About Lokavant
Lokavant is reshaping how clinical trial teams execute studies with its Clinical Intelligence Platform and novel AI feasibility software, Spectrum. With Spectrum, study teams can predict, optimize, and control trial timelines and costs in real time, enabling iterative feasibility analysis and mid-study course correction. Lokavant is on a mission to help the research industry utilize data and advanced AI to surface insights that improve trial performance and outcomes.
About the Opportunity
Key Responsibilities
- Keep up to date with industry trends in clinical trial data and analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence, and apply this knowledge in daily work
- Hands on data collection, preprocessing and analysis
- Presenting information internally and externally using data visualization techniques
- Design, develop and apply state-of-the-art methods within AI and machine learning to solve complex problems related to clinical trials
- Act as an AI thought leader, including the creation of whitepapers, presentations, executive briefings, reports, and other materials to support AI solutions and services
- Guide life science clients with high autonomy in AI strategy and development, including understanding needs, performing exploratory data analysis, building and validating models, and deploying models into cloud environments
- Iterate on and/or create repeatable, reusable processes and scalable data systems that meet technical and deployment challenges
- Maintain and uphold data science best practices on new methodologies, technologies, industry trends, and open-source packages
Minimum Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in Data Science
- Experience working in an Agile software development environment
- Proactive and motivated professional who is comfortable with ambiguity and thrives in a rapidly changing start-up environment while being able to learn quickly and autonomously
- 4+ years of programming experience with one or more analytics tools (Python/R and SQL)
- Machine Learning and predictive modeling skills: Ability to build and manage models to predict future outcomes using data that is often incomplete and/or imperfect and spread across disparate sources.
- Demonstrated capabilities in analyzing heterogeneous datasets; Ability to identify trends, identify outliers and find patterns.
Preferred (nice-to-have) Qualifications
- Experience in life sciences or healthcare industries, with a focus on clinical trial data standards (e.g. CDISC, FHIR, HL7, etc.) and/or e-clinical systems and technologies (e.g. EDC, CTMS, IRT, etc.)
- Experience with Jupyter Notebooks and/or Shiny applications
- Experience working in a cloud environment and using cloud-based services
- Experience using LLMs, LangChain, RAG, and knowledge graphs for agentic text extraction and inference
- Experience with causal methods such as Bayesian networks, IPW, G-computation, and/or TMLE
Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000 + equity and bonus
Employee Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits, including mental health and telehealth
- Employee stock options
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Flexible paid time off policy
- Flexible remote work policy
- Generous paid parental leave policy
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Basic and supplemental life and AD&D insurance
- Health Advocate program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Healthcare & dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Discounts on auto, home, and pet insurance
- Team-building events and outings
- Learning and professional development opportunities
- Employee referral program
Lokavant is an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, color, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, medical condition, or any other protected characteristic. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
