Healthcare Senior Data Scientist

Are you a motivated team player, with a combination of analytical, research, technical and communication skills? Would you like to join a dynamic health-tech company leveraging cutting-edge technology to deliver life-changing solutions that directly impact cancer and rare disease patients worldwide?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, join the SOPHiA GENETICS Biostatistics team in Pessac as our Healthcare Senior Data Scientist, and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

Our mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your mission

As our Healthcare Senior Data Scientist, you will help solve the problems faced by hospitals and biopharmaceutical partners in innovative and effective ways. You will carry out explanatory and predictive statistical studies using multimodal and longitudinal data. You will then present your results using clear and engaging language to make them understandable to a non-specialized public. You will also participate in the deployment of machine learning / deep learning models into production.  

The value you bring

• Carry out statistical studies to explain/predict clinical outcomes using multimodal data in patients treated for cancer  

• Use cutting-edge machine learning/deep learning methods to develop multimodal predictors intended for use by pharmaceutical companies and clinicians 

• Help the team to write statistical analysis plans and detailed analysis reports for stakeholders 

• Present your statistical results to a specialist or non-specialist audience (e.g., clinicians, data science team or IT team)  

• Participate in the team’s research activities to both improve our findings and suggest new areas for development  
• Work closely with medical and IT team to translate models and algorithms into engineered production applications 

• Engineer / Master 2 / PhD in Machine Learning, Biostatistics or Applied Statistics  

• At least 3 years of experience as a Data Scientist  

• A solid background in the development of machine learning/deep learning models for solving important large and complex problems  

• Expert in Python (R is a plus)  

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure 

• The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary research team, plus the motivation and discipline to carry out autonomous research 

• Proficiency in English 

• Experience/Interest in the healthcare industry, especially in oncology, would be an asset 

You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

• Business recognition and accolades include: 
• World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
• World's smartest companies (Top 50) 
• 100 Best Places to Work in Boston 
• Top 10 European Tech Startup
• Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
• Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

An exciting company mission that brings together science and technology to directly impact the lives of patients with life-threatening illness. 

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in-line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview:

• Forfait-Jour working types
• Health benefits for you and your family covered by 80% employer contributions
• Life Insurance and pensions contribution
• SWILE meal vouchers and home office allowances
• 25 Days Vacation
• Additional voluntary benefits including sports allowance, language courses, bank partnerships and transportation.

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous 

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action.

We decide; We do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal

The Process 

Apply now with your CV and any supporting information. 

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.

We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.

Location: Pessac, France (outside of Bordeaux)

Contract: Permanent