Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company focused on delivering value and efficiency to health plan clients. They are seeking a Staff Data Scientist to advance their machine learning models that identify and audit claims errors, aiming to improve financial outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.

Responsibilities

• Master Claim Audits: Dive into various clinical and coding audits, unpacking the data that drives audit decisions, and understanding past outcomes
• Model Advancement: Curate labeled data, hypothesize new features, and develop ML models that target claims for audit with even greater precision
• Optimize Impact: Measure model performance rigorously, translating outcomes into operational insights and recommendations for our clients
• Tame Complexity: Work with vast, nuanced data pipelines derived from intricate business workflows—often unclean and undefined—to refine them for robust modeling
• Drive Team Success: Enhance data pipelines, modeling infrastructure, and team tools to level up our capabilities and decision-making efficiency
• Grow with Healthcare: Build expertise in healthcare data and make an impact on the industry. Engage with clients and internal experts to refine model insights, ensuring alignment with real business needs

Skills

• You enjoy solving real-world business problems involving data-driven optimization and ML modeling - and have been doing that successfully for a while
• You are comfortable measuring and optimizing the direct business impact of work
• You are experienced with SQL, handling large-scale data, and are comfortable with at least one programming language (Python, R, etc.)
• You have experience building ML models using modern ML approaches like Neural Nets or Tree-ensembles from scratch for new applications - making decisions relating to which supervised labels to use, the metric to optimize for, and the features likely to be useful

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
• Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
• FSA/HSA
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
• Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work
• Compensation also includes meaningful equity, healthcare, unlimited PTO, and more.

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