Senior Data Scientist

About the role

Medidata is seeking a Data Scientist to join the AI organization. This role will design, implement, and productionize new AI-driven features integrated with Medidata products. You will work closely with the Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate machine learning models for novel clinical trial applications.
• Interact with the product team to understand product needs and provide AI solutions (data, modeling strategies, and model serving).
• Develop prototypes that demonstrate how models can be used within customer-facing products.
• Evaluate and assess novel tools, algorithms, and technologies to foster an AI community.
• Build AI services that promote end-to-end pipelines from data curation, processing, model building, model evaluation, to model deployment for production.
• Lead junior data scientists in implementing AI tasks and guide technical decisions across teams.

Qualifications

• A Master's or PhD in a computational field such as Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, Linux shell scripting, AWS, Docker, and Git.
• Experience with AI service development and deployment, familiarity with different model serving strategies and service basics (performance, latency, scalability, etc).
• Technical leadership in both hard and soft skills, proactive, clear, and efficient in communication.
• Experience with LLM or transformer-based algorithms and validation methods is preferred.
• Previous experience with deploying GPU-based models to AWS is a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience in building agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with NLP in healthcare data datasets in production.
• Familiarity with machine learning infrastructure and frameworks, CI/CD, and MLOps.

Benefits

Medidata offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, 401(k) matching, family leave, flexible paid time off, and 10 paid holidays per year. The salary range for this position in New York is $114,750 - $153,000, with a target bonus component.