Senior Data Scientist - Healthcare Analytics (Remote, EST)

Junction; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium healthcare coverage

Remote-first working (EST)

Home office equipment budget

Learning budget

Wellness budget

Pension/401k

36 days PTO

Equity

Company offsites

Job summary

Junction is hiring a Data Scientist to own high-leverage modeling and evaluation across diagnostics and AI-enabled product development. You’ll partner with data, product engineering and leadership to drive an analytical roadmap that informs product decisions and business outcomes.

The role requires leading methodologies, research roadmaps, and decision frameworks for data-driven product improvements. Remote-first with EST timezone alignment, equity Offered.

Qualifications

• Strong track record of leading high-stakes analytical work that influenced product decisions.
• Deep foundation in statistical inference, experimental design, and model evaluation.
• Strong Python and/or R skills with experience on large real-world datasets.
• Experience building predictive or decision-support models in production environments.
• Experience partnering with engineering to deploy analytics to production.
• Ability to operate at strategic and hands-on levels; clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the research and modeling work underlying Junction's highest-priority data science opportunities across diagnostics, clinical workflows, and AI-enabled product features.
• Define rigorous frameworks for measurement, experimentation, and causal evaluation to distinguish signal from noise and justify decisions.
• Lead development of predictive models, segmentation approaches, risk or routing logic, and other statistical systems driving product strategy.
• Build the analytical foundation behind customer-facing features—from model development to validation and performance tracking.
• Partner with engineering to ensure models and analytics can be deployed in production and used in real workflows.
• Establish how Junction evaluates data-driven features, including methodology, thresholds, monitoring, and performance reviews.
• Communicate complex technical findings clearly to executives and technical peers.

Skills

Python

R

Statistical inference

Experimental design

Observational analysis

Model evaluation

Communication

Stakeholder management

Startup environment

Job description

Junction is hiring a Data Scientist to own high-leverage modeling and evaluation across diagnostics and AI-enabled product development. You’ll partner with data, product engineering and leadership to drive an analytical roadmap that informs product decisions and business outcomes.

The role requires leading methodologies, research roadmaps, and decision frameworks for data-driven product improvements. Remote-first with EST timezone alignment, equity Offered.