Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, Clinical Biostatistics

Fred Hutch; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sign-on bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is inviting applications for a faculty position in the Clinical Biostatistics Program within the Clinical Research Division. The role focuses on methodological research and collaboration with investigators across Fred Hutch, UW, and national groups.

Successful candidates will engage in independent and collaborative statistical research, with emphasis on survival analysis, competing risks, translational/clinical applications, and master protocols.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have a PhD or foreign equivalent in statistics, biostatistics or a related field.
• Ideal candidate will have a record of and primary interest in statistical methodology and collaborative statistical research demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications and funding.

Responsibilities

• Engage in collaborative and independent statistical research.
• Contribute to research areas such as survival analysis, competing risks, transplantation outcomes, immunotherapy, and clinical trial design.

Skills

Statistical methodology

Collaborative research

Survival analysis

Clinical trial design

Biostatistics

Education

PhD in statistics/biostatistics or related field

Job description

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: Clinical Research Division

Location

Seattle, WA

Open Date

Oct 29, 2026

Description

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center seeks a faculty member at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level to join the Clinical Biostatistics Program within the Clinical Research Division (CRD).

The Clinical Biostatistics Program currently consists of 6 faculty and 11 statistical research associates (SRAs). It is a highly collaborative and methodologically diverse unit that serves as an essential statistical and scientific partner to investigators across Fred Hutch, the University of Washington, national cooperative groups, and numerous academic and clinical research institutions. Our work reflects extensive engagement across basic, translational, and clinical research programs.

Collectively, the Clinical Biostatistics Program Faculty and SRAs provide expertise spanning clinical trial design and conduct, survival analysis, competing risks methodology, cancer survivorship, transplantation outcomes research, immunotherapy, biomarker development, precision oncology (including master protocols), pragmatic trial design elements, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, machine learning, and the analysis of high-dimensional molecular data.

Successful candidates are expected to engage in collaborative and independent statistical research. Key areas of research that are particularly desirable for this position are: s urvival analysis, competing risks methodology, transplantation outcomes, graft versus host disease, immunotherapy, and clinical trial design (early to mid-phase). Other desirable areas of expertise include cancer survivorship, late effects, infectious complications, cumulative burden of morbidity, longitudinal methods, and genomic/proteomic research.

Faculty are expected to perform their primary activities on-site at Fred Hutch.

The rich biostatistics environment at the center includes over 70 PhD-level biostatisticians (member-track faculty and staff scientists) across the Clinical Research, Public Health Sciences, and Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Divisions. Biostatisticians across the center also engage in collaborative and independent statistical research, including efforts with coordinating and statistical and data management centers for the Women’s Health Initiative, the SWOG Cancer Research Network, the Cancer Screening Research Network, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, and the HIV Prevention Trials Network.

Fred Hutch is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.

With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy, and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures for the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.

At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities makes us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.

Qualifications

Applicants must have a PhD or foreign equivalent in statistics, biostatistics or a related field.

The ideal candidate will have a record of and primary interest in statistical methodology and collaborative statistical research as demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications and funding.

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability (physical or mental), marital or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, or membership in any other legally protected class. We desire priority referrals of protected veterans. If due to a disability you need assistance/and or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources at [e-mail] or by calling 206-667-4700.

The annual base salary range for this position is from $188,995 to $194,664 for faculty hired at the Assistant Professor level, from $214,681 to $223,268 for faculty hired at the Associate Professor level, and from $246,225 to $338,560 for faculty hired at the Full Professor level.

Pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications. Pay for Faculty positions is based on a variety of factors, including degree, specialty, clinical practice and experience. Faculty without credited time in rank will generally start at the entry rate for their relevant specialty and rank. This position is eligible for relocation assistance or a sign-on bonus.

Fred Hutch offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (22 days per year), paid sick leave (up to 30 calendar days per occurrence of a qualifying reason), paid holidays (up to 13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks), and partially paid sabbatical leave (up to 12 months).