Data Scientist III

Inside Higher Ed; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A higher education institution in Gainesville, FL is seeking a Data Scientist III. This role involves assisting in biomedical AI research projects through data analysis and machine learning model development. The ideal candidate should have a background in data science or a related field, and experience in maintaining databases, collaborating with various stakeholders, and working with Python. A Bachelor's degree and relevant work experience are required for this full-time position.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, or similar field and five years of experience.
• Master's Degree in data science and three years of experience.
• Doctoral Degree and one year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a large cell and tissue microscopy image database.
• Collaborate with national and international researchers.
• Develop and validate machine learning models.

Skills

Experience with data integration and processing

Strong experience with computer vision (CV)

Expertise in Python

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to work independently and in a team

Education

Bachelor's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, or related field

Master's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, or related field

Tools

Python

Digital Slide Archive tool

Job description

Job Overview

Job No: 536880
Work Type: Full Time
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Biology/Life Science, Computer Science, Grant or Research Administration
Department: 29051308 - MD-MED QUANTITATIVE HEALTH

Classification Title: Data Scientist III

Classification Minimum Requirements: A Bachelor's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and five years of experience; Master\'s Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and three years of experience; Doctoral Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and one year of experience.

Expected Salary: $82,000 - $85,000 Annually

Job Description

The Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology is seeking a full time Data Scientist III. An Artificial Intelligence and Data Scientist III will assist in multiple ongoing and future biomedical microcopy artificial intelligence research projects by (1) performing data analyses, processing, and feature extraction, and developing data tools for accelerating research; (2) developing and validating a variety of machine learning/deep learning models with heterogenous cell and tissue imaging data. They will ensure data and model quality, integrity, and robustness, and will contribute to scientific publications related to healthcare/imaging AI research.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a large cell and tissue microscopy image database (murine and human) as well as corresponding clinical biometrics data and healthcare outcome
• Actively collaborate and coordinate with many national and international collaborators to ingest data, and maintain the database using careful metadata standards, including sample preparation, imaging, as well digital parameters
• Maintain the derived data, such as annotations, as well as other results obtained from the raw data
• Work with collaborators, students, partners on demand and share the data as needed
• Maintain a description of data in hand as part of a database
• Maintain the data via a cloud server using Digital Slide Achieve tool
• Develop and maintain end-user plugins for conducting detection, segmentation, and quantification of micro and macro anatomical structures in tissues, predictive modeling of diseases, as well as image and molecular omics data fusion
• Actively work with UF IT to ensure that the end-user customers are able to use these plugins without any service interruption. Provide needed support to end-users.
• Maintain a federated model to allow end-users to conduct computational analysis without data leaving their host servers
• Maintain a slack channel on the system, documentation, and version control for guiding end-users
• Develop and maintain tools for visualizing multi-omics data
• Actively work with UF IT to ensure that the end-user customers are able to use the visualization tool. Provide needed support to end-users.
• Maintain a slack channel, documentation, and version control for guiding end-users
• Communicating findings to project leaders and team
• Summarizing and visualizing results for inclusion in scientific publication
• Maintaining appropriate records of research methods and results and assisting in preparation of presentations and/or writing manuscripts

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and five years of experience; Master\'s Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and three years of experience; Doctoral Degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, analytics, or similar field and one year of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clean, well-documented coding style
• Experience with data integration and processing, analysis, and reporting
• Experience in digital pathology, computational pathology, imaging, and image analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Demonstrated ability to achieve high-performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion, be adaptable to various competing demands, and demonstrate the highest level of customer/client service and response
• Forward-thinking mentality, actively seeking opportunities and proposing creative solutions with strong decision-making capability
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders and critical staff, both internally and externally, through a variety of communication mediums and venues
• Excellent ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders across functions to optimize performance and drive projects to completion, including working directly with university and senior leadership to achieve project goals
• Expertise in Python, at least medium level of understanding in ML pipeline development with open-sourced Python packages and libraries
• A Bachelor\'s Degree in computer science, statistics, biomedical engineering, or related field and two years of experience; A Master\'s Degree in computer science, statistics, biomedical engineering, or related field
• Proficient in Digital & Computational Pathology, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Image Processing and Analysis
• Strong experience with computer vision (CV) or natural language processing (NLP) using deep learning
• Experience with patient health data
• Experience managing large-scale databases and data repositories
• Track record of academic research and/or scientific publications

Special Instructions To Applicants

This is a time-limited position. In order to be considered, you must upload your resume. This requisition has been reposted. Previous applicants are still under consideration and need not apply. Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.

Closing Information

Applications Close: 03 March 2026

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: The University of Florida is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the U.S. The University of Florida is a public institution and is subject to all requirements under Florida Sunshine and Public Record laws. If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call 352-392-2477 or the Florida Relay System at 800-955-8771 (TDD) or visit Accessibility at UF.

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