Biostatistician

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop the statistical methods that underpin Hi Rasmus’s clinical-impact framework, encompassing benchmarks and interpretation techniques.

• Validate outcome and social-validity measures employing psychometric approaches.

• Evaluate the conclusions that data can substantiate and communicate findings to the Head of Research & Clinical Impact.

• Design and conduct analyses on large-scale real-world clinical datasets.

• Tackle issues related to confounding factors, missing data, clustered or repeated measures, and the attribution of progress to the care provided.

• Draft statistical analysis plans and articulate analytic sections of protocols.

• Contribute to prospective studies, partnerships, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions.

• Establish connections between short-term progress indicators and long-term outcomes.

• Create thresholds, flagging or stratification methods, and interpretation techniques.

• Supply statistical specifications for Product and value-based care models.

• Co-author research publications and white papers.

• Supply the analytical foundation for the annual Hi Rasmus Clinical Impact Report and evidence packages.

• Contribute to data-use standards and the statistical components of research agreements.

• Collaborate with the Head of Research & Clinical Impact, Data & Engineering, Clinical Product Strategy, Product, and Legal & Compliance teams.

• Establish technical standards for documented, reproducible, and peer-reviewed analyses.

• Uphold scientific independence and report findings that may be favorable, mixed, or inconclusive.

⛳️ Requirements

• A master's or doctoral degree in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, public health, quantitative psychology, or a related discipline.

• Over 5 years of experience applying statistical techniques to real-world or observational data, preferably in healthcare, behavioral health, education, or health services research.

• Strong foundation in regression, multilevel and mixed-effects modeling, longitudinal analysis, risk adjustment, and causal inference, prediction, or stratification methods for observational data.

• Proficient management of missing data.

• Experience with psychometric and survey measurement methods, including reliability, validity, and factor analysis.

• Proficient in R or Python and SQL.

• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git.

• Commitment to reproducible analytic workflows.

• Experience in writing statistical analysis plans.

• Knowledge of research ethics requirements, including IRB review.

• Background in contributing to peer-reviewed publications, posters, or conference presentations.

• Ability to articulate complex statistical findings, including uncertainty and limitations, to clinical, executive, and non-technical audiences.

• Experience with autism services or applied behavior analysis data, including single-case experimental designs, is beneficial but not mandatory.

• Familiarity with value-based care or healthcare quality measurement is advantageous but not required.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% covered health, dental, and vision premiums for employee-only standard plan.

• Employer-sponsored short-term disability coverage.

• Employer-sponsored life insurance.

• Optional group benefits: AD&D, long-term disability.

• Participation in a 401k plan through Empower.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Potential for career advancement within the company.

• Paid Time Off: 10 vacation days, 5 sick days, 7 paid holidays + 3 floating holidays.

• All parents/caregivers: 6 weeks fully paid parental leave.

• Birthing parents: Up to 14 weeks paid parental leave.

• Fully remote and flexible work environment.

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the Autism healthcare sector.

• Flexibility, autonomy, and work-life balance.

• Space for creative thinking and professional growth.