As a Senior Data Scientist at Medtronic, you will be a key driver of data-driven innovation, leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI to extract actionable insights and develop predictive/prescriptive models. You'll play a pivotal role in optimizing processes, informing strategic decisions, and gaining a competitive edge, all while helping Medtronic champion healthcare access and equity. This role demands a self-starter with a deep understanding of business needs and the technical expertise to build and deploy robust AI/ML solutions.
A Day in the Life
You will drive data science innovation and business impact by:
- Developing, examining, extracting, and transforming data pipelines to increase efficiency, inform decision-making, and gain a competitive edge.
- Conducting descriptive analysis on data to detect data quality problems and performing advanced statistical analysis on experimental or business data to confirm and quantify trends or patterns.
- Creating predictive/prescriptive models, algorithms, and probability engines to support data analysis or product functions.
- Supporting tactical decision-making by using predictive and prescriptive modeling and extracting actionable insights from structured and unstructured data, including images.
- Evaluating model and algorithm effectiveness based on real-world outcomes and designing experiments and methodologies to generate and collect data for business use.
- Building, deploying, automating, and maintaining advanced analytics data pipelines.
- Completing ad hoc analytic stakeholder requests and projects by assessing data requirements, designing analytical studies, and delivering results and recommendations.
- Designing and deploying data pipeline prototypes into multiple data and analytics platforms.
- Optimizing AI models for performance, scalability, and efficiency, leveraging cloud-based resources and distributed computing frameworks.
- Building various AI/ML models, including OCR, Vision Inspection, Anomaly detection, time series forecast, NLP, and Classification.
- Applying prompt engineering techniques to enhance the performance and accuracy of AI models.
- Leveraging Generative AI skills to create and fine-tune AI models for various applications.
- Applying business area expertise to define and frame complex, multi-faceted projects and develop goals, direction, and work plans.
- Analyzing performance data trends to identify opportunities for advanced analytics, quality improvements, and/or cost savings.
- Serving as a subject matter expert on the functionality and content of business products and tools.
- Leading, guiding, training, and executing advanced analytics projects that improve business decisions.
Required Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc and 8+ years of relevant experience in Data Science.
- Proficiency in programming languages including Python, R, SQL, and NoSQL.
- Experience in visualizing advanced analytics models into business insights using tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience in designing and deploying distributed data processing frameworks, including NoSQL databases and high-performance computing clusters.
- A self-starter motivated to correctly interpret business needs, possessing strong problem-solving skills, and the technical expertise needed for hands-on data analysis, research, and programming.
Nice to Haves
- Experience in Generative AI, especially prompt engineering.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. We're committed to our employees, recognizing their contributions and providing 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, boldly attacking 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 90,000+ 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. Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity.
