Data Scientist

About The George Institute

We are a medical research institute affiliated with leading universities aiming to challenge the status quo in health care.  With 700+ people around the world, and projects in over 40 countries, our Strategy 2025 is all about impact – specifically, the impact of The George Institute’s activities on the health of millions of people, particularly those living in disadvantaged circumstances around the world.

Our strategy focuses on three key research priorities:

Better Treatments: finding better treatments for the world’s biggest health problems.

Better Care: transforming primary health care to support better health for more people.

Healthier Societies: harnessing the power of communities, governments and markets to improve health.

Our innovative commercial enterprises help maximize our impact. 

Here is a sample of the things we are doing to achieve our goal of having the greatest possible impact on global health:

We are identifying better and safer treatments for the biggest killers like stroke, heart disease and high blood pressure;

In many countries, our award winning FoodSwitch smartphone app is helping people make healthy food choices when shopping;

In China, we ran a successful education and awareness program to reduce the amount of salt eaten by people by 25% each day

In rural India, we have shown that mobile technology can help diagnose mental health, as well as help treat cardiovascular disease, and we’re looking at similar approaches to treating chronic diseases in Indonesia and China;

Together with Aboriginal communities in NSW, Australia, we developed an innovative community led program to assist young Aboriginal drivers attain their license, now implemented in a dozen of locations;

We are developing an affordable dialysis machine, with potential to save millions of lives each year and transform the way kidney disease is treated globally. 

George Institute Services India

George Institute Services India Pvt Ltd (GIS) is a step-down subsidiary of The George Institute for Global Health, Australia (TGI), and has been set up as a commercial, for-profit entity to provide advisory and consulting services in the healthcare space, undertake commissioned research, and provide various services to overseas group entities. 

Context and Role

Data Science capability plays a pivotal role in our mission to harness the power of data to improve health outcomes globally. With an increasing in demand for data science expertise across grants, research programs & organizational needs, GI developed a data science strategy and implementation plan. As part of our commitment, we aim to expand our data science team across India, Australia & UK.

The Data Scientist will have the responsibility of independently delivering high-quality implementations of data science and AI techniques to address health research challenges and organisational development. They will work with a diverse range of datasets, including both structured and unstructured data such as text and images. Additionally, the scope of this role will involve presenting proof of concepts for the responsible use of Generative AI, including Large Language Models (LLMs). This role will be suitable for data scientist who is curious, a self-starter, takes ownership and thrives in a rapid pace environment.

Reporting Relationships

The Data Scientist will report to the Head of Data Science within the Biostatistics & Data Science Division. They will be responsible for collaborating with internal stakeholders worldwide, spanning various programs and capability teams throughout GI.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with research program areas and Data Science team in conceptualizing problems best suited for data science & AI led solutions in health research
• Immerse in the context of the research area/business area and develop a deep understanding of the problem and define requirements accordingly
• Design and propose robust solutions with a focus on ethical and responsible usage of AI
• Collect, prepare and preprocess data as relevant for downstream analysis and modelling tasks, ensuring high data quality and integrity
• Iteratively build and fine-tune analysis/models leveraging state-of-the art machine learning techniques ensuring optimal performance, interpretability and accuracy
• Develop rigorous testing and validation procedures while evaluating models, ensuring accuracy, robustness, and reliability of analysis/modelling outputs
• Interpret findings and communicate results effectively to stakeholders through visualizations, reports, and presentations in a clear and understandable manner
• Deploy, monitor and support implemented models leveraging appropriate MLOps tools
• Ensure codes for data pipeline and model development are efficient and well documented
• Contribute/assist in documenting the project and writing high quality reports/publications
• Develop deep stakeholder relationships across the project teams and capability teams
• Be an active member of and contribute to the GI Data Science Community of Practice
• Stay updated on emerging trends and advancements in data science methodologies applicable to health research

As a Team Member:

• Participate in special projects to improve processes, tools, systems and organisation;
• Take responsibility for personal learning and development and for setting achievable and meaningful work objectives and managing personal targets, meeting obligations of the Institute’s Performance Management and Development Policy;
• Demonstrate commitment to GIS’s values, including performing to an exceptionally high ethical standard and focus on integrity, collaboration and teamwork in all efforts.

Work, Health and Safety

• Comply with Work Health and Safety legislation and operate in accordance with established Occupational Health and Safety practice and procedures at the Institute.
• Promote and contribute to a safe, secure environment for staff and visitors.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Master’s or higher academic qualification with degree in either of Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence/Data Science/ Statistics or related field
• Demonstrated experience as data scientist working on a wide variety of machine learning techniques (atleast 1 year of work experience)
• Hands-on experience of iterative development including data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model fine-tuning
• Advanced proficiency in Python and experience with relevant libraries (e.g., scikit learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Transformers, etc.)
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

For more details, please see the Position Description for this role.

How to apply:

Interested candidates should send their resume with full contact details, current and expected CTC/salary and notice period details. Clearly mentioning the job title “Data Scientist” in the subject line to HR (GIS) hr@george-services.com by 30^th April 2025.

Our big and bold mission to improve the health of millions of people worldwide needs a diverse and innovative team to deliver it.  So we foster a dynamic, inclusive and flexible workplace where each individual can bring their best selves to work.

Everyone is encouraged to apply, including people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability, people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, and mature-aged adults.