Data Scientist

Engineering        ·        Sydney, New South Wales         ·         Full Time

About Omniscient

Omniscient Neurotechnology is the “Human Connectome Company”. Headquartered in Australia, Omniscient is a pioneer in human Connectomics, a field of neuroscience that investigates the structural and functional connections of the human brain. Such study is providing researchers and clinicians the tools to better understand and treat complex neurological and mental disorders in a hyper-personalised way.Our technology uses routine MRI scans to produce personalised brain maps via patented cloud and machine-learning-based processing techniques. Traits and abnormalities derived from an individual’s brain pathways can allow neurosurgeons, neurologists, psychologists and psychiatrists the ability to make more accurate diagnosis and create personalised treatment plans for all brain-related disorders. Our products deliver these maps with enterprise-grade efficiency and usability, enabling broader access to vital subject-specific neurological insights. These insights are rapidly changing the research, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases such as depression, anxiety, dementia, chronic pain, cancer, schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, ADD, ADHD, PTSD & TBI.

Since founding we have achieved several world-firsts, such as the development of the world’s first Connectomic neurosurgical planning platform to be cleared by regulatory bodies. Today, we are building the world’s most advanced repository of brain imaging data to facilitate researchers globally with the goal of using machine learning to explore the brain’s 100 billion connections. 

With continued development, we intend to improve the lives of billions with both medical and non-medical products and services that drastically change how the human brain is understood, treated, and even enhanced. 

To achieve our goals we have recruited a high-caliber team of professionals in Australia, USA, China, and Canada and are continuing to grow our team globally.

Senior Team

Dr Michael Sughrue | Co-Founder, Director & Chief Medical Officer

Mike built one of the biggest neurosurgery practices in the US. With over 230 articles published in scientific journals and as a world authority in the field of Connectomics, Mike brings an unrivalled understanding of the brain to the business of practical clinical outcomes.

Dr Stephane Doyen | Co-Founder, Director, Chief Data Scientist & Chief Technology Officer

As the Head Data Scientist with top-tier consultants, Oliver Wyman, combined with a PhD in neuroscience from Cambridge, Stephane is the ideal technical leader to develop our brain/machine-learning software.

Stephen Scheeler | CEO & Director

Stephen headed up Facebook’s #5 market (ANZ) and was a pivotal figure in scaling Facebook from start up to US$500+ billion giant. Stephen brings the commercial software business leadership to execute our vision.

Role ( what your day to day might look like)

As a global company, we have development and commercial interests which spanning several continents and availability zones. Consequently, our SRE team is distributed between Australia and North America, providing support to the Delivery, Data Science and our Production Environments. As a member of this small team, you will design, maintain, and improve our practices across development, staging and production environments while working closely with the delivery teams. You will be working with best-in-class technologies both OSS and close. We host applications and services on Kubernetes (EKS) by default and our cloud is composed of technologies including: Istio, Helm, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Cloudflare and Datadog. We run data science workflows on medical imaging datasets at scale to guide neurosurgical decision making. As such, the reliability and security of our environments is of very high importance. We seek team members that are excited about learning new things, improving existing things and challenging themselves to mastery. When incidents do occur, you will serve at the front-line of our incident response: restoring availability, running post-mortems, and then working to develop monitoring solutions to be notified earlier as well as practices and technical solutions to avoid similar pitfalls in the future.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the application development team to improve upon our testing, release, and deployment processes.
• Prepare for the worst: build and conduct experiments that explore performance and induce failure to see how our systems respond. Translate those learnings into updates to our platform and practices to achieve greater resiliency
• Build internal tools for debugging, performance analysis, compliance, monitoring and enforcement of code and security best practices
• Design the future of our platform — as we expand into new products, we will need to take on new technologies and architectural patterns. We want an SRE who is excited about exploring trade-offs and opinionated about the ways in which we should grow in order to maintain a world-class platform

Key Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant STEM field 
• 3+ years of experience directly in DevOps, SRE or a similar role
• Extensive knowledge of AWS cloud services and infrastructure orchestration tools, Terraform, Ansible, Helm
• Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes management and tools, Argo CD, Istio
• Demonstrated experience in networking concepts, DNS, routing, TCP and UDP protocols, AWS VPC
• Experience with best practices for logging, monitoring, and alerting., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana

Highly Desired

• Management of CI/CD workloads eg., Gitlab CI
• Designing and maintaining infrastructure for security
• Previous experience as a software engineer eg., NodeJS, Python, Go
• Experience with computationally intensive workloads
• Experience working in a regulated environment or with personally identifying information (eg. Aerospace, Automotive, Banking)

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus ESOP plan
• Flexible and remote working – we value work-life balance
• State of the art facilities (Sydney location) – central location with bicycle parking and end of trip facilities

The open workspace is set up for you to do your best work and have a great time doing so with breakout areas, little nooks, and quiet places to retreat. If you’re seeking professional growth and enjoy working on large, distributed, cloud-based applications that change the world of brain care then apply now to be considered for the position!

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