The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) aims to solve society's toughest challenges, including eradicating disease. To achieve this, CZI is generating unprecedented scientific datasets to drive biological modeling innovation and accelerate scientific progress. The Senior Staff Data Scientist will lead the creation of groundbreaking imaging datasets to decode cellular function, describe development, and predict responses to genetic or environmental changes, ultimately transforming the understanding of human biology and advancing disease cure, prevention, and management.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience with large scale biological imaging data.
- Demonstrated delivery of multiple large biological data products.
- Experience with big data: extraction, transport, loading, databases, standardization, validation, QC, and analysis.
- Experience with processing and orchestration pipelines, such as Argo Workflows, Databricks
- Strong fundamentals in statistical reasoning and machine learning.
- Experience with biological data analysis and QC best practices
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary environment (engineering, product, AI Research).
Responsibilities
- Define the technical strategy for a robust imaging data ecosystem and build data ingestion pipelines, define data formats, write validation tools, QC metrics, and analysis pipelines.
- Collaborate with ML engineers, AI Researchers, and Data Engineers to iteratively evaluate, refine and grow datasets to maximize model performance.
- Discover and define new data generation opportunities, and manage the delivery of those data products to our AI team.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, UX designers, and other data scientists to publish valuable datasets as part of CZI's open data ecosystem.
Other
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Enthusiasm to ramp up on technologies and learn new domains.
- This role is a hybrid position requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month, approximately 3 days a week, with specific in-office days determined by the team’s manager.
- Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving to the Bay Area
