Lead Data Scientist

Ascension; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascension is seeking a Lead Data Scientist focused on Machine Learning and Generative AI to tackle complex healthcare challenges. You will lead teams in building innovative applications, collaborating across departments to ensure goals are met effectively. This remote position offers the chance to make significant impacts on healthcare delivery.

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Community involvement opportunities

Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma with 3+ years, Associate's or Bachelor's with 2+ years, or 7 years of specific experience.
• 3 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of AI applications including content search and modeling.
• Serve as a technical consultant to project managers.
• Monitor deployed models for performance and feature drift.

Skills

Machine Learning

Generative AI

SQL

Python

Looker

A/B testing

Clustering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

High School diploma equivalency

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Job description

We Are Hiring

• Department:Ascension Data Science Institute
• Schedule:Full-time, 8 hour day shift, Monday - Friday
• Location:Remote

What You Will Do

We are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to drive the development and implementation of Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions to address complex healthcare challenges. In this role, you will lead cross-functional teams in building end-to-end clinical and enterprise applications, collaborating closely with stakeholders to define requirements, align goals, and evaluate impact.

• Serve as a technical consultant to project and product managers across multiple functions and departments.
• Lead the design and implementation of Machine Learning and Generative AI applications, including content search, chat, and traditional data science modeling.
• Query, analyze, transform, and present data using SQL, Python, and Looker within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency with Generative AI topics such as multi-agent workflows, language embeddings, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM task evaluation, and synthetic data creation.
• Expertise in A/B testing, clustering, ensemble modeling, dimensionality reduction, normal behavior modeling, unstructured data.
• Familiarity with containerized applications and CI/CD pipelines within Kubernetes environments.
• Monitor deployed models for performance, feature drift, and other observability metrics.

What You Will Need

Education:

• High School diploma equivalency with 3 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree with 2 years of cumulative experience OR 7 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
• 3 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

#internalops #ADSI #LI-remote

Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.

As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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Benefits

Paid time off (PTO) Various health insurance options & wellness plans Retirement benefits including employer match plans Long-term & short-term disability Employee assistance programs (EAP) Parental leave & adoption assistance Tuition reimbursement Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.