Data Scientist

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

We are seeking a dynamic Data Scientist to join our team at Evolent to shape the future of healthcare. This role is perfect for someone passionate about leveraging AI to make informed decisions, reduce healthcare costs, and improve efficiency. 

Collaboration Opportunities: 

This position will play a critical role in interacting with engineering and clinical teams, healthcare payer executives, managers, and frontline staff users, driving the vision for our product with customer. Collaborating with the Clinical team and across various functional lines, demonstrating the passion for leveraging AI to improve efficiency within the healthcare sector 

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Construct advanced SQL queries to scrutinize healthcare data, track key product usage metrics, build feature sets, generate reports and perform complex analytics tasks to improve our product, and investigate business problems to identify novel solutions. 

• Work on unstructured text data to build machine-learning models for information retrieval applications. Use state-of-the-art NLP and LLMs in a cluster-computing environment, to optimize and automate parts of the prior authorization process and the product development process. 

• Influence and contribute to Evolent’s core product by architecting key components for automating and simplifying the AI-creation process of turning raw data into smart decisions. This includes automation of data transformation, feature engineering, algorithm selection, and model optimization. 

• Collaborate with a team of Data Scientists, clinicians, and engineers to drive the development and maturation of our AI solutions 

• Establish processes for rapid impact, feedback, and iteration of solutions with Evolent's internal clinical staff and customers 

• Develop and deploy cutting-edge machine learning, NLP, and LLM models to solve the most pressing problems facing healthcare today, including document comprehension-related products to support reducing overall healthcare costs 

• Work closely with our product and innovation teams, as well as business stakeholders spread across various locations in the US and India. 

Qualifications Required and Preferred:  

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field. (Required) 

• 2+ years advanced experience in SQL, including experience writing new and efficient SQL code and complex analytical queries. (Required)  

• 1+ years of experience in building data science extractions and prompt engineering. (Required)