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Principal Data Scientist - Scientific AI, Life Sciences

Job ID: 94902
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Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.

Your Impact

Your role will be split between developing new internal knowledge, building AI and machine learning models & pipelines, supporting client discussions, prototype development, and deploying directly with client delivery teams.  
You will bring distinctive statistical, machine learning, and AI competency to complex client problems. With your expertise in advanced mathematics, statistics, and/or machine learning, you will help build and shape McKinsey’s scientific AI offering. 
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in the creation/dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge and proprietary assets. You will work in a multi-disciplinary team and build the firm’s reputation in your area of expertise. 
You will act as an analytics translator with senior stakeholders while also advising clients throughout the stages of model development. You will help build our teams by collaborating with others across the practice and beyond as well as mentoring junior colleagues. 

Your Growth

You’ll be working in one of our offices in North America in our Life Sciences practice. 
You will collaborate with cutting edge AI teams on research and development topics across our life sciences, global energy and materials (GEM), and advanced industries (AI) practices, serving as a Principal Data Scientist in a technology development and delivery capacity. 
You will lead a team of cross functional technologists and practitioners to innovate alongside clients and client service teams to develop new solutions or enhance existing assets. This will involve leveraging advanced mathematics, stats and machine learning to derive structure and knowledge from raw data sets across various industry sectors that will enable solutions for many clients and amplify impact across a broad range of issues. You will mentor data scientists across multiple projects, ensuring statistical validity, training data, and overall analytics methodological approach align with client and asset development objectives. 
You will be on McKinsey’s global scientific AI team helping to answer industry questions related to how AI can be used for therapeutics, chemicals & materials (including small molecules, proteins, mRNA, polymers, etc.). 
In this role you will lead the development and own the data science and analytics roadmap of client-facing analytics assets across a broad range of topics.

Your qualifications and skills

  • Master’s degree with 8+ years or PhD degree with 7+ years of relevant experience in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or equivalent experience with experience in research
  • Thought leadership or people leadership experience (e.g. managed project teams or direct reports)
  • Experience in client delivery with direct client contact
  • Proven experience applying machine learning techniques to solve business problems
  • Proven experience in translating technical methods to non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong programming experience in python (R, Python, C++ optional) and the relevant analytics libraries (e.g., pandas, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, statsmodels, pymc, pytorch/tf/keras, langchain)
  • Experience with version control (GitHub)
  • ML experience with causality, Bayesian statistics & optimization, survival analysis, design of experiments, longitudinal analysis, surrogate models, transformers, Knowledge Graphs, Agents, Graph NNs, Deep Learning, computer vision
  • Ability to write production code and object-oriented programming 

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Job Skill Group - N/A
Job Skill Code - PDSC - Principal Data Scientist I
Function - Technology
Industry - High Tech;Life Sciences
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 GMT 2025
LinkedIn Posting City - Boston
LinkedIn Posting State/Province - Massachusetts 
LinkedIn Posting Country - United States
LinkedIn Job Title - Principal Data Scientist - Scientific AI, Life Sciences
LinkedIn Function - Consulting;Science
LinkedIn Industry - Management Consulting
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Mid-Senior level