Data Scientist I/II - Ophthalmology Bio-Analytics

Character Biosciences; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity incentives

Medical insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k)

PTO

Job summary

Character Biosciences is seeking a Data Scientist, I/II, to join our Data Science team in a hybrid role based in Jersey City, NJ. You will analyze medical and life-science data to identify therapeutic targets and inform trial design, leveraging multimodality datasets and real-world data.

The role reports to the Director of Biostatistics and involves cross-functional collaboration, model development, pipeline improvements, and scientific publication contributions.

Qualifications

• PhD in Statistics, Data Science or a related technical field.
• 1–3 years of professional experience applying statistical and data science methods to real-world healthcare data (e.g., claims, EMR, or other observational data).
• Hands-on experience analyzing biomedical imaging data, ideally retinal imaging such as OCT, fundus autofluorescence, or fundus photography.
• A strong statistician's grounding combined with hands-on software skills: comfortable writing production-quality code.
• Python and/or R code and leveraging modern AI tools to implement analyses.
• Deep knowledge of machine learning and statistical methods, including survival/time-to-event analysis, mixed-effects modeling, and Bayesian methods.
• Experience developing longitudinal models on biomedical data, particularly real-world data including EMRs and/or claims data.
• Experience developing and implementing data analysis software modules and tools as part of data pipelines and to enable interactive analysis.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on using data to drive action and decision making.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work cross functionally in a team-oriented environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the implementation of models and analyses to support Character Bio's drug discovery and development activities, including quantitative biomarker from imaging and phenotype development, disease progression and time-to-event (survival) modeling, and real-world-data analyses
• Partner with the clinical development and biostatistics team on pre-specified and exploratory analyses to bring our real-world data to bear on trial design and interpretation
• Collaborate on cross-functional analyses with members of the genomics, clinical research, and biology teams.
• Develop and implement improvements and extensions to Character's data platform including analytic pipeline modules and interactive analysis tools across both our AMD and glaucoma programs.
• Contribute to Character's data and analytics strategic planning and roadmap
• Contribute to scientific publications and the communication of Character's data science work to internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Python

R

Survival analysis

Longitudinal modeling

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication

Education

PhD in Statistics or Data Science

Tools

OCT imaging analysis

EMR/Claims data analysis

Job description

Character Biosciences is seeking a Data Scientist, I/II, to join our Data Science team in a hybrid role based in Jersey City, NJ. You will analyze medical and life-science data to identify therapeutic targets and inform trial design, leveraging multimodality datasets and real-world data.

The role reports to the Director of Biostatistics and involves cross-functional collaboration, model development, pipeline improvements, and scientific publication contributions.