About the Company

At Covera Health, we have proven that advanced data science can prevent serious misdiagnoses which result in poor outcomes for patients and increased costs for payers. Using our proprietary framework, we help patients recover better, faster, and more affordably. Today, we are working with some of the largest healthcare payers in the country to potentially impact millions of patient lives. We are passionate about improving healthcare for every patient.
 

About the role

We are looking for a talented Data Scientist to join us in our commitment to improve the quality of care for patients in every community across the nation. In this role, you will contribute to mission-critical internal and customer-facing analyses and scientific research activities on healthcare provider characteristics, care quality, and patient care patterns and outcomes. This role will be integral to delivering on our commitments to providing meaningful, consistent, and high-quality assessments of provider quality. You will support every step of the analytics journey, from data collection and pipelining, through to production quality model development and monitoring. You must be flexible to changing requirements and detail-oriented in a self-driven environment.

In this role, you will be a key member of our growing Data Science team. You will work closely with various team members across the company, supporting our evolving analytics/ML needs and helping to build and mature our analytic pipelines.

You will be expected to:

• Work with a variety of healthcare data, including: healthcare provider profile data, medical images, medical reports, longitudinal claims data, and proprietary diagnostic imaging exam quality assessment data
• Contribute to the enhancement and extension of the data analytics pipelines and environment
• Collaborate with data science team members and other colleagues on data analysis projects and research activities
• Communicate the results of analysis and research projects to internal and external stakeholders
• Take initiative, think critically about your work, and look for opportunities or risks to raise to the broader team
• Perform other duties and contribute to additional initiatives/projects, as deemed appropriate by the Company’s management team

Requirements

• One to three year’s work experience as a Data Scientist
• BS or MS in computer science or related field
• Experience developing analytics or machine learning models for use in a production setting – deep learning or NLP experience are a plus
• Strong experience with Python and in particular experience managing and manipulating data using standard Python libraries (pandas, etc)
• Comfortable writing SQL queries (Postgres or similar)
• Experience developing code that is leveraged by a wider team and/or contributing to a collaborative code base
• Exposure to configuring and executing analyses in the cloud (e.g. using AWS resources)
• Strong communicator with excellent ability to work in a team environment
• Experience working with medical data is a plus
   

Benefits

You will be a full-time employee with competitive salary, stock options, and great benefits. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance (with premiums fully covered), FSA, pre-tax commuter benefits, flexible paid time off, and a comfortable office space filled with a variety of quality snacks and beverages. Most importantly, you’ll get to know each of us and we love to work together to find solutions. We are a smart, fun, focused, and unique team of people who are truly passionate about changing healthcare for the better!