NextHealth Technologies is currently looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join the company’s product and solutions team. Our goal is to make healthcare smarter. The position provides the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge healthcare research on a cross-functional team and contribute to developing products that have an impact on the healthcare industry with patient care.

• Lead development of custom predictive and prescriptive algorithms interfacing with large data sets, based on principles from statistics, machine learning, and operations research
• Perform research as needed to extract cutting edge concepts from technical literature and apply them to relevant product features
• Work closely with scientists, engineers, and partners, to help evolve proof of concept systems into production at scale.
• Identify and promote the use of new technologies, toolkits, and frameworks, areas of inquiry, ways of working, methods and approaches in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software and Research Engineering.
• Work with clients, the SVP of Analytics, and the product development team to define desired requirements and capabilities
• Create integrated solutions using Python modules (including Pandas, Numpy, Scipy, SQLAlchemy, and scikitlearn), PostrgreSQL, and other tools as needed

We are currently seeking a candidate with:

• A graduate degree in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Statistics or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years experience beyond graduate school, which includes development of applied algorithms.
• Ability to develop algorithms in Python 3.x using Python libraries like pandas, numpy, scikitlearn, and pyspark
• Detailed knowledge of computer science including data structures, data modeling, distributed systems, and software design methods.
• Detailed knowledge in data science, machine learning, optimization, and statistics.