
Senior Data Scientist
Advarra
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $91,524 - $167,794 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Focus on understanding existing models, assessing their performance, selecting optimal architectures, and fine-tuning them to meet specific domain and business needs
- Collaborate closely with data engineering, product, and domain teams to translate real-world research challenges into scalable, model-driven solutions
- Optimize and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) and domain-specific variants using proprietary datasets
- Evaluate model performance across key metrics and benchmarks
- Implement and operationalize LLM-based and retrieval-augmented systems that enhance Braid-powered products
- Assess and select models that best align with domain-specific requirements
- Partner with clinical and operational experts to translate research and trial challenges into measurable model evaluation frameworks
Requirements
- MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related quantitative discipline
- 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and fine-tuning ML or LLM models
- Demonstrated expertise in Python, with experience and knowledge of a commercial framework like PyTorch
- Hands-on experience developing, managing, and troubleshooting workflows within Databricks for data engineering, analytics, and machine learning projects
- Documented strong understanding of the ML lifecycle
- Experience with embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Benefits
- Health coverage
- Paid holidays
- Variable bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learninglarge language modelsmodel fine-tuningPythonPyTorchembeddingsretrieval-augmented generationML lifecycledata engineeringanalytics
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationresearch translationperformance assessment
Certifications
MS in Machine LearningMS in Computer Science