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Sr. Data Scientist for Zoetis’ Diagnostics R&D team

located in Farum, Denmark

Be a part of a global market-leading company within animal health.

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be working in a fast-growing veterinary diagnostics product development organization in Zoetis. You will be located in Farum (Denmark) and work as part of Global Diagnostics within the Veterinary Medicine Research and Development (VMRD) organization.

A Glimpse of your workday

This role allows you to work with cross-functional teams working on the development of diagnostic assays and consumables to be used in innovative diagnostic products.

You will interact closely with multidisciplinary teams, including Assay Development, Software Development, Consumable Engineering, Electro-Mechanical Engineering, Marketing, IT, Manufacturing, Customer Service, and QC.

A key responsibility will be a system-level understanding of the diagnostic products and the ability to bridge between assay, consumable, hardware, and software.

As part of the role, you will be able to manage and process experimental data from, e.g., raw sensors and actuators in custom hardware or data from conventional laboratory instruments.

You will be able to provide guidance and leadership for assay scientists and hardware/software engineers in data acquisition, modeling, and analysis and provide tools for automating and improving the use of experimental data.

While the immediate interactions are located in Farum, the global development team is located in the USA (CA, MI, and NC) and Farum, Denmark. The role offers ample opportunities to operate globally and build lasting and effective relationships across sites.

Your background

 To have success in this job, your profile includes:

•  Ph.D. in Healthcare Engineering, Applied Maths, or similar.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated diagnostics product development experience.

The ideal candidate is an experienced data scientist who, in addition to applying technical skills within data analysis, understands the projects at a full system level and are able to see the big picture. 

Technical Skills

•  Demonstrated experience in applied physics and mathematical modeling with tools such as Python, JMP, R, MATLAB, etc., for algorithm development for in-vitro diagnostic assay performance measurements and modelling.
• Experience with exploring, manipulating, and visualizing data to find new patterns and signals.
• Experience with image analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
• Experience with simulation of multiphysics problems in, e.g., ANSYS.
• Familiar with common diagnostics sensing technologies such as spectrometers, scanners, wide spectrum light sources, optical filtering, etc.
• Familiar with diagnostic assay types and signal generation such as fluorescence, absorbance, scattering, etc.
• A good technical understanding of chemistry, immuno, and/or molecular assay designs.
• Microfluidics experience for use in consumable design for immunoassays, biochemical, and molecular assays.
• Experience in system design, development, and integration of absorbance, qPCR multiplex, hematology measurements with in-vitro diagnostics.
• Demonstrated understanding of hardware/software partitioning for optimal system solutions, requiring experience in understanding hardware/firmware/system software relationships.
• Demonstrated experience in critical thinking and problem-solving skills, planning and organizing, decision-making.
• Root cause analysis techniques and documentation.
• Excellent communication skills, influencing and leading, facilitation, and teamwork capabilities.
• Prior experience in a regulated industry such as healthcare, laboratory diagnostics, medical devices, or pharmaceutical companies is desirable.

We offer

This is a unique and challenging job in a global market-leading company, where you will have opportunities to excel and expand your competencies together with highly skilled and committed colleagues.

You become part of an ambitious company with strong core values also regarding its workforce.

In Farum, we have a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment with more than 80 colleagues and 10 different nationalities, an informal work atmosphere with a willingness to help, and always room to have fun.

If you want to join

Please send us your application and cv as soon as possible and no later than January 31, 2022. Interviews will be held as relevant candidates apply.

For any questions, don’t hesitate to contact the hiring manager, Global Consumable Lead, Director Martin Heller at +45 2555 0870.