Data Scientist / Statistician

You will be responsible for improving the anthropometric nutritional status of children aged 0.6-3 years in a district of Himachal Pradesh through testing an appropriate THR that meets all guidelines and nutrient requirements. This includes large-scale implementation in 2 districts and capacity building for appropriate technologies within the ICDS system.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Develop, validate, and deploy statistical and machine learning models.
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify patterns, trends, and actionable insights.
• Clean, preprocess, and transform structured and unstructured datasets for analysis and modeling.
• Apply statistical techniques such as regression, hypothesis testing, and time-series and longitudinal data analysis.
• Build and optimize predictive and classification models using machine learning algorithms.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining high code quality and best practices.
• Assist in writing and maintaining Python backend code for integrating models into Mobile/Web applications.
• Maintain clear documentation for data workflows, models, experiments, and performance metrics.
• *Qualifications Required:**
• MSc Statistics or MSc Data Science.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to the Principal Investigator at TATA Himachal THR Project, St. John's Research Institute. To apply, please email a cover letter and curriculum vitae with 3 references (names and email addresses/phone numbers) on or before 14th March 2026 to shameem.b@sjri.res.in and cc to hr@sjri.res.in. You will be responsible for improving the anthropometric nutritional status of children aged 0.6-3 years in a district of Himachal Pradesh through testing an appropriate THR that meets all guidelines and nutrient requirements. This includes large-scale implementation in 2 districts and capacity building for appropriate technologies within the ICDS system.

• *Key Responsibilities:**
• Develop, validate, and deploy statistical and machine learning models.
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify patterns, trends, and actionable insights.
• Clean, preprocess, and transform structured and unstructured datasets for analysis and modeling.
• Apply statistical techniques such as regression, hypothesis testing, and time-series and longitudinal data analysis.
• Build and optimize predictive and classification models using machine learning algorithms.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintaining high code quality and best practices.
• Assist in writing and maintaining Python backend code for integrating models into Mobile/Web applications.
• Maintain clear documentation for data workflows, models, experiments, and performance metrics.
• *Qualifications Required:**
• MSc Statistics or MSc Data Science.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to the Principal Investigator at TATA Himachal THR Project, St. John's Research Institute. To apply, please email a cover letter and curriculum vitae with 3 references (names and email addresses/phone numbers) on or before 14th March 2026 to shameem.b@sjri.res.in and cc to hr@sjri.res.in.