Data Scientist II

Cohere Health; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health technology firm is seeking an experienced Data Analyst to perform in-depth analysis of healthcare data and develop analytic solutions. This fully remote position offers a salary range of $105,000 to $120,000 annually, alongside comprehensive benefits including health, retirement plan, and paid leave. The ideal candidate has a background in health outcomes analytics and expertise in statistical methods and programming.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K retirement plan with company match

Flexible spending and health savings account

Up to 184 hours of PTO per year

Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

Qualifications

• 2+ years analytical experience in healthcare analytics.
• Proficient in modeling approaches and data analytics.
• Experience with LLMs and data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Gather business requirements and perform trend analysis.
• Develop and deliver analytic deliverables.
• Train and deliver LLMs and deep learning models.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization

Statistical methods

Analytic tools

NLP

Programming (Python, R, etc.)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in STEM

Tools

Tableau

Kibana

Amazon AWS

Job description

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.

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.

What you’ll do:

• Play a key role in gathering business requirements, using them for trend analysis and uncovering actionable insights, and writing technical requirements; using a variety of analytic tools
• Perform in-depth analysis of healthcare data coupled with data from product and other sources to independently design, develop, and deliver analytic deliverables that meet quality, cost and service objectives
• Leverage a variety of cutting-edge technologies, including LLM and stochastic optimization, to support faster and better decision making
• Train, fine-tune, and deliver LLMs and advanced deep learning models for tasks such as anomaly detection, threat classification, and automated analysis of security data.
• Leveraging data from various sources, e.g., eligibility, medical, pharmacy claims, and data submitted by providers via the prior authorization process, working with Clinical Programs to analyze and simulate expected impact and ROI, e.g., medical expense, administrative cost, improved quality and outcomes
• Present information using data visualization techniques and propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Be able to manage data science projects with some supervision, including understanding business impact, defining scope, setting timeline, methodology, stakeholder communication, deployment, production monitoring and success metrics

What you’ll need:

• 2+ years analytical experience at company where health outcomes were critical to the mission, preferably a healthcare analytics company or population health organization
• Proficient in current modeling approaches, standard scientific methods for intervention based analysis, trend identification, and data analytics
• 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
• Knowledge of NLP, LLMs (extractive and generative), fine-tuning and LLM model development, familiar with higher level trends in LLMs and open-source platforms
• Experience with graph database managing clinical concept is a big plus
• Experience with programming languages (Python, R, 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
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in STEM, public health, biostatistics, economics, or other related field
• Experience with Amazon AWS cloud platform (preferred)

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

The salary range for this position is $105,000 to $120,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus.

Interview Process:

• Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
• Take home Assessment
• Case Study Presentation
• Meet your Hiring Manager
• Behavioral Interviews

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.