Data Scientist 

*Our headquarters are in San Francisco, but this can be a fully remote position!*

We’re looking for an experienced Healthcare Data Scientist or Researcher to help lead the development of the quality of care and cost models that drive Amino’s products. This is an exciting opportunity to use your expertise in statistics or model development to create tools that will directly help patients identify high quality, low cost care.  

As a member of the Data Insights team, you will work with a cross-functional group of data scientists, engineers, and product managers to develop the measures and models that power all of Amino’s products. You will have the opportunity to dive deep into our broad set of health data to discover insights to improve our product offering as well as create new products.

The impact you will have:

• You’ll develop statistical models and measures that will make it possible for users to navigate the healthcare system with ease and confidence.
• You’ll build products that will improve healthcare accessibility and affordability.
• You’ll influence the fundamentals of how we model and use health-related data used by teams across the company.
• You’ll have the opportunity to work in a mission-driven and innovative health tech company where you can develop additional data science and data engineering skills.

What you will do:

• Collaborate with a team of data scientists and health care experts to develop models to identify the highest quality and most cost effective care.
• Develop new data products such as procedure cost comparisons, physician experience profiles, and safety scores from initial inception to business impact while working in a cross functional team.
• Collaborate with a data-focused Product Manager to identify, evaluate, and execute on the highest-impact ways that we can improve the coverage and accuracy of our data products.
• Connect the dots across providers, payers, and patients to refine the conceptual models for how Amino represents real-world claims and provider concepts in our data.

The skills and experience you possess:

• PhD in Biostatistics, Health Services or Health Economics. Or a Masters in Public Health, Biostatistics, Health Economics + several years of data analysis and modeling experience
• Experience building measures, models (including predictive models) using healthcare data
• Expertise in statistical methods 
• Deep knowledge of and prior experience working with healthcare data, such as claims or provider databases
• Experience writing clean, well-tested code in SQL and Python (or R) 
• You are comfortable reading and gaining insights from healthcare literature.
• You have strong analytical abilities and experience exploring and gaining mastery over unfamiliar datasets.
• You value and practice collaboration and feedback. You question and seek feedback on your own work and opinions.
• Your documentation and verbal communication skills are excellent. You can communicate domain-specific knowledge in clear terms to your peers as well as across teams.