Staff Data Scientist | Modeling

Machinify; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

FSA/HSA

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Wellness perks

Job summary

Machinify, a leading healthcare intelligence company, seeks a Staff Data Scientist to advance claim-audit models and build scalable ML infrastructure. You will curate features, select labels and metrics, and drive improvements across complex healthcare datasets to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Join a team delivering equity, competitive salary, and comprehensive health benefits while working remotely anywhere in the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience solving real-world business problems using data-driven optimization and ML modeling.
• Ability to measure and optimize business impact of work.
• Proficient with SQL, large-scale data handling, and at least one programming language (Python, R, etc.).
• Experience building ML models from scratch for new applications including selection of labels, metrics and features.

Responsibilities

• Master Claim Audits: analyze clinical and coding audits to understand data driving decisions.
• Model Advancement: curate labeled data, hypothesize features, and build models to target audits.
• Optimize Impact: rigorously measure model performance and translate into client insights.
• Tame Complexity: work with large, messy data pipelines to enable robust modeling.
• Drive Team Success: enhance data pipelines, modeling infrastructure, and tools.
• Grow with Healthcare: build domain expertise and align model insights with business needs.

Skills

SQL

Python

ML modeling

Neural nets

Tree ensembles

Data pipelines

Job description

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.

Our team builds machine learning models for some of the largest health plans in the country to identify and audit claims errors from simple errors to outright fraud. Large insurance payers receive tens of millions of claims each year, of which they only are able to audit less than 10%. Our claim selection models help with selecting the right set of claims to audit and recover hundreds of millions of dollars each year reducing wasted medical spend. We have made significant progress already, with models that significantly outperform even selection by human experts but there are still many improvements to be made.

We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to advance our models further. In addition to building best-in-class models, this person will create technical frameworks and tools to help the team achieve greater scale and improved business outcomes.

What You’ll Do:

• Master Claim Audits: Dive into various clinical and coding audits, unpacking the data that drives audit decisions, and understanding past outcomes.

• Model Advancement: Curate labeled data, hypothesize new features, and develop ML models that target claims for audit with even greater precision.

• Optimize Impact: Measure model performance rigorously, translating outcomes into operational insights and recommendations for our clients.

• Tame Complexity: Work with vast, nuanced data pipelines derived from intricate business workflows—often unclean and undefined—to refine them for robust modeling.

• Drive Team Success: Enhance data pipelines, modeling infrastructure, and team tools to level up our capabilities and decision-making efficiency.

• Grow with Healthcare: Build expertise in healthcare data and make an impact on the industry. Engage with clients and internal experts to refine model insights, ensuring alignment with real business needs.

What You Bring:

• You enjoy solving real-world business problems involving data-driven optimization and ML modeling - and have been doing that successfully for a while.

• You are comfortable measuring and optimizing the direct business impact of work.

• You are experienced with SQL, handling large-scale data, and are comfortable with at least one programming language (Python, R, etc.).

• You have experience building ML models using modern ML approaches like Neural Nets or Tree-ensembles from scratch for new applications - making decisions relating to which supervised labels to use, the metric to optimize for, and the features likely to be useful

What We Offer

• Workfrom anywhere in the US!Machinifyis digital-first.
• Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
• FSA/HSA
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
• Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels and the base salary can range from $180k-$260k+ based on your assessed level. Compensation also includes meaningful equity, healthcare, unlimited PTO, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Machinify is an employment at will employer. We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know. See our Candidate Privacy Notice at: https://www.machinify.com/candidate-privacy-notice/