Senior Data Scientist, Healthcare
Kontakt.io
full-time
Posted on:
Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AirflowAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformHadoopKubernetesPythonPyTorchSparkSQLTensorflow
About the role
- Design and deploy advanced machine learning, operations research, and optimization solutions across healthcare operations.
- Work alongside clinicians, data engineers, product managers, and hospital administrators to translate healthcare challenges into actionable strategies.
- Translate complex healthcare challenges into actionable strategies.
- Ensure adherence to healthcare privacy regulations and implement secure workflows for data handling and deployment.
- Design experiments, pilot studies, and A/B tests to assess intervention impact.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data science, predictive analytics, or related roles.
- Exposure to EHR data structures and workflows in healthcare.
- Proficiency in Python or R, with experience in libraries/frameworks like sci-kit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with distributed computing platforms like Spark or Hadoop.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and MLOps best practices.
- Knowledge of LLMs, NLP, and Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Master’s or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related quantitative discipline.