Principal Data Scientist

Veracyte, Inc. is a global diagnostics company focused on transforming cancer care through genomic data, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and evidence generation. The Principal Data Scientist will lead the development of oncology-based digital pathology AI models for new diagnostic products, leveraging multimodal oncology data while coordinating technical teams and collaborating with clinical, medical, bioinformatics, and external partners.

Responsibilities:

• Develop DPAI models using WSI data to predict clinical outcomes and pathological/morphologic features ensuring their biological explainability, including adapting open-source state-of-the-art AI foundation models to Veracyte’s and collaborator
• Identify the correct data sources for developing DPAI models and lead team efforts to obtain annotation or labels for ML development
• Analyze complex data/ML problems and break them into actionable sub projects or tasks. Coordinate the delegation of tasks to junior team members as technical lead, track progress and ensure correctness of the deliverables
• Collaborate with both internal and external partners to understand the clinical and business requirements for given products and tailor projects and algorithms accordingly
• Partner closely with bioinformatics, statistical, and medical experts to document projects, including writing and generating analyses and visualizations for publication in peer-reviewed journals
• Lead collaboration within and across teams with the ability to manage project execution and completion
• Coordinate with both internal and external medical experts to identify critical research questions and datasets that build evidence for the utility of our models