Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · 19 hours ago
Data Scientist II
Philadelphia, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$105K/yr - $139K/yr
3+ years expChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is seeking a Data Scientist II to join their Data Science and Biostatistics Unit. The role involves providing data management, analysis, and consultation to support research teams, with a focus on implementing methodologies and performing data manipulation using machine learning and statistical methods.
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Responsibilities
Implement computational algorithms and experiments for test and evaluation; interprets data to assess algorithm performance
Make significant contributions to the formulation of analysis plans and associated documentation of methods that meet stringent criteria for reproducibility and measures of significance
Develop high-quality code implementing models and algorithms as application programming interfaces or other service-oriented software implementations
Participate in communication of research methods, implementation, and results to varied audience of clinicians, scientists, analysts, and programmers
Work closely with applications research group to translate models and algorithms into engineered production applications
Contribute to manuscript writing for results publication, authors abstracts, and presents at professional conferences
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree - Required
At least three (3) years experience with progressively more complex data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or mathematical modeling projects - Required
Experience and demonstrated ability acquiring new technical/analytic skills and domain knowledge to support successful contribution to research and development projects is required
Experience formulating or contributing to the formulation of analysis plans and selection of appropriate methods
Experience using existing machine learning and analytic tools such as ScikitLearn, Weka, R, and Mathematica in either applied educational or professional projects is required
Experience writing code in either applied educational or professional projects using one or more of the following languages: Python, Scala, Java is required
Strong verbal and written communications skills with the demonstrated ability to explain complex technical concepts to a lay audience
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field - Preferred
At least four (4) years with progressively more complex data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or mathematical modeling projects - Preferred
Familiarity with relational databases (e.g. Postgres, MySQL) strongly preferred
Computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) experience, particularly in the biological and medical domains, is strongly preferred
Applied statistics or mathematical modeling experience preferred
Natural language processing experience particularly in the biological and medical domains preferred
Experience using distributed computing technologies (e.g. Akka, MapReduce, Cuda) preferred
Familiarity with graph, key value, and document data stores (e.g. Neo4j, Hadoop, MongoDB) preferred
Experience creating informative visualizations for complex, high dimensional data preferred
Experience with probabilistic graphical models, time series predictive models, Markov models preferred
Company
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Since its start in 1855 as the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to caring for children, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been the birthplace for many dramatic firsts in pediatric medicine.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.35MKey Investors
UnitedHealthcare Community PlanNational Cancer InstituteBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2025-12-10Grant· $1.7M
2025-09-29Grant· $1M
2025-06-18Grant· $1M
Leadership Team
Adam Resnick
Director of the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b)
Benjamin Laskin
Chief of Nephrology
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