Senior Data Scientist

Opportunity Overview:

We are looking for innovative and creative individuals who seize opportunities to uncover hidden drivers, impacts, and key influences to support our product, leadership and clinical teams by applying optimization and statistical methods on a variety of data. You will work closely with the clinical program and product teams to support decision-making and will dig into a wide range of strategic and clinical problems.

As a growing organization, we have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about helping providers and patients and this is a position that offers the ability to make a substantial impact on the company with rapid growth opportunities. You will be part of a growing data science team within the technology organization. 

What you’ll do:

• Drive strategic data science initiatives that directly impact our product roadmap and business outcomes while working as part of a cross-functional team.

• Take ownership of data science milestones, requirements gathering and identify risks and opportunities with various data sources.

• Independently lead in-depth analyses of a variety of healthcare and product data sources to enable data-driven decision-making driving business impact and ROI.
• Mentor junior data scientists in development and statistical best practices, conduct code reviews, and communication with non-technical audiences.

• Strong communication skills with the unique ability to translate business needs from stakeholders into data science technical requirements and translate data science results back to business and clinical units.
• Present information using data visualization techniques and propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Design and conduct causal inference analyses using healthcare claims, EHR and similar data.
• Leverage a variety of cutting-edge technologies, including LLM and stochastic optimization, to support faster and better decision making

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years hands-on data science experience at company where health outcomes were critical to the mission, preferably a healthcare analytics company or population health organization
• Demonstrated leadership experience in healthcare data science  with a track record of influencing product strategy and business outcomes
• Proficient in current modeling approaches, standard scientific methods for intervention based analysis, trend identification, causal inference, and pattern detection
• Strong experience using a variety of data mining/data analysis methods, utilizing a variety of analytic tools, building and implementing models, creating algorithms and running simulations
• Experience with graph database managing clinical concept is a big plus
• Experience in prompt engineering and context optimization with LLM
• Experience with programming languages (Python,PySpark, Scala and/or Spark SQL)
• Strong interest and understanding of EMR data, Claims and SDOH data
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Kibana, preferred
• MSc or higher degree in a data science/ analytics, statistics, mathematics, engineering related field

What you’ll need bonus edition:

• Experience with Amazon AWS cloud platform 
• Experience with deep learning models (e.g., transformers), LLM
• Experience working with unstructured healthcare data (e.g., clinical notes, call transcripts)

Pay & Perks:

💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program 

📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account 

🏝️ Up to 184 hours (23 days) of PTO per year + company holidays

👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave 

🐶 Pet insurance  

The salary range for this position is $120,000 to $160,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
2. Meet your Hiring Manager!
3. Take Home Exercise 
4. Presentation of Take Home Exercise 
5. Executive Interview 

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled.  That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.

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