Job Description

Data Science Engineer - Intern



Primary Location: Durham, North Carolina, United States Full time R1184079 Date Posted: 04/06/2021

Job description

The Data Science Engineer will be part of Clinical Data Analytics group building the next generation of smart clinical ML apps in Human Data Science Cloud (HDSC) as SaaS. This provides an opportunity to get in on the ground floor level of something new and exciting for an industry working with the latest and greatest technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Build scalable microservice based ML model serving APIs
ETL data pipelines and training of ML models
Automate end to end MLOps from raw data to model hosting APIs utilizing workflow orchestration tools
Working with wide variety of data coming from various Clinical systems
Participate in cutting edge research using tools such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Robotic Process Automation amongst other capabilities.
Help develop software and algorithms and build new cognitive computing platforms for areas such as sensors and tracking systems, machine learning algorithms and models, workflow and automation through to new areas such as virtual assistants and AI in IoT to enhance our Artificial Intelligence functionality.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
Strong research and innovation skills and ability to solve difficult machine vision and learning problems and transferring business problems into AI use cases and requirements.
Strong working knowledge in Hadoop eco system like PySpark, Hive, Impala, Kafka.
Cloud services experience with Azure or AWS
Experience working with large volumes of complex data, preferably in distributed frameworks such as Spark, SparkR and PySpark.
Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, Scala or Java.
Exposure working with PostgreSQL, Oracle or MySQL.
Experience handling data files, data cleansing, light ETL, SQL, analytics
Experience working in a Linux/Unix environment
Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes is a plus.
Strong communication and teamwork skills.
Flexibility and adaptability to work in a growing dynamic team in a highly visible role.

MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Pursuing a masters degree or bachelors degree in Computer Science, Applied Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other qualitative discipline with some modules in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science, Deep Learning or other related fields.
Strong mathematical/computing science background with strong knowledge in at least one of the following fields: Cognitive Science, Advanced Semantic Design, Information Extraction, Information retrieval, Probabilistic Decision Marking, or similar.

DESIRED ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Someone who is passionate about AI and can show examples of their skills utilizing open-source capabilities that they can show as part of that passion;
The freedom to use your talent and background to help us make noise in the industry quickly
Knowledge in some of the following areas:
o Optical Character Recognition utilizing character recognition tools to convert images, PDFs and other document types into digitally recognized structure with meta-tagging;
o Machine Learning - deep learning, online learning, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, structured/unstructured learning;
o Natural language processing - NLTK/OpenNLP, StanfordNLP, Translation, Semantic Ontology, Natural Language understanding/generation;
o Robotic Process Automation virtual worker process builds, script generation utilizing AI tool sets

At IQVIA, we believe in pushing the boundaries of human science and data science to make the biggest impact possible to help our customers create a healthier world. The advanced analytics, technology solutions and contract research services we provide to the life sciences industry are made possible by our 67,000+ employees around the world who apply their insight, curiosity and intellectual courage every step of the way. Learn more at jobs.iqvia.com.

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