Senior Research Scientist, Behavioral Health Analytics

surgohealth; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Surgo Health is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to serve as the analytical backbone of the US Youth Mental Health Tracker (YMHT). You will design methods, write rigorous analyses, and help build the systems that enable scalable insights from healthcare data.

You will work with research leadership and domain experts to ensure data quality, measurement validity, and impactful results for a high-profile, multi-year project with major partners.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent with demonstrated research excellence in health analytics.
• Proven ability to design rigorous statistical methods for real-world data.
• Experience leading analyses on large healthcare datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design methods and perform rigorous analyses for YMHT.
• Engineer data-driven tooling to support tracking and reporting.
• Collaborate with leadership and domain experts to deliver insights.

Skills

Advanced analytics

Healthcare data

Data modeling

Statistical analysis

R/Python

SQL

Education

PhD in Biostatistics/Statistics/ML

Tools

R

Python

SQL

SAS

Job description

Surgo Health is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to serve as the analytical backbone of the US Youth Mental Health Tracker (YMHT). You will design methods, write rigorous analyses, and help build the systems that enable scalable insights from healthcare data.

You will work with research leadership and domain experts to ensure data quality, measurement validity, and impactful results for a high-profile, multi-year project with major partners.