Senior Applied Scientist – Decisioning

Pivotal Health

Senior Applied Scientist focused on optimizing decision-making systems at Pivotal Health. Work involves data science and production systems in healthcare reimbursement processes.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeSanta Monica • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Improve decisioning systems that affect pricing, offer behavior, workflow routing, and other economically meaningful product outcomes.
Design and run experiments that help us understand whether product, rules, prompt, or model changes are actually improving performance.
Build models, heuristics, optimization logic, or evaluation frameworks that improve real-world outcomes under operational constraints.
Help translate business objectives into measurable decisioning systems with clear tradeoffs and success criteria.
Work closely with engineers to productionize new logic rather than stopping at notebooks or offline recommendations.
Help design feedback loops that connect model and workflow behavior back to product and business outcomes.
Contribute to configurable rules systems and other controls that make decisioning easier to manage and improve over time.
Use AI as a force multiplier in your own workflow and help the team move faster by bringing strong AI-native habits.
Balance rigor and speed in an environment where shipping matters and iteration is constant.

Requirements

What you’ll need

experience in pricing, revenue optimization, marketplace ranking, matching, bidding, lending, credit, underwriting, or ad tech systems
experience designing and interpreting experiments in production environments
experience with optimization, decisioning, forecasting, or applied statistics in high-leverage product systems
experience partnering tightly with engineers to productionize models, logic, or recommendations
experience with Python and backend-adjacent technical workflows
experience turning messy business problems into measurable systems with clear operating tradeoffs
experience in healthcare or other operationally complex industries

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, including equity
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
Flexible time off
Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

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Hard Skills & Tools

pricingrevenue optimizationmarketplace rankingmatchingbiddinglendingcreditunderwritingad techPython

Soft Skills

decisioningexperiment designoptimizationforecastingapplied statisticscollaborationproblem-solvingiterationcommunicationfeedback loops