Lead Data Scientist - AI

The Specialty Pharmacy AI team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Data Scientist to play a role in designing and executing AI solutions, with a particular focus on Generative AI. The individual will serve as the technical lead for a portfolio of 3 to 5 AI projects and will work in collaboration with a small team of talented data scientists to execute these projects. The candidate will be responsible for supporting the full project lifecycle from a data science perspective, including problem identification and value estimation, building proofs of concept, scaling to production, and post-launch monitoring.  

The ideal candidate will have experience and passion for improving healthcare outcomes with analytics as well as a demonstrated interest in learning and implementing cutting-edge AI technologies. 

Required Qualifications 

• 5+ years of relevant analytics experience  

• Significant experience using Python and SQL in data science roles 

• Familiarity with GenAI trends and technologies including major LLM provider APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.) as well as archetypal GenAI solutions (RAG, co-pilots, document summarization, etc.) 

• Passion for exploring capabilities of new AI tools and incorporating them into team’s workflow 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Demonstrates strong ability to communicate technical concepts and implications to business partners, including experience with problem identification and business value sizing 

• Experience in AI model refinement and orchestration, including prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, embedding optimization / semantic search, and agent orchestration 

• Experience in model evaluation (incorporating both human and automated feedback), including model safety evaluation and guardrail design 

• Demonstrates proficiency in most areas of mathematical analysis methods, including predictive analytics, natural language processing, reinforcement learning and causal inference with in-depth specialization in some areas 

• Experience working with healthcare data, including claims data, provider data, and / or clinical data 

• Experience mentoring junior data scientists and maintaining high technical quality standards for team  

• Experience with Vertex AI and Google Cloud Platform is a plus, but comparable experience on other platforms is also valuable 
   

Education 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Physics, Engineering, or related discipline.  

• Master’s degree or PhD preferred