AI & Data Scientist (Remote)

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solutions: translate ambiguous healthcare and operational problems into AI/ML models that deliver measurable impact by selecting methods, building data/models, deploying services, instrumenting observability, and real-world feedback loops.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Clinical leaders to embed data science into workflows like claims processing, utilization management, provider network optimization, risk adjustment, etc.
• Deliver clinical intelligence features such as autonomous chart review, disease detection, compliance forecasting, and quality analytics.
• Build AI/NLP/LLM models for document understanding and information extraction, including OCR, NER, and vision models.
• Advance quality and payment integrity: create models and automated QA to reduce manual review, increase accuracy, and surface documentation anomalies and audit risk.
• Champion engineering excellence: internal libraries, reusable components, coding standards, code reviews, and clear documentation.
• Own the lifecycle: monitoring, drift detection, alerting, and post-deployment reviews.

Experience Job Requirements

• 2-5 years delivering production-grade data science or ML software with measurable impact.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, modular design, API design, documentation.
• Proficiency in Python plus SQL; experience building reusable packages, utilities, and CLI tools.
• Applied knowledge of ML (tree ensembles, boosting, NLP/LLMs, deep learning) and experimental design.
• Experience with high-volume, high-dimensional, and unstructured data; strong data quality mindset.
• Experience with Git workflows, code reviews, CI/CD.
• Excellent data visualization and storytelling skills.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.

Preferred

• Healthcare domain experience; familiarity with CMS/Medicare Advantage operations.
• Document understanding systems with OCR/NER and LLM pipelines.
• Experience with NoSQL and performance optimization.
• Contributions to internal frameworks or open-source; published work.

Education Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering or similar technical field.

Preferred

• MSc/PhD in CS, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or related field.

Required Specialized Skills

• Python, SQL
• Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake)
• MLflow, Unity Catalog, Git, CI/CD, Docker
• REST/GraphQL APIs, orchestration
• NLP/LLM & Vision: OCR, NER, embeddings

Pay Range

$149,882.00 - $224,823.00

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