
Associate Director, Data Science and Digital Health – Neuroscience
Johnson & Johnson
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cambridge • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $137,000 - $235,750 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Partner with cross-functional teams (e.g., disease subject-matter-experts, data scientists, statisticians, precision measures leads and clinicians) on (a) study design, development and validation of algorithms and analysis pipelines for digital health data; (b) application and development of novel modeling techniques to combine digital health data with imaging, blood-based biomarkers and real world data to enable precision neuroscience.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support strategic roadmaps that integrate digital health solutions throughout the patient journey, ensuring clinical relevance and patient-centered outcomes.
- Contribute to evidence packages to support regulatory qualifications of digital endpoints and tools.
- Partner with regulatory and medical affairs to engage health authorities and payers on the acceptance of digital health approaches.
- Ensure validation and compliance with evolving global regulatory and data privacy standards.
- Partner with cross functional team to integrate digital health technologies into trial and ensure high standard in data capture, integration, and interoperability of digital solutions.
- Represent the organization in external consortia, conferences, and collaborations to influence digital health standards in neuroscience.
Requirements
- Advanced degree (PhD, MD or equivalent) in neuroscience / quantitative sciences such as biomedical engineering, data science, biostatistics or a related field
- 6 years of experience in regulated environment such as pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device
- Experience in clinical development, digital health or outcome assessments, with demonstrated expertise in neuroscience preferred
- Strong track record in developing and validating digital health tools, clinical endpoints, or biomarkers, ideally with regulatory interactions and familiarity with industry leading validation frameworks and relevant regulatory guidelines
- Familiarity with data standards, privacy regulations, and regulatory qualification pathways for digital measures
- Hands on experience in advanced analytical methodologies, including machine learning and statistical modeling of digital health data such as speech and sensor data and/or neuroimaging
- Knowledge in multimodal data integration and modeling of disease progression trajectories is a plus
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and/or R with experience in commonly used data science and machine learning libraries
- Prior experience working with cloud-base system and/or open platforms for data science preferred
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Track records of scientific contributions (presentations and publications) in this field is required.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance
- consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- savings plan (401(k))
- Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
advanced analytical methodologiesmachine learningstatistical modelingdigital health toolsclinical endpointsbiomarkersdata integrationPythonRneuroimaging
Soft Skills
communicationcollaboration
Certifications
PhDMD