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Midi Health · 1 month ago

Senior/Staff Data Scientist

Palo Alto, California

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

5+ years exp

Midi Health is the fastest-growing virtual clinic focused on women’s midlife health, delivering insurance-covered care for women navigating hormone-related health challenges. The Senior/Staff Data Scientist will tackle complex optimization problems in a dynamic healthcare marketplace, blending technical execution with strategic business impact to improve patient-clinician matching and operational efficiency.

Health CareMedicalTherapeuticsWomen's

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, build, and deploy optimization and machine learning systems that power intelligent matching between patients and clinicians across a multi-dimensional constraint space

Develop and maintain production code in our core codebase, collaborating directly with engineering teams on architecture, implementation, and deployment

Build sophisticated forecasting models that account for lead-time dynamics, where today's demand signals translate into future supply needs weeks later

Create optimization algorithms for resource allocation problems involving competing objectives: efficiency, quality, equity, and business constraints

Develop monitoring and inference systems to capture demand signals, capacity constraints, and network gaps in real-time

Build predictive models leveraging growing datasets to improve decision-making speed and accuracy in resource-constrained environments

Translate complex marketplace dynamics into actionable insights for demand and supply leaders

Develop analytical frameworks and decision-support tools that guide hiring, capacity planning, and market expansion strategies

Identify and quantify marketplace inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and opportunities for improvement

Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to balance competing priorities and define success metrics

Qualification

Advanced Python programmingSQL expertiseMachine LearningOptimizationSimulation & ForecastingStatistical rigorMarketplace optimization experienceQueueing theoryHealthcare operations experienceProduction codebases experienceEnd-to-end ownershipPragmatic problem-solvingLeadership & Communication

Required

Advanced Python programming: You write clean, efficient, production-quality code and are comfortable working in large codebases

SQL expertise: Complex queries, performance optimization, and data pipeline design

Machine Learning: Hands-on experience building, deploying, and monitoring ML models in production

Optimization: Strong foundation in mathematical optimization (linear programming, mixed-integer programming, constraint satisfaction, heuristic methods)

Simulation & Forecasting: Experience modeling dynamic systems, time-series forecasting, and scenario analysis

Statistical rigor: Deep understanding of experimental design, causal inference, and uncertainty quantification

5+ years of relevant experience (Senior) or 8+ years (Staff), with demonstrated progression in scope and impact

Proven ability to drive complex, ambiguous projects with minimal guidance

Excellence in communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Track record of influencing strategic decisions through data and analytics

Comfort working at multiple altitudes: from debugging code to advising executives