Data Scientist IV

Data Scientist IV

The Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology is seeking a full time Data Scientist IV. An Artificial Intelligence and Data Scientist 4 will assist in multiple ongoing and future biomedical microcopy and artificial intelligence research projects by (1) designing and implementing cloud solutions and building MLOps on the cloud (2) building CI/CD pipeline orchestration; (3) performing data analyses, processing, and feature extraction, and developing data tools for accelerating research; (4) developing and validating a variety of machine learning/deep learning models with heterogenous cell and tissue imaging data; (5) running code refactoring, optimization, containerization, deployment, versioning, and monitoring of its quality; (6) testing data science models, and validating/testing automation; (6) communicating with a team of PhD/MS student researchers, faculty, and physicians. They will ensure data and model quality, integrity, and robustness, and will contribute to scientific publications related to healthcare/ imaging AI research.

Essential Functions;

• Maintaining a large cell and tissue microscopy image database (murine and human) as well as corresponding clinical biometrics data and outcome
• Actively collaborate and coordinate with a large number of national and international collaborators to ingest data, and maintain the database using careful metadata standards, including sample preparation, imaging, as well digital parameters
• Maintain the derived data, such as annotations, as well as other results obtained from the raw data
• Work with collaborators, students, partners on demand and share the data as needed
• Maintain a description of data in hand as part of a database
• Maintain the data via a cloud server using Digital Slide Achieve tool

• Develop and maintain end-user plugins for conducting detection, segmentation, and quantification of micro and macro anatomical structures in tissues, predictive modeling of diseases, as well as image and molecular omics data fusion
• Actively work with UF IT to ensure that the end-user customers are able to use these plugins without any service interruption. Provide needed support to end-users.
• Maintain a federated model to allow end-users to conduct computational analysis without data leaving their host servers
• Maintain a slack channel on the system, documentation, and version control for guiding end-users

• Develop and maintain tools for visualizing multi-omics data
• Actively work with UF IT to ensure that the end-user customers are able to use the visualization tool. Provide needed support to end-users.
• Maintain a slack channel, documentation, and version control for guiding end-users

• Communicating findings to project leaders and team
• Summarizing and visualizing results for inclusion in scientific publication
• Maintaining appropriate records of research methods and results and assisting in preparation of presentations and/or writing manuscripts.

$80,500 – $106,400 Annually

A doctorate in a related field with two years of relevant experience in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field. A Masters degree with three to five years of relevant experience.

• Extensive experience working with cloud structures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Extensive experience with containerization (Docker, Singularity, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Extensive experience working with high-performance computing clusters (HPCCs).
• Extensive experience with version control systems (VCS; e.g., Git).
• Software development.
• Design and deployment of real-world, large-scale, user-facing systems is preferred.
• Ensuring data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, and computer vision is a plus.
• Proficiency in Digital & Computational Pathology, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Image Processing and Analysis
• Extensive experience with computer vision (CV) or natural language processing (NLP) using deep learning
• Experience with patient health data
• Experience managing large-scale databases and data repositories
• Track record of academic research and/or scientific publications

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This is a time limited position.

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.