Founding Data Scientist (Santa Rosa) at Intelletec

Fast-growing AI healthcare startup is hiring a Founding Data Scientist. Seeking a true player-coach, offering the opportunity to shape the data science function from the ground up while remaining hands-on in analytics, modeling, and product collaboration.What Youll Do Establish the data function: build systems, tools, best practices, and a long-term data strategy Hands-on analytics and modeling: develop predictive and optimization models, perform ad hoc analyses, and prototype ML applications Collaborate across teams: work closely with product, engineering, and clinical leaders to uncover trends, inform features, and drive measurable outcomes Client-facing insights: analyze healthcare data, create dashboards, and translate findings into actionable recommendations Leadership growth: act as a player-coach, mentoring future data hires as the team expandsWhat Were Looking For 8+ years in data science or advanced analytics Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL Experience with healthcare datasets (claims, EMR/EHR, Strong statistical modeling and ML knowledge (scikit-learn, StatsModels, PyTorch) Comfortable with ambiguity, able to own end-to-end data initiatives, and influence product/clinical decisions Strong communication skills for cross-functional and external stakeholder engagementTech Stack: Python, R, scikit-learn, StatsModels, PyTorch, SQL, healthcare claims + EMR/EHR data, ICD/CPT/HCPCS, BI tools