To expand our team at NEC OncoImmunity (NOI), we are looking for a data scientist

Job description

As a Data Scientist at NOI, you will: 

• Develop, implement, optimize, and evaluate ML and other statistical models of relevant biological processes for personalized cancer treatments, infectious disease, and other preventative and therapeutic treatments
• Establish frameworks using techniques such as pretraining for integrating high-quality, proprietary pre-clinical and clinical datasets with noisy, public data to create well-calibrated prediction models
• Evaluate results from pre-clinical and clinical-stage projects, and prepare reports and presentations describing appropriate methodologies and findings for colleagues and external collaborators
• Facilitate communication and cross-pollination between the data science, infectious disease, and other teams at NOI

Your profile:

• Located in Norway or Germany, or willing to relocate to one of them
• A degree of higher education (or close to graduating) in data science or another a relevant field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• Experience with exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, developing and testing machine learning models
• Experience with machine learning frameworks, data analysis tools, and numerical tools (such as scikit-learn, xgboost/LightGBM, Tensorflow, Keras, numpy, pandas/polars, Matplotlib/seaborn/Plotly)
• Proficiency or interest in learning Linux and common software management tools: git, cloud infrastructure, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (the working language of the company)
• The ability to work individually and with others with a variety of scientific and technological backgrounds

Bonus:

• Experience or familiarity with virology, immunology, epidemiology, or related fields
• Experience with software engineering best practices such as code quality, version control and repository hygiene, code reviews, and unit testing
• Experience with deep learning approaches such as RNNs, CNNs, GNNs, and transformers
• Experience with explainable AI methods such as prototype learning and counterfactual reasoning

What we offer

• An exciting working environment at the forefront of AI applied in infectious diseases and cancer immunotherapy research
• A highly diverse and interdisciplinary team
• Negotiable salary based on your level of experience
• Possibilities for further professional development
• Work in an international environment
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid office model
• Social and team-building activities
• Work that has a positive impact on people’s health

How to apply?  

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