Lead Data Scientist

A world-leading consulting firm, renowned for its expertise in actuarial science, information technology, and clinical practice, is seeking a talented individual to join their team. They develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance, health IT, and life sciences clients, fostering an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture that values innovation and transparency.

The Role

• Research, develop, deploy, and maintain traditional AI/ML models following industry best practices
• Work extensively with GenAI models to construct exciting solutions for internal and external use cases
• Coordinate with Product, Business Development, ML Engineering, and IT to bring new data science products to market
• Drive best practices and continuous improvement on the data science team, influencing model design and experimentation strategy
• Build and enhance products through advanced analytical expertise, including constructing and validating GenAI and machine learning solutions

What You'll Need

• 10+ years of professional experience using AI/ML to create high ROI commercial data science solutions
• Expertise with Electronic Health Records or unstructured data analysis
• Expert data scientist with demonstrable capability in building traditional AI/ML models (Supervised, Unsupervised, Deep Learning, NLP)
• Expert understanding of NLP and generative AI, including effective use, fine-tuning, and evaluation of models
• Hands-on experience building GenAI applications (e.g., RAG systems, LLM evaluation frameworks)
• Expert level Python programmer, with some experience in R and/or SQL
• Expert user of Databricks or similar cloud-based model development ecosystem (mlflow, data catalogs, compute cluster configuration)
• Sufficient understanding of software engineering best practices (Git, unit testing, local development, environment management)

What's On Offer

• An entrepreneurial and collaborative culture with room to grow skillset and career
• Competitive compensation and benefits, with a voice in company direction
• Access to a variety of learning, mentoring opportunities, and employee resource groups
• Opportunity to work on innovative products and solve complex healthcare-related problems

Apply via Haystack today!