Principal Data Scientist at Veeva Systems

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Link is a pillar in the Veeva system landscape that envisions "Connecting life sciences and key people to improve research and care." Our product offers real-time academics, social, and medical data to build comprehensive profiles. These profiles help our life-science industry partners find the right experts to accelerate the development and the adoption of new therapeutics. We accelerate clinical trials and equitable care. We are proud that our work helps patients receive their most urgent care sooner.
 
Your work will shape the product roadmap for the entire family of Link products, especially newer products such as Link for Trials. You will design and create an end-to-end pipeline to extract predefined categories of information from big unstructured data in multi-domain and multi-lingual setups. You will have access to cloud infrastructure to develop your model and support from a team of software developers and DevOps engineers to deploy it to production.
 
We want to develop new algorithms to redefine the industry expectations for quality vs. quantity compromise. We train ML models empowered by over 1900 curators to meet both the quality and the scale requirements. ML models complement and learn from continuous curation and scale our solutions to different regions, languages, and medical specialties.
 
You are welcome to work remotely from any location within the United Kingdom. It's essential that you reside in the United Kingdom and have legal authorization to work without needing Veeva to assist with visa or relocation matters. If your circumstances differ (for instance, if you're planning to relocate to the United Kingdom), we're open to considering your application, especially if you're a remarkable fit for the role. In such scenarios, please provide an additional note detailing your situation and what makes you an exceptional candidate.


What You'll Do

Develop machine learning models at scale and in the AWS cloud to structure and analyze scientific data
Adopt the latest technologies and trends in AI
Use and develop named entity recognition, entity-linking, slot-filling, few-shot learning, active learning, dense passage retrieval, and other statistical techniques and models for information extraction and machine reading
Deeply understand and analyze our data model per data source and geo-region and interpret model decisions
Collaborate with data quality teams to define annotation tasks, metrics, and perform a qualitative and quantitative evaluation
Collaborate with engineering teams to implement models at a terminal scale



Requirements

8+ years of experience as a data scientist (or 6+ years with a relevant Ph.D. degree)
Fluent in Python/Java and bashing scripts
Excellent analytical skills and data curiosity
Superior communication and presentation skills
Mastery in at least one framework for BigData (e.g. Spark, DASK) and one framework for Deep Learning (e.g. Tensorflow, PyTorch)
Mastery of Machine Learning, including up-to-date knowledge of the latest ML innovations and frameworks
Used to start-up environments
Social competence and a team player
High energy and ambitious
Agile mindset



Nice to Have

Experience in life/health science industry, notably pharma
Background in clinical (trial) data
Having published in AI space in a peer-reviewed journal/conference
Production-grade development Skills
Cloud development, especially AWS
Experience in NLP, NER, deduplication, entity-linking, graph-processing, or reinforcement learning
Leadership skills and a solid network to help in hiring and growing the team
Experience in containerization, Kubernetes, or relevant distributed computing technologies
Experience with NoSQL databases, especially MongoDB
Familiarity with model registry solutions such as MLflow



Perks & Benefits

Work anywhere
Personal development budget 
Veeva charitable giving program
Fitness reimbursement
Life insurance + pension fund



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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.