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UW Department of Laboratory Medicine

Data Scientist

CompanyUW Department of Laboratory Medicine
Websiteuwhires.admin.washington.edu
RoleData Scientist
Typefull-time
Role taxonomyData / Analytics
SpecialtiesData Science
LocationSeattle, WA
Salary
Apply viaEmailnkrumm@uw.edu
Hiring notes
TechPythonAWS
Parsed locationsSeattle, WA
Posted bynkrumm
PostedApr 1, 2019
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

UW Department of Laboratory Medicine | Data Scientist | ONSITE (Seattle, WA) | Full-Time Our department maintains all clinical testing and laboratory operations at the UW Medical Center, from sample collection to analysis and final reporting. We employ over 900 people and handle 30 million tests each year. In parallel, we research, develop and operationalize novel diagnostics in genomics, mass spectrometry, flow cytometry and automated imaging. We are looking for a data scientist who will provide analytical and infrastructure support to our lab. You'll work with the department's faculty, laboratory staff and software programmers to develop our data warehouse, ETL/analysis pipelines and our front-end reporting tools. Our stack: Primarily R, python, and SQL. We run on mixed (HIPAA compliant) AWS and local infrastructure. ------------- Why UW Lab Medicine? ‣ You'll impact patient care through improvements to the quality, accuracy and precision of our laboratory tests. Our department prides itself in innovation and we are highly motivated to bring on new solutions that improve our clinical service. ‣ You'll gain experience with "real world", highly complex and interesting data directly from our laboratory and clinical data streams. ‣ You'll interface with a wide range of users and stakeholders, all of who are committed to the UW's "Patients are First" aim. ------------- Feel free to contact me at nkrumm@uw.edu with [hnjob] in the subject line or see our official listing at: https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default....