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Senior Data Scientist - Pharma

Los Angeles, California, United StatesFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Build decisioning engines for next best action (NBA) and next best content (NBC) to guide commercial teams on action, channel, content, and timing for customers or healthcare professionals.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC machine learning engineer (decisioning & personalization)

Builds

Production ML models, deep learning solutions, and reinforcement learning policies for commercial decisioning

Domain

Pharma/Healthcare commercial analytics and Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement learning, contextual bandits, sequential decision models, propensity modeling, uplift modeling, MLOps, PySpark, Python, SQL, A/B testing, model monitoring

Preferred skills

Life sciences domain knowledge, CRM/CDP platforms, causal inference, regulated data handling, Databricks certifications

Technologies

Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, MLflow, Unity Catalog, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Responsibilities

Design and deploy NBA/NBC models; Build ML, deep learning, and reinforcement learning solutions; Develop propensity, response, and uplift models; Run offline policy evaluation and online experiments; Own Databricks training pipelines; Design feedback loops for retraining; Apply GenAI/LLMs for content tasks; Mentor junior data scientists

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC