next review date wednesday jul 31 2019 at 1159pm pacific time apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee final date saturday aug 31 2019 at 1159pm pacific time applications will continue to be accepted until this date but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled description berkeley institute for data science bids at the university of california berkeley invites applications for an assistant project data scientist position join a community of strong researchers practicing data scientists and academic and administrative leaders in an environment distinguished by a strong sense of collaboration openness and respect we are convinced of the value of data science to serve the interests of the public and the campus community through interdisciplinary research and solutionbased scholarship that fosters societal change background berkeley institute for data science bids was established in late 2013 with grants from the gordon and betty moore foundation and alfred p sloan foundation as well as investment from the university of california berkeley the institutes mission has been to advance scientific discovery through collaboration across research domains in its first five years bids brought data science to the forefront of academic research and training at berkeley bids is poised to play an increasingly important role at the university in october 2018 the university announced that bids will be part of its new division of data science and information the announcement states that the institute has facilitated and nurtured dataintensive research helped establish the conditions for todays announcement and will continue to play an important leading role bridging the inherently interdisciplinary research of the new division to fulfill this role bids is expanding its research and professional staff we seek colleagues who can add to our culture of collaboration which creates impact and to the strong working relationships which motivate bids and the division our work includes a balance of interdisciplinary research projects to solve intractable issues in specific domains by applying expertise in data science research software development projects to create crosscutting computational tools and reproducible practices in all our work we aim to make lasting contributions to open source to enable data scientists globally researchers at and affiliated with bids have built some of the leading analytical and computational open source tools for todays data scientists positioning the institute to imagine and create the next generation of breakthroughs in datadriven discovery position description the assistant project data scientist makes significant and creative contributions to research projects that are well aligned with the leading role that bids plays in dataintensive research at berkeley and with the mission and goals of the institute they have responsibility for key research activities on projects usually working directly with faculty or researchers and may have responsibility for some technical training in scope of the assistant project data scientist role at bids are planning and implementing interdisciplinary research projects with faculty and other researchers developing algorithms and analytical and computational software to facilitate