Careers

Description:

We have an opening for a full time Statistical Programmer with R and SAS proficiency to help carry out clinical and epidemiological research studies in arthritis, musculoskeletal disease and pain using large existing datasets. We are an internationally leading NIH-funded research group. The candidate will have the opportunity to join an outstanding group of supportive and collaborative researchers tasked with how to prevent and/or treat these common disabling conditions.    

Primarily responsible for designing, developing, and executing statistical analysis leveraging research study databases.

Anticipated Duties include:

* Creating, modifying, and maintaining R and SAS programs using advanced expertise in utilizing R base and packages and SAS base and macros (20%) to meet the programming needs of investigators

* Extracting and manipulating data from large cohort study databases with R or SAS to create analytic datasets to meet research projects requirements (40%)

* Designing, executing, interpreting, and reporting the results of statistical analyses with R and SAS in writing and with tables and graphs when appropriate for manuscripts or conference presentations (20%)

* Maintaining and updating existing datasets in R or SAS, merging existing datasets with future data, and managing the documentation and data dictionaries for dataset changes (10%)

* Attending study meetings and communicating with investigators about analysis plans for research projects and grant developments (10%)