Junior Data Scientist

Black Canyon Consulting; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k)

Paid holidays

Vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) seeks a Junior Data Scientist to support research data analysis, dissemination, and scientific programming related to critical illness and infectious diseases. You will design data pipelines, develop ETL processes, apply NLP/ML methods to health data, and collaborate with clinical experts to ensure high data quality and actionable insights.

The role emphasizes building robust data infrastructure and translating complex results for non-technical stakeholders in a

Qualifications

• Experience with NLP/ML in health data preferred.
• Ability to translate findings for clinical collaborators.
• Strong data quality and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Develop NLP/ML workflows to extract structured information from unstructured data.
• Collaborate with clinicians and researchers to ensure data-driven insights.

Skills

Python

R

NLP

LLM prompts

Healthcare analytics

Communication

Collaboration

Data quality

Tools

SQL

Relational DBMS

ETL

Job description

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Junior Data Scientist. This position supports research data analysis, dissemination, and scientific programming activities related to critical illness, infectious diseases, and related conditions of high national priority..

Job Description

The Data Engineer will design, implement, maintain, and optimize data pipelines, APIs, data transformation workflows, and supporting infrastructure. This position will work with databases, data lakes, data warehouses, feature stores, and other data platforms to ensure information can be efficiently ingested, transformed, accessed, and used by analytical and AI-enabled systems.

The Data Engineer will also develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes, feature engineering workflows, and service layers that expose data or model endpoints to downstream systems and applications.

Required Skills

• Expertise in R or Python for statistical analysis and data manipulation
• Experience using NLP techniques including named entity recognition, text classification, or information extraction to process data
• Experience with LLM prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM fine-tuning to extract structured information from unstructured data
• Working knowledge of standard machine learning methods relevant to health data
• Ability to critically evaluate AI/ML methods for appropriateness, bias, and validity in a clinical research context
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to translate technical findings for clinical/non-technical collaborators
• Ability to work collaboratively with physician and clinical subject matter experts
• Detail-oriented, with strong data quality assurance habits
• Strong analytical, organizational, and time-management abilities
• Working knowledge of MS Office Suite
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational database management systems (DBMS)

Preferred Skills

• Experience with common NLP/ML libraries
• Familiarity with clinical NLP tools or frameworks
• Experience with vector databases or embedding-based retrieval for text/document search
• Version control and documentation experience
• Familiarity with administrative claims and/or EHR data
• Prior experience in an academic, clinical, or biomedical research setting
• Understanding of data privacy and regulatory requirements relevant to health data

Benefits and Salary

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan with employer contribution
• paid holidays
• vacation
• tuition reimbursement

As set forth in Black Canyon Consulting’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.