Job Location: San Diego, CA
Job Detail:
At Veracyte, we offer exciting career opportunities for those interested in joining a pioneering team that is committed to transforming cancer care for patients across the globe. Working at Veracyte – whether it be in one of our labs, corporate offices, the field – enables our employees to not only make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients, but to also learn and grow within a results-driven environment that values innovation, collaboration, and compassion.
The Position:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Data Scientist II to join our Data Analysis Team (DAT), as part of the R&D group for Veracyte Inc. This position offers a unique opportunity to work with experienced professionals to carry out data analysis and modeling the world’s largest database of cancer patients, encompassing multi-platform genomic and clinical data. These projects are critical to Veracyte’s efforts in analyzing and visualization complex real-world data to enhance our products.
The primary objective of this role is to efficiently and independently execute data science projects based on Veracyte’s business need, such as analyzing and developing different algorithms on different modalities of the data, especially data from different platforms. A deep understanding of cancer biology and treatments, combined with data insights, will be essential to carry out these projects and advance our innovation with data. The role will also involve conducting analysis of real-world data focusing on patients’ treatment pattern and responses. Additionally, exploring new directions in ML/AI model building on multiple data modalities will contribute to our innovation. The ideal candidate is passionate about data, eager to learn independently, and possesses strong analytical, problem-solving, and storytelling skills.
LOCATION:
- This is a remote friendly position.
- On-site cube available in South San Francisco or San Diego.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Efficiently and independently execute data science projects based on the company’s priorities, focusing on multi-platform genomic and clinical data.
- Drive data innovation by exploring different data sources, analysis methods, and ML algorithms.
- Analyze real-world data to identify patterns for various clinical and business cases, including treatment patterns and management costs.
- Identify key clinical events, such as cancer progression and treatments, using CPT, NDC, ICD codes, and structured database free text.
- Conduct statistical analysis and survival modelling for the clinical events defined from real-world data.
- Visualize finding from the data and summarize them in a coherent story.
Who You Are:
- PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, Data Science or equivalent field.
- 3+ years of experience of data/applied scientist role.
- Proficient in SQL and R.
- Strong skills with data clean-up, manipulation and visualization using tidyverse, ggplot in R or equivalent.
- Proficient in statistical analysis, especially in survival modelling and hypothesis testing (i.e., multivariate regression modelling with interaction effects).
- Problem solving skills via searching Internet as well as leveraging LLM such as ChatGPT.
- Excellent in summarizing and communicating findings from data and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
- Eagerness to learn new technologies and adapt to evolving requirements.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (preferred but not required):
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) is desirable.
- Knowledge of basic bioinformatics, genomics, and cancer biology
- Past research experience in urological oncology, bioinformatics, digital pathology, or relevant fields
- Research experience with AI models such as LLM, vision/time series foundation models.
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What We Can Offer You
Veracyte is a growing company that offers significant career opportunities if you are curious, driven, patient-oriented and aspire to help us build a great company. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, and are committed to fostering an inclusive workforce, where diverse backgrounds are represented, engaged, and empowered to drive innovative ideas and decisions. We are proud to have been named a Bay Area Top Workplace for ten years in a row by the Bay Area News Group and Best Places to Work in San Diego in 2023 by the San Diego Business Journal.
About Veracyte
Veracyte (Nasdaq: VCYT) is a global genomic diagnostics company that improves patient care by providing answers to clinical questions, informing diagnosis and treatment decisions throughout the patient journey in cancer and other diseases. The company’s growing menu of genomic tests leverage advances in genomic science and technology, enabling patients to avoid risky, costly diagnostic procedures and quicken time to appropriate treatment. The company’s tests in lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, bladder cancer and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are available to patients and its lymphoma subtyping and renal cancer tests are in development. With Veracyte’s exclusive global license to a best-in-class diagnostics instrument platform, the company is positioned to deliver its tests to patients worldwide. Veracyte is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com and follow the company on X (Formerly Twitter).
Veracyte, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability status. Veracyte participates in E-Verify in the United States. View our CCPA Disclosure Notice.
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