Company: Oak Street Health
Title: Sr. Data Scientist
Location: Chicago, IL / Remote
Company Description
Oak Street Health believes everyone deserves great healthcare â the kind youâd want for your own family. We specialize in providing exceptional care for older adults on Medicare, often in underserved communities where there is little or no quality healthcare.
Oak Street Health is on a mission to rebuild healthcare as it should be with an innovative care model that centers on wellness-based, positive health outcomes for patients, not the volume of services provided. Our unwavering commitment to keeping patients healthy is highlighted by dedicated care teams that take time to get to know each individual, providing the personalized care they need to stay healthy and live life more fully.
Weâre an organization on the move! Our rapidly growing national network of primary care centers is staffed by a diverse team of outstanding care providers, service team members, technologists, community outreach experts, business professionals, and more. For more information, visit http://www.oakstreethealth.com.
Role Description:
Oak Street Health is looking for a senior data scientist to join our data science team. Our core mission is to augment our operational and care team workflows with clinical data insight tools to connect the right patients with the right services. We realize that mission through the application of both simple and cutting-edge clinical tools, including advanced AI. You will play a key role in delivering on that mission by serving as a leader developing and deploying clinical AI, inclusive of the entire data science and machine learning development lifecycle.
Core Responsibilities
Support the full data science lifecycle in healthcare projects from feature engineering, to experimentation, to post-deployment monitoring and improvement, employing the full range of relevant modalities from conventional ML to LLM agents.
Collaborate directly with medical professionals and business leaders to translate real-world gaps into data-driven solutions drawing from an immense bank of interoperable health data.
Communicate findings, performance, and projected impacts of tools to teams of diverse stakeholders with varying degrees of technical or medical proficiency.
Serve as a thought leader in partnership with clinical and business leaders to not only share results but to proactively guide the product development.
Stay abreast of developments in the field to continuously improve the techniques employed in the role.
Conduct advanced real-world experiments to answer pressing questions of how patients engage with their health.
What are we looking for
A graduate degree in a related field of mathematics, biostatistics, computer science, or engineering with 5+ or 3+ years working experience with a masterâs degree or PhD, respectively.
Advanced proficiency in foundations of data science and machine learning.
Applied experience leveraging both conventional ML and emerging NLP tools in a healthcare or healthcare adjacent setting.
Expertise in HIE data and/or medical claims, extensive experience with clinical note data is a plus.
Strong command of Python/R and SQL.
Experience conducting natural experiments and observational studies of health outcomes and interpreting results with standard statistical techniques.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Skilled communicator able to connect data with insight to stakeholder groups.
Familiarity with best practices in model productionalization and deployment is a plus.
What does being âOakyâ look like?
Radiating positive energy
Assuming good intentions
Creating an unmatched patient experience
Driving clinical excellence
Taking ownership and delivering results
Being scrappy
Why Oak Street?
Oak Street Health offers our coworkers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a revolution in healthcare, as well as:
Collaborative and energetic culture
Fast-paced and innovative environment
Competitive benefits including paid vacation and sick time, generous 401K match with immediate vesting, and health benefits
Oak Street Health is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and encourage all interested readers to apply to oakstreethealth.com/careers.