Data Scientist, Intern (Remote) at Quest Diagnostics in Pittsburgh, PA

• End-to-end ML delivery: data curation, feature design, modelling, validation, CI/CD deployment, and        monitoring. 
• Productionization: containerization, model serving, performance tuning, rollout strategies, and observability (drift, performance, alerts).  
• Model governance: reproducibility, versioning, bias/fairness checks, and audit-ready documentation.  
• Integration of advanced analytics and machine learning models into business products and services including business intelligence dashboards and real-time analytics.
• Curation of data sets from Quest and non-Quest data sources in support of deriving business insights driven by advanced analytics. 
• Cross-functional partnership with clinicians and product owners to define outcomes, acceptance criteria, and validation plans.  
- Other duties as assigned
 

-    Master’s degree or PhD student in quantitative field including Data Science, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Public Health, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics
-    Strong ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, balancing priorities, and to work on cross-functional teams
-    Ability to work on large data sets using Python is required
-    Candidates with both advanced Python and SQL skills are strongly preferred 
-    Demonstrated track record delivering ML models to production (architecture, deployment, and monitoring), preferably in the healthcare industry, is strongly preferred  
-    Experience using data mining, pattern recognition, machine learning, deep learning, statistical and/or mathematical programming and modeling preferred 
-    Use of tools like AWS-Sagemaker, Vertex AI, or C3.ai preferred
-    Professional data science/data engineering experience preferred
-    Experience with clinical/health care data and specifically lab data preferred
-    Excellent communication skills strongly preferred
-    Open to limited travel