Lead Data Scientist

About ARTIDIS

ARTIDIS is changing the way cancer is diagnosed and treated. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to create products that will assist doctors, clinicians, nurses and patients in conducting clinical studies and providing better healthcare. A Lead Data Scientist at ARTIDIS is expected to communicate and understand customer requirements. 

Job Purpose

As a Lead Data Scientist, you’ll be tasked to lead a team of data scientists and develop, deploy, and maintain machine learning models on a medical device and in the cloud.

Duties and Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

• Experience using Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) device and AFM measurement data as input features to supervised and unsupervised machine learning models  
• Experience in digital health and driving innovation in health care 
• Experience using NLP on unstructured health records – Preference for named entity recognition, span classification, and relationship extraction 
• Experience with computer vision and medical images – Preference for image segmentation, object recognition 
• Understanding of MLOps for automatic deployment, continuous training, and model monitoring – Preference for experience with model deployment on a medical device or edge-compute and cloud-based models 

• Experience leading and developing a team of data scientists  
• Experience hiring data scientists 
• Experience with the Python data stack (pandas, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, spaCy) 
• Writing documented, clear and efficient code 
• Understanding of how and why to use version control systems for code, data and models 
• Ability to design and implement requirements with long-term objectives in mind 
• Proactive way of thinking, communicating and working 
• Ability to work without supervision 
• High level of expression and comprehension of the English language 

Preferred

• Understanding regulations in the medical device and software fields (and their relevance to machine learning) 

Working conditions

Our work environment is a typical start-up with an intrinsically motivated international team. You will work in a highly motivated team and your work serves a highly meaningful purpose. We offer a great place for rapid advancement and a promising opportunity to learn and share know-how in a very agile environment. This position will require potential frequent traveling for the execution of experiments, on-site customer support or trouble shooting.

We are looking for a team player who appreciates direct communication and is willing to go the extra mile when required. The effort is rewarded with challenging tasks and the possibility to take responsibility. This position is located at our headquarters office in Basel, Switzerland and it comes with a competitive salary, a bonus, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for outstanding performance.