Biomedical Informatics Research Data Scientist II

The Computational Health Informatics Program (www.chip.org) at Boston Children's Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking a Biomedical Data Scientist to join the SMART Health IT team (http://smarthealthit.org). As a member of the team that has literally defined the national standards for healthcare data APIs and populational level clinical data and created a number of widely adopted open source projects in the space, you will be at the center of data innovation in healthcare.

Join our multidisciplinary team advancing data-driven clinical research and clinical decision support (CDS). In this role, key studies include:

• Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): building predictive and personalized models to inform therapy selection and disease management.
• Diabetes: data-driven interpretation of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM).
• Adverse drug event (ADE) detection in immunosuppressed patients.

• Develop, analyze, and interpret large biomedical datasets to support clinical research and predictive modeling.
• Develop repeatable pipelines in Python 3 using pandas, scikit-learn, and other statistical tools.
• Query and manage health datasets using SQL on AWS cloud
• Collaborate with clinicians, scientists, and programmers to translate complex health datasets into actionable clinical insights.
• Contribute to peer-reviewed publications.
• Create or contribute to a range of compelling communications (e.g., PowerPoint presentations, e-mails, memos, scientific presentations, and publications) that clearly deliver content, preparing communications appropriate for management and internal distributions.
• Present at project and internal/external meetings; effectively conveying progress and asserting point of view; constructively discusses issues and providing facts; builds credibility and trust by asking thoughtful questions and actively listening; runs productive project meetings that advance problem-solving.

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field required; PhD, MD, or MS preferred.

• A minimum of one year of position-specific experience might potentially include experience acquired through MSc or Ph.D. studies.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Python 3 and SQL.
• Strong foundation in statistics and applied quantitative methods.
• Familiarity with fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) or large language models (LLM) is a plus and can be learned on the job.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent problem-solving ability, collaborative spirit, and scientific curiosity.

The posted pay range is Boston Children's reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.