MSD Senior Data Scientist Computation Biologist 

Czechia 

595630771

Job Description

Primary job responsibilities include

• Selecting appropriate algorithms, and infrastructure to best to solve business challenges

• Ability to formulate and lead data science projects, as well as define and execute appropriate benchmarks and in silico experiments

• Project ownership and quality assurance

• Technical mentorship to junior team members

• Driving the development of the SW code (quality, documented, and reusable) to execute data science algorithms

• Communication and collaboration with diverse stakeholders

• Understanding of the business context of the decisions to be supported

• Use of R or python to develop or implement models, benchmark and evaluate models, while leveraging both internal and public data sources

• Interpret the results and provide communicate with business and R&D stakeholders

• Building and maintaining of knowledge on the data sources, the data quality and metadata

• Recognition of the repeatable situation and suggesting the appropriate level of automation of analytics

• Promotion of a culture of modeling and analytics as a differentiator and competitive advantage – an environment that places high value on embedding analytical tools within business processes

• Staying up to date with cutting edge methods, and sharing this within the team and company

Qualifications and Education Minimum Requirement

• MSc Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Biomedicine, Molecular Biology, Statistics, Physics, or other related field.

Desired Experience and Skills

• Expert R and/or Python user

• Experience with usingPyMOLor similar

• Deep understanding of biological processes

• Familiarity with cutting edge AI protein methods

• Extensive knowledge in one or more of the following areas: wet lab, bioinformatics, biology, structural biology, machine learning, software development

• Record of delivering successful data science products

• Passion for advanced analytics, good quality code and data science

• Experience with version controls systems such as git and collaboration tools

• Experience and/or ability to quickly learn new tools like Databricks.

• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to make high-level presentations for senior executives.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work with incomplete or imperfect data, including ability to interpret and use the analytics results within the real business context.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a globally dispersed team.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g., even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and Mall.cz discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

Current Contingent Workers apply

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computational Biology, Databricks Platform, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Stakeholder Relationship Management

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