Data Scientist - AI/ML

Stanford Health Care; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford Health Care is seeking a Data Scientist to join a team delivering AI-enabled care workflows across patient care, medical research and operations. The role reports to the Data Science Director and collaborates with Stanford Medicine’s Chief Data Scientist to deploy safe, cost-effective AI in healthcare.

Responsibilities include building, deploying, and maintaining ML-enabled care workflows, evaluating data science tools, and training models on hospital data with bias checks and QC.

Qualifications

• PhD/MS degree in statistics, informatics or related field.
• Experience developing, evaluating and implementing ML models.
• Experience collaborating with clinicians and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy and maintain AI/ML-enabled care workflows.
• Evaluate tools/platforms used to manage ML model lifecycles from healthcare data.
• Train and validate researcher-built or vendor ML algorithms on hospital data with quality control and bias assessment.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

ML models development

Cloud environments

Clinical collaboration

Statistics

Communication skills

Software development knowledge

Education

PhD in statistics, informatics or related field

MS in statistics, informatics or related field

Job description

Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

Locations

Stanford Health Care

A Brief Overview

The Data Scientist will be part of a team building Stanford Health Care's (SHC) solutions incorporating Artificial Intelligence including providing health care solutions in the areas of patient care, medical research and administrative services. This group is designed to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI), and other emerging machine learning (ML) based innovations in data science into healthcare and will partner closely with individuals across clinical specialties and operations areas to deploy algorithms that can lead to better patient outcomes.

Reporting to the Data Science Director and working closely with Stanford Medicine's inaugural Chief Data Scientist, this role is responsible for developing AI solutions - from predictive algorithms to agentic systems - into healthcare in a safe, ethical and cost-effective manner.

What you will do

• Build, deploy and maintain AI and ML enabled care workflows. This includes working with others at SHC to design and develop solutions to the problems undertaken by the Data Science group.
• Evaluate tools, platforms and strategies used by the Data Science group to manage the lifecycle of building models from healthcare data.
• Train, develop, and validate researcher-built or vendor provided machine learning algorithms on hospital data with strong quality control checks and bias assessments.

Education Qualifications

• PhD/MS degree in statistics, informatics or related field

Experience Qualifications

• PhD: Experience preferred
• MS Degree: 4+ years of related experience with applied problems

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to write code in SQL, R, or Python for processing large datasets in distributed cloud environments, and experience in processing and analyzing healthcare data.
• Experience developing, evaluating, and implementing machine learning models.
• Experience working with clinicians and researchers across disciplines to develop approaches for use in clinical care.
• Experience working in cloud environments or working in a healthcare organization.
• Graduate level understanding of techniques in machine learning, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence along with a strong understanding of statistics.
• Knowledge of software development, machine learning, and technology infrastructure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, along with demonstrated creativity and latitude in problem solving, including the ability to prioritize and execute multiple competing tasks.

Physical Demands and Work Conditions

Blood Borne Pathogens

• Category II - Tasks that involve NO exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: