Senior Manager, Applied Science

coherehealth; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life, and/dis

401(k) with company match

Flexible time off

Up to 14 weeks parental leave

Pet insurance

Job summary

Cohere Health seeks a senior leader to build and scale applied AI for automating complex clinical and administrative workflows. This player-coach role combines hands-on ML work with team leadership across the full lifecycle from problem framing to deployment and monitoring.

You will drive collaboration with clinical operations, product, and platform teams to align research with business priorities, while mentoring and recruiting future talent. This is a fully remote role with limited travel.

Qualifications

• PhD with 7+ years or MS with 10+ years in ML, data science or applied AI.
• Experience leading technical teams (2+ years).
• Production experience with LLMs and classical ML techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of applied scientists.
• Translate healthcare problems into scalable ML solutions.
• Validate models with rigorous statistics for clinical use.
• Partner with AI engineering to deploy scalable solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Applied AI

Statistical methods

Python

AWS

Education

PhD in ML/CS/Applied AI

MS in ML/CS/Applied AI

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

AWS

Job description

Role overview

A senior leadership role focused on building and scaling applied AI capabilities that automate and augment complex clinical and administrative healthcare workflows. The position is a player-coach model, combining hands-on technical contributions with team leadership, and owns the full lifecycle of machine learning solutions from problem framing through deployment and monitoring. Work centers on structured and unstructured healthcare data to power intelligent systems that support prior authorization and broader clinical decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of applied scientists, cultivating a collaborative, high-performance environment
• Translate complex healthcare business and clinical problems into scalable machine learning and data science solutions
• Validate models with methodological and statistical rigor so they are reliable, reproducible, and safe for clinical use
• Partner with AI engineering to scale and deploy solutions that create measurable healthcare impact
• Collaborate cross-functionally with clinical operations, product, engineering, and platform teams to align research with business priorities
• Communicate technical concepts, methodologies, and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Contribute to recruiting, onboarding, and ongoing development of team members

Requirements

• PhD with 7+ years of experience, or MS with 10+ years of experience, in machine learning, data science, or applied AI
• Minimum of 2+ years leading and managing technical teams
• Production experience leveraging both modern language models and classical ML techniques
• Strong background in statistical methods, experimental design, and model evaluation
• Proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or scikit-learn
• Hands-on experience working with AWS infrastructure

Nice to have

• Background in transactional healthcare areas such as utilization management, payment integrity, risk adjustment, quality, or care management
• Experience using language models to drive process automation in healthcare settings
• Familiarity with retrieval and relational extraction applied to unstructured clinical notes and patient history documentation

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote with approximately 15% travel for onboarding and occasional in-person team meetings
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plus an employee assistance program
• 401(k) with company match, plus flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Flexible time off plus company holidays
• Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• Pet insurance
• Annual salary range of $225,000 to $240,000, plus a bonus and total benefits package