Lead Data Scientist

Full-time / Direct Hire opportunity for a Lead Data Scientist

100% Remote but with occasional company paid travel up to 20% of time to their corporate office in Houston, TX

Ideal Candidate:

• A hands-on Lead Data Scientist with deep, recent healthcare data science experience and demonstrated production-level Generative AI/LLM expertise. This is not a BI, Data Engineering, Operations Research, or primarily traditional analytics role.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong formal foundation in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, or a closely related quantitative discipline, combined with experience building sophisticated data science solutions in a healthcare environment. Candidates should demonstrate end-to-end ownership of advanced machine learning solutions, including model development, validation, deployment, monitoring, and productionization.
• Recent experience should include hands-on development and deployment of GenAI/LLM solutions in production, such as RAG, agentic AI, NLP/LLM applications, prompt/model evaluation, or comparable enterprise AI solutions—not simply exposure to GenAI tools.
• Healthcare experience is a must for this hiring leader, with preference for candidates who have worked directly with clinical, patient, EHR/EMR, claims, population health, or other complex healthcare datasets and understand the challenges of applying AI/ML within a regulated healthcare environment.
• This is also a true Lead-level position. Candidates must demonstrate technical leadership through mentoring or guiding other data scientists, influencing modeling/technical direction, partnering with senior stakeholders, and translating complex data science work into meaningful business or clinical outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related STEM field; Master’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum of seven years of experience in data science, with a significant focus on healthcare data.
• Proven experience in deploying Generative AI/LLM solutions in a production environment.
• Strong foundation in machine learning techniques and statistical analysis.
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to present complex data insights to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.