Overview
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.
With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.
At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. These values are grounded in and expressed through the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems. Fred Hutch is in pursuit of becoming an anti-racist organization. We are committed to ensuring that all candidates hired share our commitment to diversity, anti-racism and inclusion.
The Leek group is committed to being a welcoming place to all students, postdocs, faculty and collaborators (see our Code of Conduct). We work together on projects, share credit liberally, encourage and support each other, and try to solve problems that make the world a better place. We have hired economists, computer scientists, geneticists, biologists, social workers, and everything in between. We have hired people with everything from GED level education to postdoctoral level education and all are treated equally as team contributors. We support flexible work arrangements, remote work, and are committed to life-work balance in everything we do. We believe excellence is defined broadly and want to encourage people to build on their personal strengths and learn new things. We have a great track record of helping people achieve their goals in research, careers, and life and would love to work with you!
More information about how we work can be seen in our open-source guides:
- Guide to Career Planning: https://github.com/jtleek/careerplanning
- Guide to Data Sharing: https://github.com/jtleek/datasharing
- Guide to Reading Papers: https://github.com/jtleek/readingpapers
- Guide to First Paper: https://github.com/jtleek/firstpaper
- Guide to Giving Talks: https://github.com/jtleek/talkguide
- Guide to Writing R Packages: https://github.com/jtleek/rpackages
Responsibilities
Fred Hutch is a remarkable place where scientists, clinical providers, administrative professionals, trainees, and fellows work together to make discoveries to improve patient care across both infectious disease and cancer.
To achieve this incredible promise requires significant new data science, machine learning, and clinical data analysis skills across the entire Fred Hutch enterprise. These skills are necessary not just for researchers at Fred Hutch, but translate to all biomedical enterprises. The Leek group is searching for a data scientist who can help develop professional development training in data science, workflow development, machine learning, data analysis, reproducible research and statistics as both asynchronous online courses and in person training courses for Fred Hutch employees. The training data scientist will work collaboratively with the entire Leek group and broader educational efforts at Fred Hutch to ensure that we leverage all existing training resources to help “level up” everyone at Fred Hutch on data science.
Specifically, the data scientist will have the following duties:
- Developing data science, data workflow, machine learning, statistics, and data thinking courses for Fred Hutch personnel
- Creating asynchronous online training courses based on both new and existing training material
- Coordinate with data science training professionals across Fred Hutch and beyond to ensure course materials are developed most efficiently
- Coordinating community based training and social events including the local useR Seattle chapter and internal Fred Hutch data user groups
- Collaborating directly with Fred Hutch labs to identify data needs, train individual labs in best practices, and scale ideas to the broader Fred Hutch and world wide biomedical data science community.
Qualifications
- The successful applicant will have (or will be in the process of obtaining) a masters or PhD in biostatistics, genetics, statistics, computer science, machine learning, or another statistical or computational biomedical discipline
- 3 years of research and/or education, teaching/training
- Demonstrated experience with instructional design
- Experience in teaching data or technical topics to audiences with both limited and significant data science background
- Creative and thoughtful
- Experience performing data analysis with scripting languages (R, Python)
- Experience with workflow managers (WDL, Snakemake, Galaxy)
- Experience with tools for reproducible research (Github, Gitlab, Jupyter, R markdown, Quarto)
- Experience analyzing biomedical data in a collaborative environment
- Excited to contribute to the important mission of Fred Hutch
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirement, with exceptions only for approved medical or religious accommodations. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees must, prior to their first day of employment:
Provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 ; OR
Initiate the accommodations process to request a religious or medical accommodation (medical accommodations require a healthcare provider’s certification).
A statement describing your commitment and contributions toward greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism in your career or that will be made through your work at Fred Hutch is requested of all finalists.
The annual base salary range for this position is from $91,936 to $145,318 and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.
This position may be eligible for relocation assistance.
This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks), and partially paid sabbatical leave (up to 6 months).
Our Commitment to Diversity
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) Employer. We are committed to cultivating a workplace in which diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability (physical or mental), marital or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, political ideology, or membership in any other legally protected class. We are an Affirmative Action employer. We encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds to apply and desire priority referrals of protected veterans. If due to a disability you need assistance/and or a reasonable accommodation during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to our Employee Services Center at hrops@fredhutch.org or by calling 206-667-4700.