Healthcare Data Scientist – Medicare/Medicaid

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

📋 Description

• Assist with analytical tasks related to data science, machine learning, and generative-AI initiatives.

• Support exploratory data analysis and implement statistical methods along with basic supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.

• Aid in the development of generative-AI solution components, such as prompt pipelines, basic agents, embedding workflows, and retrieval-augmented systems.

• Contribute to predictive modeling, anomaly detection, and analytics aimed at identifying potential fraud, waste, and abuse within Medicare and Medicaid.

• Establish and maintain clean, well-organized datasets utilizing Python and SQL tools.

• Generate visualizations that illustrate trends, patterns, and insights from models.

• Document activities and communicate results with team members and stakeholders.

• Carry out additional responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree with a focus on analytical or technical fields, such as Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Applied Mathematics.

• 1–3 years of experience in data science, analytics, or a similar quantitative discipline.

• Proficiency in using Python or R for data analysis and machine learning applications.

• Familiarity with libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, or Seaborn.

• Experience with generative AI or contemporary machine learning frameworks, including Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, embeddings, or vector databases.

• Knowledge of SQL and cloud data tools like Databricks, Snowflake, or Spark.

• Understanding of fundamental statistics and basic machine learning principles, including feature engineering, train/test splits, and evaluation metrics.

• Capability to create and interpret data visualizations.

• US Citizenship Required: No

• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None

• Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

• Public Trust/Other Required: NACI (T1)

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for medical plans, some including Health Savings Accounts.

• Choices for dental plans.

• Vision plan availability.

• 401(k) plan featuring pre-tax and post-tax contributions with company matching.

• Flexible work weeks where feasible.

• Paid leave for vacation, sick days, personal time, holidays, parental leave, military leave, bereavement, and jury duty.

• Typically, 15 days of paid leave per calendar year for new hires.

• 10 paid holidays annually.

• Up to 160 hours of paid family leave within a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees.

• Short- and long-term disability benefits.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Insurance for accidental death and dismemberment.

• Personal accident insurance options.

• Critical illness insurance available.

• Business travel and accident insurance provided.