Data Science Analyst - Limited Tenure (Lab Medicine & Pathology)
About The Position
PathAssist is a cutting-edge initiative at Mayo Clinic that uses artificial intelligence to democratize diagnostic expertise in pathology. By leveraging Mayo’s vast data ecosystem—including millions of whole slide images, laboratory information system data, and clinical notes—the project aims to develop an AI-driven tool that recommends optimal diagnostic stains and molecular tests using principles of information theory. The Data Science Analyst will play a key role in developing, training, and validating advanced multimodal AI models that integrate digital pathology, clinical text, and population health data. This role involves hands-on data curation, probabilistic and self-supervised model development, statistical performance evaluation, and interdisciplinary collaboration with physicians and scientists in computational pathology and informatics. Ideal candidates combine strong programming and analytical skills with curiosity about medical AI, digital pathology, and the future of diagnostic decision support. May work with knowledge architects, informaticians and clinicians at Mayo, and partner outside companies to develop and deploy applications to bring AI and analytic solutions to nontechnical users, often at the point of care. Applies and modifies existing scripts or software applications to support data management, data extraction, data analysis, and AI as required May develop predictive models on datasets to address various business problems by leveraging statistical modeling, operations research, machine learning, or data mining techniques. May provide Consultative Services to departments/divisions and/or support scientific projects under the guidance of a designated senior level data scientist.
Requirements
- strong programming and analytical skills
- curiosity about medical AI
- digital pathology
- the future of diagnostic decision support
Responsibilities
- Provides data insights for business problems that can be approached with analytics techniques to collect, explore, and extract insights from structured and unstructured data.
- Has expertise in the data science methods used to analyze data, and knowledge of data types, topics, and scientific challenges and approaches.
- Executes analytical procedures in the framework of a specific project work request.
- Creates or modifies scripts or software applications to support data management, data extraction and data analysis as required.
- Contributes to the interpretation of data analysis and to writing reports.
- Helps customers understand the data set and provide training and suggestions for improvement on the data request.
- Leverages communication and interpersonal skills and works with subject matter experts
- Presents findings in easy-to-understand terms for the business or clinical practice.
Benefits
- Medical: Multiple plan options.
- Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
- Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
