Applied Data Scientist - 100% Remote

About the Role

Join a healthcare technology team as an Applied Data Scientist, responsible for customer data science projects from study design through production deployment. You will work directly with healthcare organizations to transform complex data into actionable insights that support better patient care and business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage multiple enterprise healthcare accounts, covering data integration, pilot design, production pipelines, and ongoing operations.
• Design and explain commercially relevant experimental studies, including predictive analyses that identify patients who may benefit from earlier care.
• Build automated, customer-specific pipelines to train models, generate scores, and deliver insights at scale.
• Collaborate with clinical, analytics, and IT stakeholders to translate business challenges into data-driven solutions.
• Identify recurring patterns across customer engagements and communicate high-value requirements to product teams.

Required Qualifications

• At least 4 years of applied data science experience, with strong client-facing skills and the ability to lead working sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Experience designing and explaining commercially relevant studies, evaluating model performance accurately, and communicating methodologies clearly.
• Hands-on experience developing production-ready Python applications using pandas, scikit-learn, and Airflow, including shipping code beyond notebooks.
• Experience building distributed data and machine learning pipelines using Spark or PySpark and delivering complex systems end to end.
• Healthcare or life sciences experience involving claims, electronic health records (EHR), HL7/FHIR, laboratory data, population health analytics, or internal healthcare datasets.
• Experience with cloud data and machine learning tools such as AWS, S3, Glue, EMR, MWAA, SageMaker, SQL, or Postgres.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a healthcare technology startup.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary ranges from $180,000 to $240,000.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location and Work Arrangement

• Remote position within the United States, with New York, United States, listed as the primary location.