# Junior Data Scientist at Black Canyon Consulting

- Company: Black Canyon Consulting
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: Bethesda, MD
- Level: Junior
- Discipline: Data
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Skills: APIs
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/blackcanyonconsulting/jobs/8012994003

## Description

Overview
 Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Junior Data Scientist. This position supports research data analysis, dissemination, and scientific programming activities related to critical illness, infectious diseases, and related conditions of high national priority..
 Job Description
 The Data Engineer will design, implement, maintain, and optimize data pipelines, APIs, data transformation workflows, and supporting infrastructure. This position will work with databases, data lakes, data warehouses, feature stores, and other data platforms to ensure information can be efficiently ingested, transformed, accessed, and used by analytical and AI-enabled systems.
 The Data Engineer will also develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes, feature engineering workflows, and service layers that expose data or model endpoints to downstream systems and applications.
 Required Skills
• Expertise in R or Python for statistical analysis and data manipulation
• Experience using NLP techniques including named entity recognition, text classification, or information extraction to process data
• Experience with LLM prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM fine-tuning to extract structured information from unstructured data
• Working knowledge of standard machine learning methods relevant to health data
• Ability to critically evaluate AI/ML methods for appropriateness, bias, and validity in a clinical research context
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to translate technical findings for clinical/non-technical collaborators
• Abili

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