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Layer Health · 3 weeks ago

Forward Deploy Data Scientist

Boston or NYC

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$140K/yr - $180K/yr

2+ years exp

Layer Health is a company founded by leading machine learning researchers from prestigious institutions, focusing on building an AI layer to synthesize information from medical records. They are seeking a Forward Deploy Data Scientist to work with customers and internal teams to translate healthcare data into actionable insights and machine learning-ready pipelines, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareInformation ServicesMedicalSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Partner directly with health systems and hospital customers to understand their data, workflows, and goals, sharing data insights that enable our customers to understand our product value and areas of opportunity

Design and execute data and ML investigations— validating, and transforming large structured and unstructured healthcare datasets with state of the art models to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness

Deploy, build, and operationalize ML and LLM-based models and analytics pipelines in collaboration with the broader engineering and product teams

Work hand-in-hand with customer success and product teams to understand and improve user engagement through data-driven analyses

Communicate results and insights clearly to technical, product, and clinical stakeholders

Build reusable playbooks, tools, and best practices to accelerate future implementations and improve customer outcomes

Stay current on emerging ML, NLP, and healthcare data technologies and proactively apply them to real-world clinical problems

Contribute to a culture of collaboration, innovation, and rigor across the data science and product teams

Qualification

Data science experiencePython programmingML/NLP librariesML Ops toolsData manipulationCommunicatorProactive mindsetTeam playerAdaptability

Required

2-3 years of professional experience in data science (a proven track record of successful projects in healthcare or clinical applications is a bonus, but not required)

A strong communicator who thrives in a customer-focused, fast-paced environment - must be comfortable presenting to external customers and have a partnered/strategic mindset

Strong programming skills in Python, and fluency with modern data science and ML/NLP libraries (PyTorch, Tensorflow, HuggingFace, etc.)

Experience with ML Ops tools (Airflow, MLflow, dbt, Docker, or cloud ML platforms)

Familiarity with modern applied LLM techniques and their practical implementations (any experience using these techniques is a bonus)

Deep fluency and instincts for data manipulation, treatment, and evaluation, with the ability to wrangle large, complex datasets efficiently and methodically

Proactive mindset to identify and solve problems, continuously improving our data science capabilities

An excited and adaptable team player who wants to disrupt the healthcare industry with AI/ML, alongside an awesome team

Willingness to be hybrid with our team in either our Boston or NYC office 2-3 days per week

Preferred

Familiarity with Epic, Cerner, or other EHR systems

Experience in forward deploy, field data science, or consulting-style roles

Background in AI/ML for healthcare, clinical analytics, or real-world data

Company

Layer Health

Layer Health is a health technology company that utilizes AI and large language models to streamline medical chart reviews.

Founded in 2023

Brookline, Massachusetts, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.layerhealth.com

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