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Data Scientist II
 Spectraforce Technologies | |
 United States, Illinois, North Chicago | |
 Feb 03, 2026 | |
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Position Title: Data Scientist II
Work Location: North Chicago, IL (Hybrid) Assignment Duration: 6 months (possibility of extension) Position Summary: Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions. Key Responsibilities: * Connects with cross-functional teams to design work product and as an analytics consultant. Anticipates and identifies issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions. * Leads and helps establish the design principles and standards to ensure analytical work product is consistent across projects where appropriate and that user experience is optimized. * In addition to standard statistical methods, develops prototypes, test methods and algorithms. Leverages emerging statistical methodologies, ML and AI to drive innovative analytical solutions to create insights. * Enables data-driven insights to support of clinical development continuum, including precision medicine. * Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to functional quality standards. Stays abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies related to clinical development. * Identify business needs and support the creation of standard KPIs, reports, and statistical analyses. * Responsible for coaching and mentoring junior team members. * Work side by side with cross-functional teams as an analytics consultant to strategize on how analytics can help evaluate the progress of clinical trials, as well as facilitate discussions around emerging risks; Applies machine learning techniques to validate assumptions and predict future behavior. Qualification & Experience: * Masters or PhD with 3-5 years experience. * 3-5 years of analytics related experience in clinical research. Experience with clinical data preferred. * Advanced career level proficiency in R and Python or other statistical packages. * Expert proficiency with Machine Learning, NLP, and other advanced analytics techniques. * 1+ years experience with agentic frameworks such as LangGraph, OpenAI agents, etc. (including orchestration with tool-use), LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines (RAG). | |