Data Scientist, Public Health Analytics & Modeling

Guidehouse; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Transit and Parking Benefits

Tuition Reimbursement, Certifications

Employee Referral Program

Employee Assistance Program

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Scientist to provide analytical and technical support for data science activities on-site at NIH campuses in Bethesda, MD or Baltimore, MD. Responsibilities include data acquisition, cleaning, transformation, integration, statistical analysis, visualization, and machine learning model development.

You will develop reproducible pipelines, dashboards, and decision-support products while collaborating with subject-matter experts, researchers, data engineers, program

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in data science, analytics, or research support.
• Experience using Python and/or R to acquire, clean, transform, analyze, and visualize data; support statistical analyses and ML models; develop reproducible workflows.
• Familiarity with NLP, Generative AI, LLMs, time series analysis, or other advanced data science techniques.
• Strong skills in data analysis, data presentation, and documentation.
• Experience writing SOPs and contributing to technical or research documentation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD public trust; active public trust preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collect, clean, integrate, and validate data from diverse sources.
• Work with large and complex data sets.
• Support reproducible analytical pipelines and model testing.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and decision-support products.
• Create reproducible data pipelines, workflows, and models.
• Conduct exploratory, descriptive, predictive, and inferential analyses.
• Apply statistical and ML methods to NIH research objectives.
• Produce visualizations and presentations for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with researchers, data engineers, program managers, and IT professionals.
• Support data governance, privacy, and responsible use of sensitive information.
• Contribute to data standards, metadata, and reproducible research practices.
• Monitor analytics products for accuracy and relevance.
• Stay updated with new data science methods and tools.

Skills

Python

R

Data analysis

Data visualization

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

NLP familiarity

SOPs writing

Documentation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face

OpenAI API

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Data Scientist to provide analytical and technical support for data science activities on-site at NIH campuses in Bethesda, MD or Baltimore, MD. Responsibilities include data acquisition, cleaning, transformation, integration, statistical analysis, visualization, and machine learning model development.

You will develop reproducible pipelines, dashboards, and decision-support products while collaborating with subject-matter experts, researchers, data engineers, program