Data Scientist

$75,150 - $87,149/Yr

Baylor College of Medicine - Houston, TX

Full-time

Hybrid - Houston, TX

Educational Services

About the position

The Data Scientist position at the St-Pierre Lab focuses on designing advanced microscopy and image analysis software for the life science community. The role involves maintaining and developing in-house scientific software, collaborating with lab members on computational approaches, and contributing to the development of cutting-edge technologies that enhance human health. This hybrid position offers the opportunity to work closely with experimentalists and computational scientists in a supportive and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop in-house scientific software
• Develop or modify code for controlling microscope-based image acquisition
• Develop or modify code for image analysis for fluorescence microscopy
• Create new workflow for a process
• Adapt existing algorithm to a workflow
• Modify a workflow for bug fixing, adding or generalizing features
• Refactor code for simplicity and speed
• Translate code from one language to another
• Develop graphical user interface
• Code review and collaborative editing
• Benchmark a workflow for speed and anticipate run-time errors
• Write test cases for a module
• Write documentation and perform other technical communication
• Work with team members on programming needs
• Maintain database
• Maintain and develop in-house server for data storage and higher performance computation
• Maintain lab IT infrastructure
• Assist lab members on relevant tasks
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Master's degree in statistics, science, mathematics or related field
• Five years of relevant experience

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Math, Physics, Biology or a related field
• Experience with MATLAB and/or Python programming (or other object-oriented programming languages such as C++)
• Experience in image processing and image analysis
• Biology experience
• Experience in collaborative coding and version control