
Associate Data Scientist
Amgen
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Deerfield • California • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $86,120 - $115,586 per year
About the role
- Using and developing data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence capabilities across Amgen’s commercial organization
- Transforming business, medical, or scientific questions into analytical ones and mapping out solutions, delivery, and impact
- Identifying business needs and proposing potential analytical approaches for solutions
- Building high-performance algorithms, prototypes, predictive models, and proof of concepts using Python or R with reliable performance, interpretability, and action-ability
- Effectively communicating cross-functionally with stakeholders to develop appropriate methodology to answer specific business questions
- Helping further build the team, including by contributing ideas and standard methodologies and keeping abreast of developments in industry and academia
- Communicating effectively and influencing a diverse set of technical, scientific, medical, and business constituents at the functional and executive levels
- Creating powerful stories in PowerPoint, with knowledge of MS Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint)
- Assuring compliance with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements as it relates to data assets
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree OR Associate’s degree and 4 years of experience in a quantitative field OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of experience in a quantitative field
- Experience in designing, evaluating, and applying a variety of supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to drive business value
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and/or R
- Experience with data science and machine learning-related libraries in Python (Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, NumPy, PyTorch, MLib, etc)
- Highly motivated with eagerness to learn and adapt to new subjects
- Technical aptitude with strong logical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Excellent organization/planning skills and talent for managing many large and complex datasets
- Ability to collaborate and influence business partners and other IS resources to drive analytic projects end-to-end
- Ability to communicate analysis in a clear, precise, and impactful manner
- Familiarity with the modern data stack: distributed computing tools (Spark, Hive, etc.), cloud computing environments, and source code control technologies (e.g. Git)
- Passion for learning and staying on top of current developments in data science
- Biotech / Pharma industry experience
Benefits
- A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
- Group medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models where possible
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Hard Skills & Tools
data sciencemachine learningartificial intelligencePythonRSQLsupervised machine learningunsupervised machine learningpredictive modelingdata analysis
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makingorganizationplanninginfluenceadaptabilitymotivationcreativity