ABOUT PHASTAR

PHASTAR is a multiple award-winning global biometrics Contract Research Organisation (CRO). We partner with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device organisations to provide the expertise and processes to manage and deliver on time, quality biostatistics, programming, data management and data science services. Operating across the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Kenya, Australia, India, China, and Japan, PHASTAR is the second largest specialised biometrics provider globally, and the largest in the UK.

WHY PHASTAR

Accredited as an outstanding company to work for, PHASTAR is committed to employee engagement, workplace satisfaction and ensuring a healthy work-life balance. We offer flexible working, involvement in developing company-wide initiatives, structured training and development plans, and a truly supportive, fun, and friendly environment.

What’s more, when you join our team, PHASTAR will plant a tree in your honour, as one of our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives. So, not only would you get your dream job, you’ll also be helping to save the planet!

THE ROLE
Work as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, supporting clinical trials and healthcare teams by applying high quality approaches whilst adhering to deliverable timelines. Acting within a team environment and being responsible for the Machine Learning aspects of a project. Acting as a consultant to pharmaceutical or biotech companies. Excellent knowledge of different technical approaches and relevant clinical and healthcare data sources such as clinical data standards and observational data. Excellent team work ethos, proactive at managing workload and a willingness to help others and learn new skills from working in a team environment. Contribute to increasing the company profile, business generation and sales meetings. Potential to have lead responsibilities.

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer (minimum 5 years commercial experience)
• Extensive knowledge of ML frameworks, libraries, data structures, data modelling, and software architecture.
• Advanced proficiency with Python.
• In-depth knowledge of mathematics, statistics, and algorithms.
• Good understanding of ML models development and evaluation process.
• Essential to have experience with ETL/ELT practices such profiling, cleansing, transforming, developing and documenting data
• structures, schemas and dictionaries.
• High proficiency in software development best practices.
• MLOps/DevOps and CI/CD experience in a data science/machine learning settings, (e.g. Shell Scripting, Jenkins, Code Build, Testing)
• High proficiency in automating serverless, event-driven pipelines using AWS Platform Services including but not limited to: S3,
• Lambda, CloudWatch, Step Function, ECS, Dockers, Sagemaker.
• Nice to have exposure to machine learning for NLP
• Highly desirable to have pharma experience
• Proficiency in version control in git, GitHub, BitBucket, or similar.

• Educated to PhD/Masters or Bachelor’s degree in statistics, computational biology, bioinformatics,mathematics, computer science or a related discipline
• Experience within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry
• Familiarity with GCP and regulatory requirements
• Experience of writing analysis plans

APPLY NOW

With he world’s eyes focused on clinical trial data, this is a fantastic time to join an award-winning specialised biometrics CRO that is renowned for its technical expertise, outstanding quality, and cutting-edge data science techniques.

• PHASTAR does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies. In the event that speculative CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, PHASTAR reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This applies to any CVs sent directly to any PHASTAR employee.