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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm; hours may be flexible/vary
Posted Date
11/15/2024
Salary Range: $32.95 - 67.53 Hourly
Employment Type
4 - Staff: Limited
Duration
3-4 months
Job #
20758

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Come join our team as a Data Scientist I and take on an important role in a world-class health organization at our Department of Computational Medicine at UCLA. The department provides a hub for collaborations across the UCLA campus to enable scientific discovery in biomedical data sciences and then works hand in hand with the UCLA Health System to apply these discoveries to improve patient care.  Within UCLA's campus lies a prestigious medical school, a world-class research hospital, and nationally-ranked departments within the engineering school with significant strength in data sciences.

The Data Scientist will complete assignments using the application of computational theory into practice and with an understanding of IT-related diverse research application areas. This role works with deidentified data sets to analyze contract data, and will assist the PI and laboratory staff with entry level coding. The Data Scientist will also help with data entry databases and validate for errors.


Note this position is a full-time limited appointment for 3-4 months and may convert to career. 

Salary Range: $32.95 - $67.53 Hourly

Job Qualifications

Required:

  • Demonstrated skills in analyzing high volumes of data sets using coding and various software methodologies.  
  • Familiar with at least 2 programming languages (R, C#, Python, SAS, STATA or related).  
  • Knowledgeable in computational methods including AI and machine learning.  
  • Experience in computation science, data science, statistics, or related field, with computer, computational, and/or data management experience.

Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred. 


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.