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Abbott Senior Data Scientist in Alameda, California

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

  • Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

  • An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position is based in our Alameda, CA location within the ADC Division. Our mission is to empower people with diabetes to manage their health through innovative products that deliver precise data for better decision-making. We're transforming glucose monitoring with our cutting-edge sensing technology. Staff Data Scientist works as integral part of a collaborative team and responsible for analyzing data, drawing insights, and presenting results in a cohesive, intuitive, and simple manner to the functional stakeholders utilizing technologies to collect, clean, analyze, predict, and effectively communicate insights. Key functional stakeholders include Research & Development, Commercial, and Operations.

What You’ll Work On

  • Analyze data, draw insights, and present results in a cohesive, intuitive, and simple manner to functional stakeholder.

  • Utilize technologies to collect, clean, analyze, predict, and effectively communicate insights such as model logic and restrictions.

  • Able to examine data sets and determine the best end-to-end analysis plan to address key business questions and proactively identifies opportunities for significant operational, process or system level product improvements for the business partner.

  • Conduct advanced statistical analysis to determine trends and significant data relationships.

  • Develop machine learning models to apply test data algorithms to future data.

  • Validate models/analytical techniques, and develop algorithms to execute analytical functions.

  • Works with stakeholders to define business questions, requirements, timelines, objectives, and success criteria to address need.

  • Work closely with the functional stakeholders to understand the domain and iteratively refine analyses.

  • Provide learning and educational pathways for team members.

  • Provides input into developing departmental and site processes and procedures.

  • Guide and otherwise contribute to technical teams in development, deployment and application of applied analytics, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, etc.

  • Independently manages and consults in multiple complex projects working with stakeholders to define business questions, requirements, timelines, objectives, and success criteria to address needs.

  • Experience in creating and advanced statistics such as: regression, time-series forecasting, clustering, decision trees, exploratory data analysis methodology, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, optimization, unstructured data analysis, and neural networks.

  • Researches and adapts existing open-source algorithms when possible, and develops novel techniques when needed.

Required Qualifications

  • B.S. in In Life or Physical Science, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering or closely related discipline is preferred.

  • 4-6 years’ work-related experience with degree or sufficient transferable experience to demonstrate functional equivalence to a degree.

  • Advanced Experience with programming scripts such as Python, Java, Scala, C++ in Linux/Unix, and R.

  • Experience in applying data analysis techniques to a large set of data using big data systems such as Hadoop, Spark, MongoDB, or similar software.

  • Advanced analytics knowledge and application in the field of: Statistics, Mathematical programming.

  • Business acumen and experience with operational or strategic systems.

  • Prior experience in customer and/or clinical analytics is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

  • M.S. in related discipline

Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott , and on Twitter @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 – $218,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com

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