Staff Data Scientist, Decisioning - AI-Driven Health Tech

Pivotal Health; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pivotal Health is hiring a Staff Data Scientist, Decisioning to improve systems that determine how the company makes high-value decisions in core workflows.

You will work at the intersection of data, experimentation, modeling, economics, and software, applying AI-first approaches to production-ready decisioning across offer engines and operational workflows. This role emphasizes rapid, measurable impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong applied data science or optimization background required.
• Experience moving from analysis to production changes with measurable impact.
• AI-first workflow experience and curiosity to use AI for exploration and iteration.
• Ability to translate business objectives into measurable decisioning systems.

Responsibilities

• Improve decisioning systems that affect pricing and workflow outcomes.
• Design and run experiments to evaluate changes.
• Build models, heuristics, or evaluation frameworks under constraints.
• Translate business objectives into measurable decisioning systems with clear tradeoffs.
• Work with engineers to productionize new logic.

Skills

Applied data science

Optimization

Experimentation

Productionization

AI-first workflow

Decisioning

Job description

Pivotal Health is hiring a Staff Data Scientist, Decisioning to improve systems that determine how the company makes high-value decisions in core workflows.

You will work at the intersection of data, experimentation, modeling, economics, and software, applying AI-first approaches to production-ready decisioning across offer engines and operational workflows. This role emphasizes rapid, measurable impact in a fast-paced environment.