SPECTRAFORCE

Data Scientist

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This role is for a Data Scientist II in North Chicago, IL (Hybrid) for 6 months, offering a pay rate of "TBD." Requires a Master's or PhD with 3-5 years in clinical research analytics, proficiency in R, Python, and advanced ML/NLP techniques.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 4, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
North Chicago, IL
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Databases #Python #R #ML (Machine Learning) #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Data Science #NLP (Natural Language Processing)
Role description
Position Title: Data Scientist II Work Location: North Chicago, IL (Hybrid) Assignment Duration: 6 months Position Summary: Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions. Key Responsibilities: • Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions. • Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized. • In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights. • Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine. • Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development. • Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses. • Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members. • Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior. Qualification & Experience: • Masters or PhD with 3-5 years experience. • 3-5 years of analytics related experience in clinical research. Experience with clinical data preferred. • Advanced career level proficiency in R and Python or other statistical packages. • Expert proficiency with Machine Learning, NLP, and other advanced analytics techniques. • 1+ years experience with agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, OpenAI agents, etc. (including orchestration with tool-use), LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines (RAG).