Assoc Data Scientist - Contract

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

We are looking for a motivated individual with strong analytical skills to join our team. The Associate Advanced Analytics Analyst will be work on design, deployment, and support of the Gen AI and Machine Learning models, pipelines, and tools supporting Global Operations & Supply Chain. The goal is to help drive proactive intelligent decisions at scale with predictive / prescriptive analytics and structured analysis of broad sets of data. The candidate will work closely with the business teams to strategize, build, execute, and productionize AI / ML programs that enable insights into key drivers of strategic imperatives and operations metrics. They will empower leaders to make proactive decisions that improve business outcomes and service to our customers in a cost-effective way.

The position will also focus on efficiency, accuracy, and reliability of ML models. A successful candidate will have in-depth technical knowledge of machine learning and would take part in the full cycle of the development process which includes but is not limited to design, implementation, debugging, testing and integration with other subsystems.

A Day in the Life

• Execution :

o Work independently and as a part of large teams to implement strategic imperatives and establish operational plans for multiple Global Ops programs. Recognized expert in professional discipline

o Analyze, quantify, and visualize large amounts of data from multiple disparate sources to generate verifiable conclusions

o Develop, inspect, transform, mine, and model data to support business processes with large language models, statistical significance, forecasting, anomaly detection, decision trees, logistic regression, probabilities, etc.

o Manage all aspects of end-to-end analytics, model execution, data accuracy monitoring, drift monitoring, model re-training, utilizing customized report building functions of systems

o Develop, configure, and maintain our GenAI / machine learning infrastructure and pipelines, ensuring they are scalable, reliable, and secure.

o Work closely with other data scientists to operationalize machine learning models, including deployment, monitoring, and version control.

o Implement automated processes for data validation, model training, model evaluation, and model deployment.

o Optimize machine learning workflows for performance and efficiency.

o Develop tools and frameworks to enable end-to-end automation of the AI lifecycle.

o Monitor and analyze model performance and data quality and troubleshoot any issues that arise.

o Partner with AI / ML practitioners inside and outside Medtronic to bring the latest best practices, tools, and techniques

o Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and practices in GenAI, ML, MLOps and incorporate them into our workflows as appropriate.

o Communicate data stories and insights to the non-technical community, describe model outcomes to technical team. Lead and mentor other data scientists on the team

Must Haves

Nice to Haves

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM :   Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and / or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy :   Entry-level individual contributor on a project or work team.Works with close supervision.

Organizational Impact :   Delivers work of limited scope, typically smaller, less complex projects or related activities.

Innovation and Complexity :   Identifies, defines and addresses problems that are not immediately evident but typically not difficult or complex.

Makes minor changes in systems and processes to solve problems .

Communication and Influence :   Communicates primarily with internal contacts within immediate group.

Contacts others to gather, confirm and convey information.

Leadership and Talent Management :   N / A – job at this level is focused on self-development .

Required Knowledge and Experience :   Requires broad theoretical job knowledge typically obtained through advanced education.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A), 0 years of experience required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.

Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.

We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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