Data Scientist
Ascension
full-remotemidpermanentdata United States 2 days ago via LinkedIn
96,208.99 - 134,109.89 USD/annual
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About the role
Role: Data Scientist
Department: Clinical and Population Health Analytics
Location: Remote (United States)
Schedule: Full-time | Day shift
Salary: $96,208.99 - $134,109.89 per year
How you’ll make an impact
- Build & Refine: Assist in building, testing, and refining predictive machine learning models and text-based Generative AI tools.
- Use Vertex AI and modern NLP frameworks under guidance from senior team members.
- Process & Analyze: Extract, clean, and preprocess structured healthcare data (EHR, billing, claims).
- Perform feature engineering to address noise, missingness, and complex clinical data structures.
- Evaluate & Test: Conduct model evaluation, benchmarking, and error analysis.
- Assess performance metrics along with clinical safety, fairness, and potential algorithmic bias.
- Collaborate & Learn: Translate clinical questions into structured analytics/technical tasks with senior data scientists and clinical mentors.
- Document & Handoff: Write clean, well-documented code and maintain project documentation in GitHub.
- Support model deployment and integration with MLOps pipelines.
Minimum requirements
- High school diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate’s/Bachelor’s degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job-specific experience.
Additional preferences
- Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Health Informatics, Statistics, or a related STEM field.
- Interest in learning healthcare data standards and clinical coding structures (e.g., ICD-10, CPT).
- Core skills:
- Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn)
- SQL (BigQuery/relational databases)
- Git/GitHub
- AI & NLP exposure: LLM concepts, prompt engineering, or GenAI/NLP frameworks such as Hugging Face, LangChain, or Google Vertex AI.
- Strong analytical problem-solving and ability to communicate findings to both technical and clinical stakeholders.
About Ascension
Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system in the United States. The organization focuses on reimagining healthcare through services and associate growth, with an emphasis on inclusive, supportive work culture across clinical and population health initiatives.
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