[Hiring] Research Scientist @University of Washington

🌍 Remote, USA 💹 Full-time 🕐 Posted Recently

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Role Description

Contribute to research design and training, leading, and/or mentoring junior staff.
Analyze and produce key estimates for assigned research team.
Assess all available relevant quantitative data from various sources.
Produce, critique, improve, and disseminate results.
Keep the team on track to meet deadlines and research objectives.
Build out a portfolio with several peer-reviewed papers.
Work collaboratively on multiple projects concurrently while meeting deadlines.
Stay current with recent scientific, engineering, and technical advances.

Exhibit command of the team's research areas, including methodology and its components.
Independently carry out quantitative analyses and participate in reciprocal research projects.
Interpret and vet results from junior staff, formulate conclusions, and inform team leaders.
Develop, quality check, and distribute complex datasets for epidemiological and statistical analyses.
Develop and implement new computational and statistical methods.
Write, test, and maintain code in R and adapt to additional programming languages as needed.
Assist in drafting presentations and manuscripts, and contribute to funding proposals.
Lead and co-author scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Maintain scientific awareness and intellectual agility with data, methods, and analytic techniques.
May lead and/or mentor junior staff.
Contribute ideas and content for internal and external training materials.
Contribute to research design.
Other duties as assigned that fall within reasonable scope of research team.

Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, quantitative social sciences, or related discipline plus four years' related experience.
Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications.

Growing peer network with solid command of engineering/technical areas.
Excellent analytic, critical thinking, and quantitative skills.
Results- and detail-oriented individual who can initiate and complete tasks under tight deadlines.
Experience devising and executing statistical modeling techniques.
Demonstrated ability to quickly recognize problems in results and identify root causes.
Ease in designing, executing, and troubleshooting code in one or more languages including R.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including a track record of success in coauthorship on multiple scientific papers.
Demonstrated ability to contribute to and sustain collaborations with external research teams.
Experience in working with large data sets and reliable data management strategies.
Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with a team.
A long-term interest in a Research Scientist position contributing to the overall mission of our research.

PhD in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, or quantitative social sciences plus two years’ experience preferred.
Experience with machine learning, data mining, and analytic techniques.
Experience mentoring and developing junior employees on soft and technical skills.
Experience with project management methods.
Peer-reviewed publication record.

Weekend and evening work sometimes required.
This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the US.
Working internationally is only allowed for IHME sponsored work that requires in-country participation.
Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote in the US; work schedule required to overlap 50% of IHME office hours.
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