Principal Data Scientist, AI-assisted Clinical Development

Genentech

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TL;DR · Principal Data Scientist, AI-assisted Clinical Development

The Principal Data Scientist (AI-assisted Clinical Development) joins the Innovation Accelerator team to build and deploy AI/ML-powered digital solutions for medicine development. This role involves partnering with product managers and software engineers to design, test, and scale statistical capabilities that unlock insights from clinical, operational, and real-world data. Key responsibilities include developing advanced statistical methods, designing simulation studies, and building scalable pipelines for model training and deployment in regulated environments. The candidate will utilize Python, R, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch to optimize model performance and mitigate bias in generative AI components. The work focuses on translating complex scientific considerations into software requirements, ensuring traceability and compliance while addressing technical challenges in biomedical, clinical, and digital health domains through Bayesian methods, causal inference, and high-dimensional data analysis.

What does a Data Scientist earn?

Median $173200 from 338 postings across 66 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the development of advanced statistical and machine learning methods for clinical development tools.
  • Design and productize simulation studies to evaluate innovative trial designs and statistical frameworks.
  • Translate complex scientific requirements into software specifications for model development and validation.
  • Develop scalable, reproducible pipelines for data processing, model training, and deployment in regulated environments.
  • Optimize model performance while ensuring algorithmic fairness and mitigating bias or drift in deployed systems.
  • Co-lead the architectural design of ML and GenAI systems to ensure traceability, compliance, and explainability.
  • Partner with engineering and UX teams to integrate predictive models into real-world user applications.
  • Publish and present novel methodologies in high-impact internal and external scientific venues.

What we're looking for

  • Master’s or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of experience applying advanced statistical and ML techniques in biomedical, clinical, or digital health domains.
  • Proven expertise in model development, simulation studies, and decision-support frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with Python or R and ML libraries such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
  • Experience building pipelines for training, evaluating, and deploying ML solutions in production environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise with RWD, Bayesian methods, decision theory, high-dimensional data, or causal inference.
  • Experience leading technical design or mentoring junior team members (preferred).
  • Experience applying Agile software development practices, ideally for a product embedding statistical algorithms and/or GenAI (preferred).

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