Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join Atropos Health as a Senior Data Scientist and contribute to the development and deployment of data science products within a collaborative environment. You will work closely with product, clinical, and engineering teams to translate complex projects into workable solutions. Leveraging your expertise in data manipulation, model development, and deployment, you will ensure the creation of rapid and reliable real-world evidence. This role requires strong technical skills in Python, R, SQL, and cloud infrastructure, along with a deep understanding of healthcare data and product needs. The position offers a remote-first work environment with a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, parental leave, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• Degree in Clinical Informatics, Bioinformatics, CS, Engineering, Epidemiology, Statistics, or a quantitative discipline
• Experience manipulating large data sets and developing and deploying models onto production infrastructure
• Fluency with Python, R, SQL, git, Linux and cloud infrastructure (AWS and Docker). You have published a Python or R package before and are familiar with virtual environments
• Sufficiently knowledgeable about healthcare to understand product needs
• Excellent problem-solving, project management and team collaboration skills
• Flexible thinking: you know how to re-frame problems to find practical solutions

Responsibilities

• Work with Product, Clinical and Engineering stakeholder teams to understand product and clinical requirements and deliver solutions that balance technical rigor with practical application
• Test, productionalize and maintain data science products with software engineering best practices including code management and documentation
• Articulate and deconstruct complex projects into workable solutions and identify appropriate data and methods
• Practice good judgment and solicit information to make good and timely design decisions
• Manage and drive projects, working with stakeholders to address dependencies and gaps
• Solicit user feedback and propose opportunities for product innovation (e.g. to add new functionalities, improve model performance, automate processes)
• Stay abreast of research and conduct literature and empirical research to propose appropriate solutions while sidestepping less promising ones
• Excellent writing skills – you may be asked to contribute to our technical blogs

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional skills in epidemiology, precision medicine, predictive modeling, using LLMs, RWE, causal inference, recommenders, NLP, data engineering, MLOps or DevOps will be a plus
• Knowledge of relevant medical coding terminology (e.g., ICD, CPT, LOINC, RxNORM) is a plus
• Masters or PhD training in a quantitative field is a plus

Benefits

• Health Benefits . Our benefit package includes employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD, and LTD insurance. We also offer FSA
• Parental Leave . We offer up to twelve weeks of paid leave for new parents who have been at the company for 6+ months
• Financial Wellness . Save for retirement through our 401k plan with Human Interest
• Flexible Work Environment . We're a remote first company with a flexible vacation policy
• Home Office Stipend . All full-time employees will receive a stipend to support their remote office setup
• Offsites . As a remote company we take time 2-3 times a year to get together in small teams and all together as a company