Clinical and Data Scientist

Job Summary

The UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) is seeking a Scientist with expertise in data science and addiction science to join the UW-CTRI Research Program. The Scientist will work with Jesse Kaye, PhD, and other UW-CTRI investigators to support programs of research using diverse methodologies to advance tobacco use treatment development, evaluation, dissemination, and implementation. The Scientist will primarily support a program of tobacco treatment research to use machine learning models to develop personalized prospective risk predictions and interventions to reduce smoking lapse and relapse likelihood by providing the right treatment, for the right person, at the right time.

This position will serve as a data science subject matter expert to enhance UW-CTRI’s capacity to use sophisticated interpretable machine learning models and other advanced analytic techniques to understand tobacco dependence and treatment development. The Scientist may contribute clinical research projects to across the translational spectrum of addiction and behavioral science (e.g., clinical trials, pharmacotherapy, digital therapeutics, precision medicine, dissemination and implementation science). The Scientist will contribute to the development of new team science projects (e.g., grant/funding applications) and have the opportunity to pursue independent funding opportunities to develop their independent program of research.

Additional responsibilities include: Identifies research problems, designs research methodologies, performs research, prepares data sets and analyses them using data science techniques, presents results for presentation to professional organizations or for scholarly publications to help advance research.

• This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.
• Terminal, 24 month appointment
• This position has the possibility to be extended or converted to an ongoing appointment based on need and/or funding.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in tobacco and/or other addiction research
• 5 years of experience working in clinical trials research setting
• Experience using R and the tidyverse/tidymodels ecosystem for data analysis and machine learning
• Demonstrated track record of successful research program (e.g., first-authored publications, research grants) appropriate to career stage

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of clinical trials research
• Knowledge and experience in precision or personalized medicine
• Experience with data collection software such as REDCap
• Experience with qualitative research methods
• Experience with remote or decentralized clinical research methods
• Completion of a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist training program
• Experience providing counseling and/or clinical supervision for treatment of tobacco, substance use disorders, and other behavioral health conditions

Education

PhD required, with focus in clinical psychology, data science, or related field preferred