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Biostatistician roles sit squarely in EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship territory: employers file a PERM labor certification with DOL, then an I-140 petition with USCIS, before you adjust status to permanent residency. Pharmaceutical, clinical research, and government health agencies regularly sponsor qualified candidates with advanced degrees in biostatistics or related quantitative fields.
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We are hiring a Biostatistician (Full-time) to join the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will query large administrative claims databases to create analytical tables that the individual will use for statistical analysis in public reports or peer-reviewed journal publications. An ideal candidate should be proficient with statistical packages, databases, and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis, or visualization. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Matlab, SQL, Python, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, MapReduce, Java, Tableau, Excel or other big data frameworks.
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position Summary:
The Center for Health Care Data is the largest research accessible, healthcare data repository in Texas. The Center uses data to support improvements in health practice and policy. This position provides an opportunity for a recent graduate or early career professional to apply statistical analysis to this goal. The role requires using large administrative, clinical and social service datasets. The individual will be an integral member of teams of researchers, programmers, analysts and public policy experts tasked with producing evidence-based research on a variety of challenging and impactful projects.
Position Key Accountabilities:
- Collaborates with investigators to determine study design, contribute to protocol development, and write statistical analysis plans.
- Performs statistical analysis and inference, and writes and presents reports summarizing findings including publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- May write program code to analyze data using statistical analysis software.
- Ensures high-quality statistical support is provided for investigational studies, projects, registries and basic research using advanced statistical skills and knowledge of clinical research.
- Maintains expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology.
- May conduct ad hoc analyses.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills:
- Demonstrates proficiency with statistical methods and applications in clinical or population research.
- Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies.
- Proficient in SQL.
- Experience with additional statistical packages, databases and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis or visualization is preferred. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Python, Java, Tableau, Excel.
Minimum Education:
Master's Degree in related health science required Doctorate Degree - PhD preferred
Minimum Experience:
2 years of statistician experience required Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies required SAS experienced preferred
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
INTRODUCTION
We are hiring a Biostatistician (Full-time) to join the UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Houston, Texas. In this role, you will query large administrative claims databases to create analytical tables that the individual will use for statistical analysis in public reports or peer-reviewed journal publications. An ideal candidate should be proficient with statistical packages, databases, and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis, or visualization. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Matlab, SQL, Python, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, MapReduce, Java, Tableau, Excel or other big data frameworks.
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position Summary:
The Center for Health Care Data is the largest research accessible, healthcare data repository in Texas. The Center uses data to support improvements in health practice and policy. This position provides an opportunity for a recent graduate or early career professional to apply statistical analysis to this goal. The role requires using large administrative, clinical and social service datasets. The individual will be an integral member of teams of researchers, programmers, analysts and public policy experts tasked with producing evidence-based research on a variety of challenging and impactful projects.
Position Key Accountabilities:
- Collaborates with investigators to determine study design, contribute to protocol development, and write statistical analysis plans.
- Performs statistical analysis and inference, and writes and presents reports summarizing findings including publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- May write program code to analyze data using statistical analysis software.
- Ensures high-quality statistical support is provided for investigational studies, projects, registries and basic research using advanced statistical skills and knowledge of clinical research.
- Maintains expertise in state-of-the-art data manipulation and statistical methodology.
- May conduct ad hoc analyses.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Certification/Skills:
- Demonstrates proficiency with statistical methods and applications in clinical or population research.
- Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies.
- Proficient in SQL.
- Experience with additional statistical packages, databases and programming languages for data preparation, storage, transformation, analysis or visualization is preferred. Examples include R, SAS, STATA, SPSS, Python, Java, Tableau, Excel.
Minimum Education:
Master's Degree in related health science required Doctorate Degree - PhD preferred
Minimum Experience:
2 years of statistician experience required Experience in data analysis of large administrative datasets (claims, registries, EMR) and observational studies required SAS experienced preferred
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Biostatistician
Align your degree to PERM's specialty occupation standard
PERM requires your employer to define a job requiring at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. A master's or PhD in biostatistics or statistics strengthens your EB-2 candidacy and simplifies the prevailing-wage determination step.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Pharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, and federal health agencies file PERM regularly for biostatisticians. Search DOL's OFLC disclosure data by SOC code 15-2041 to identify employers who have sponsored this role before.
Use Migrate Mate to find green card sponsoring roles
Filtering by green card sponsorship intent saves weeks of manual research. Migrate Mate surfaces biostatistician roles at employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 filing history, so you apply to the right companies from the start.
Verify the prevailing wage before accepting an offer
DOL sets the prevailing wage for your specific job location and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to confirm your offered salary meets the wage level tied to your role before your employer submits the PERM application.
Negotiate a green card commitment in your offer letter
Ask employers to include a PERM sponsorship timeline in your written offer. Many biostatistics hiring managers are familiar with this process; getting the commitment documented before you start protects you if internal priorities shift during the 12- to 18-month PERM process.
Start the I-140 filing as soon as PERM is certified
DOL PERM certification locks in your priority date. Filing the I-140 with USCIS immediately after certification preserves that date, which matters most if you're from a backlogged country and need to track your place in the visa queue.
Green Card Biostatistician: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a biostatistician role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most biostatistician positions qualify for EB-2 because they require a master's degree or PhD in biostatistics, statistics, or a related quantitative discipline. Roles with only a bachelor's degree requirement typically fall under EB-3. Your employer's job description and the degree they list as a minimum requirement determines which category USCIS and DOL will use to evaluate the petition.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for biostatisticians?
H-1B visa is temporary status tied to an annual cap and lottery, while PERM-based green card sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no annual lottery. The green card process takes longer, typically two to four years for most nationalities at the EB-2 and EB-3 levels, but it removes the recurring renewal cycle and lottery uncertainty that H-1B holders face every few years.
Which industries sponsor biostatisticians for green cards most often?
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies sponsor biostatisticians at the highest volume because clinical trial and drug approval work requires permanent staff. Contract research organizations, academic medical centers, and federal agencies like the NIH and CDC also file PERM regularly. You can verify which specific employers have a filing history by searching DOL OFLC disclosure data filtered to the biostatistician SOC code.
How can I find biostatistician jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Most general job boards don't filter by green card sponsorship intent, which means you can't tell from a standard listing whether an employer will actually file PERM. Migrate Mate is built specifically for this: it surfaces roles at employers with documented EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship history, so you're not spending time applying to companies that won't support the process.
What happens to my green card process if I change employers during PERM?
If you change employers before your I-140 is approved, your PERM certification and any pending petition are tied to the original employer and cannot transfer. If your I-140 has been approved for at least 180 days and your adjustment of status application has been pending that long, you may be able to port to a similar role under a different employer using the portability provisions in AC21. An immigration attorney can confirm whether your role qualifies as sufficiently similar.