SFL Scientific is expanding our data science consulting team and we are seeking senior and lead data scientists to design and build end-to-end approaches and ML/AI solutions across healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, medical devices, and other industries.

This position is currently remote due to COVID guidelines and precautions. The ideal candidate will be available in the Greater Boston Area in 2022.

ROLE:
Work on complex and R&D type data science problems with organizations of all sizes and across industries. Work with other data scientists, data engineers, architects, and strategists to help detect cancer, understand population health, detect emotion and extract unstructured text meaning, predict crop yields and save resources, detect defects in infrastructure and equipment, predict failures in electrical systems, and sometimes take it a little lighter and predict the best player line-ups for major sports teams. Being a data scientist allows you to be a consultant at SFL Scientific, helping clients solve problems with data first and foremost and work on many varied and skill-expanding projects throughout the year.

The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to manage projects, provide thought leadership, and act as an autonomous member of the SFL Scientific team. The role of the Senior Data Scientist will include the entire workflow of a data science project: From ensuring data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing to the cleaning, visualizing, analyzing, predicting with the data, and creation of a final product or pipeline. 

• Apply extensive technical, machine learning, and analytical background experience to develop strategic AI programs

• Apply state of the art methods to complex problems, including deep learning utilizing, GANs, CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, BERT, etc.

• Iterate on and/or create repeatable, reusable processes and scalable data systems that meet technical and deployment challenges

• Demonstrate highly proficient writing and presentation skills to develop briefings, responses, documents, business plans, and reports.

• Maintain contemporary expertise on new data science methods, technologies, industry trends and open source packages

• Work with our technical team of PhD data scientists & engineers to help ensure project delivery and success.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Master’s or Ph.D. preferred in STEM field, high proficiency in Artificial Intelligence and related engineering technologies

• Proficient in core programming languages, such as: Python, R, C/C++, and auxiliary sets/tools - Keras, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

• Experience with deploying machine learning models and cloud services environments, AWS, Azure, etc.

• Track record of developing deep learning-based systems, AI optimization, and deployment for data science applications

BENEFITS:
Base salary, performance bonus/compensation, medical coverage, 401k plan, paid time off (vacation, personal/sick, parental, etc.), flexible work-schedule, on-going industry training, and other company-wide perks.
 

GROWTH:
Have a complete view of a growing consulting firm in a novel, technical field, working in a highly collaborative and responsive environment with high-profile Fortune 100 partners and clients. The candidate has the opportunity to shape how the data science team functions within SFL Scientific as the company expands based on client performance, project delivery, and technical solution development to advance objectives and solve real use cases. This is an opportunity for a senior scientist to help develop leadership practices, develop novel AI tools and services, advance professionally and take ownership with a cohesive team of engineers, consultants, and scientists to support AI development and services efforts.