentations, analysis, and reports for leadership, program design reviews, and operational readiness reviews to share knowledge and promote partnership
Qualification
Required
A Bachelor's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and five years of experience; Master's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and three years of experience; Doctoral Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and one year of experience
Preferred
Highly proficient in Python coding, including data management libraries
Experienced with SQL programming
Expertise in design and implementation of data-driven projects
Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a strong understanding of data-driven approaches to decision-making
Experience with artificial intelligence frameworks, such as graph neural networks, natural language processing, generative AI, multi-objective optimization, causal inference, state space modeling, or reinforcement learning
Experience with large-scale distributed computing environments (SLURM, Dask)
Familiarity with systems administration tools and workflows (docker, ansible, CI/CD)
Familiarity with MLOps principles and best practices
Experience with PowerBI reporting and visualization
Hands-on experience with healthcare data management and analytics
Excellent communication skills, with both technical and non-technical audiences
Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to be extremely independent, interact professionally, and utilize effective organizational skills
Benefits
Low-cost State Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Life and Disability Insurance
Generous Retirement Options to secure your future
Comprehensive Paid Time Off Packages: (includes over 10 paid holidays, as well as paid family, sick and vacation leave)
Exceptional Personal and Professional Development Opportunities: Access to UF Training & Organizational Development programs, leadership development, LinkedIn Learning, and more
Tuition Assistance through the UF Employee Education Program
Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Eligible Employer
Company
University of Florida
University of Florida is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$6.83MKey Investors
Align TechnologyUS Department of EnergyNFWF
2025-06-02Grant
2024-09-17Grant· $2M
2024-09-10Grant· $0.18M
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Chris Cowen
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