[Remote] Data Scientist (Remote Eligible)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mathematica is a company that applies expertise at the intersection of data, methods, policy, and practice to improve well-being around the world. They are seeking a Data Scientist to derive meaning from data and support senior staff in implementing various data science methods for research and client systems.

Responsibilities

• Conducting causal, predictive, and descriptive analyses
• Writing and maintaining programming systems in languages such as Python and R to build and evaluate models
• Developing reliable data pipelines to obtain, combine, and transform datasets on cloud, internal, and client servers
• Communicating technical results to diverse stakeholders including clients and cross-functional teams
• Developing and maintaining technical and methodological documentation
• Co-developing analysis plans with a senior data scientist or researcher
• Leading and managing small teams and tasks with oversight from a more senior staff member

Skills

• Master's degree in a technical field such as statistics, data science, data analytics, mathematics, operations research, computer science, and/or social science; equivalent years of experience can be substituted
• Demonstrated interest and/or experience using data science and/or statistics to contribute to projects with a policy/social impact in academic and/or professional settings
• Experience applying generative AI programmatically to extract insights from unstructured data, construct new features for analysis, or as a part of a larger systematic analysis
• Experience executing causal, predictive, and descriptive data science and statistics techniques including regression modeling, machine learning algorithms, network analysis, or natural language processing
• At least three years of experience performing data cleaning and analysis using programming languages such as R, Python, or Julia in the academic, extra-curricular, or professional environment
• Ability and desire to work independently and take initiative as part of an interdisciplinary team that may be geographically dispersed. This includes being able to learn from resources such as academic articles, white papers, self-guided tutorials, and package documentation and willingness to constantly learn and contribute to knowledge sharing with team members
• Experience with reproducible research principles, version control, interactive visualizations, and common packages/libraries for supporting data science work in R, Python, and/or Julia (e.g., tidyverse, data.table, R Shiny, R Markdown, pandas, polars, NumPy, scikit-learn, MLJ.jl, DataFrames.jl, and/or Makie.jl)
• Experience with healthcare datasets (for example, Medicare or Medicaid claims and enrollment data)
• Production-quality machine learning applications
• Cloud computing environments (AWS/Databricks/Snowflake/etc.)
• Algorithmic fairness and ethics

Benefits

• Mathematica offers our employees competitive salaries, and a comprehensive benefits package
• Advantages of being 100 percent employee owned
• Employee stock owner; financial benefits of ESOP holdings that have increased in tandem with the company’s growth and financial strength
• Work remotely or flexibly in one of our office locations
• Coworking spaces where available (for opportunities to meet up with co-workers)

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