Data Scientist, Actuarial

Data Scientist focused on actuarial modeling for Sprinter Health. Building models to evaluate healthcare cost, risk, and long-term economic impact.

Posted 7/27/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

Key responsibilities & impact

Build total-cost-of-care, PMPM, and MLR models from claims data to quantify the long-term impact of Sprinter’s programs.
Project how interventions change cost, utilization, and risk over multi-year horizons, and quantify the uncertainty around those projections.
Produce model outputs and tables that a payer’s actuaries can plug directly into their pricing, reserving, and bid work.
Represent Sprinter in MLR and medical-economics conversations with health plans; go toe-to-toe with their actuaries.
Turn analysis into value narratives that quality, risk, and finance teams can act on.
Help the commercial team price and sell Sprinter’s impact on an actuarial basis.
Define the yardstick for whether an intervention actually changed cost and outcomes, not just whether it correlated with them.
Partner with Data Science on the causal and experimental design behind those measurements.
Bring an honest view of the line between value we can prove and value we can only assert.

What you’ll need

Deep experience building actuarial or health-economic models from administrative claims: total cost of care, PMPM, utilization, trend, and risk.
Command of the methods payers price on — MLR, risk adjustment, and multi-year projection — and the judgment to know their limits.
Strong SQL and Python or R, with the ability to build and own your models end to end.
Ability to hold your own with actuaries and medical-economics teams, and to explain the analysis to non-technical stakeholders.
Honesty about causal inference — what a given design can and cannot claim.

Comp & perks

Meaningful pre-IPO equity
Medical, dental, and vision plans 100% paid for you and your dependents
Flexible PTO + 10 paid holidays per year
401(k) with match
16-week parental leave policy for birthing parent, 8 weeks for all other parents
HSA + FSA contributions
Life insurance, plus short and long-term disability coverage
Free daily lunch in-office
Annual learning stipend