Data Scientist

at Evolent Health in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they’re supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That’s one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

We are seeking a dynamic Data Scientist to join our team at Evolent to shape the future of healthcare. This role is perfect for someone passionate about leveraging AI to make informed decisions, reduce healthcare costs, and improve efficiency.

Collaboration Opportunities :

This position will play a critical role in interacting with engineering and clinical teams, healthcare payer executives, managers, and frontline staff users, driving the vision for our product with customer. Collaborating with the Clinical team and across various functional lines, demonstrating the passion for leveraging AI to improve efficiency within the healthcare sector

What You Will Be Doing:

+ Develop and deploy cutting-edge machine learning, NLP, and LLM models to solve the most pressing problems facing healthcare today, including document comprehension-related products to support reducing overall healthcare costs

+ Work on unstructured text data to build machine-learning models for information retrieval applications Use state-of-the-art deep-learning NLP and machine-learning algorithms operating over large volumes of both structured and unstructured data in a cluster-computing environment.

+ Influence and contribute to Evolent’s core product by architecting key components for automating and simplifying the AI-creation process of turning raw data into smart decisions. This includes automation of data transformation, feature engineering, algorithm selection, and model optimization.

+ Collaborate with a team of Data Scientists, clinicians, and engineers to drive the development and maturation of our AI solutions

+ Establish processes for rapid impact, feedback, and iteration of solutions with Evolent’s internal clinical staff and customers

+ Work closely with our product and innovation teams, as well as business stakeholders spread across various locations in the US and India.

Qualifications Required and Preferred:

+ Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field. (Required)

+ 2-3 years of experience in building data science extractions and prompt engineering. (Required)

+ 1-3 years of experience with developing and deploying machine-learning systems. (Required)

+ Experience with the use of a programming/scripting language (Python, and SQL.) for building data pipelines. (Required)

+ Passion for solving problems within healthcare that have tangible impacts on patient lives.

+ Experience with developing and deploying products in production with Python, C++, Java, or Scala. (Preferred)

+ Familiarity with high-performance computing and distributed computing like Spark, Dask, Hadoop, and CUDA distributed GPU. (Preferred)

+ Hands-on experience with deep learning architectures and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras. (Required)

+ Experience with libraries and tools like Spacy, NLTK, Stanford Core NLP, Genism, and JohnSnow Labs. (Preferred)

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations.

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruiting@evolent.com for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $110,000 – $125,000. This position is also eligible for a bonus component that would be dependent on pre-defined performance factors. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.

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