Senior Data Scientist 2

Location: Hyderabad - India

Remote Type: Hybrid

Job Description

Join the Team Modernizing Medicine

At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care.

A Culture of Excellence

When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction.   From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes:

• Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work

• 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year”

• 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties

• Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year

We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started.

Ready to modernize medicine with us?

Job Description Summary:

Why ModMed?

• Innovate Boldly: Lead the design and development of LLM-powered solutions for clinical summarization, intelligent chat, and document understanding that directly impact patient care.
• Architect Excellence: Build end-to-end ML pipelines and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures using vector databases like Pinecone or Weaviate to ensure our AI is grounded and reliable.
• Optimize & Refine: Fine-tune state-of-the-art models (GPT, LLaMA, Mistral) and apply advanced prompt engineering to solve specialty-specific healthcare challenges.
• Think Big & Lead: Own project delivery and stakeholder communication, ensuring our AI initiatives are ethical, scalable, and governable.
• Mentor & Grow: Foster a culture of experimentation and fun, mentoring junior scientists to help them reach their full potential.

• Experience: 8–12 years in Data Science/ML, with at least 3+ years specifically focused on LLMs and Generative AI.
• Technical Mastery: Deep hands-on expertise in Python and frameworks like PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, or LlamaIndex.
• Cloud Fluency: Proven ability to deploy models at scale using AWS SageMaker, Azure ML, or GCP Vertex AI.
• MLOps Mindset: Experience with MLflow, Airflow, Docker, and Kubernetes to ensure our "bold innovations" are also stable and reliable.
• Academic Foundation: A strong grasp of statistical analysis and evaluation techniques to mitigate hallucinations and ensure clinical accuracy.

• Experience navigating the complexities of Healthcare AI (HIPAA, clinical data).
• Familiarity with multi-modal models (integrating text with medical imaging or audio).
• A passion for ethics and fairness in AI systems.

ModMed Benefits Highlight:  At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

• Meals & Snacks: Enjoy complimentary office lunches & dinners on select days and healthy snacks delivered to your desk,
• Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive health, accidental, and life insurance plans, including coverage for family members, all at no cost to employees,
• Allowances: Annual wellness allowance to support your well-being and productivity,
• Earned, casual, and sick leaves to maintain a healthy work-life balance,
• Bereavement leave for difficult times and extended medical leave options,
• Paid parental leaves, including maternity, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, and abortion leave,
• Celebration leave to make your special day even more memorable, and company-paid holidays to recharge and unwind.

PHISHING SCAM WARNING: ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote "interviews," and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address ([email protected]). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully.  Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to the FTC website.