Data Scientist (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

Title: Data Scientist

Duties: The Data Scientist Availity LLC in Jacksonville, FL will design, develop and implement predictive, statistical, and machine learning models to support operational and product decisions. Extract, clean, and transform structured and unstructured data from multiple sources using Python and SQL. Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify trends, anomalies, and actionable insights within large datasets. Develop and maintain automated data, machine learning pipeline and ETL processes to enable scalable model training and evaluation. Research and prototype new algorithms and statistical methods to enhance product integrity and user experience. Develop automated processes using NLP techniques to uncover hidden insights from text data. Collaborate with engineering, product and clinical team to define data requirements and integrity. Document modeling approaches, data mining techniques, and results for internal review. Position is 100% remote.

Requirements: Master’s degree in Data Science, Analytics, Information Systems, or a directly related field, plus 1 year of experience as a data scientist or related occupation. Must have 1 year of experience with each of the following: (1) Restful APIs; (2) designing, developing, and maintaining end-to-end machine learning pipelines on Azure Databricks using Pyspark, scikit-learn and pandas for balanced and imbalanced datasets; (3) developing models with NLP techniques using Huggingface, NLTK, Sentence BERT model, transformers, and fine-tuning; (4) designing medical document classification model using XGBoost and neural networks; (5) experimenting, designing and tracking machine learning models with MLFlow and Hyperopt library; (6) building solutions for healthcare specific data problems, following PHI/PII and ensuring HIPPA compliance; and (7) continuous integration, testing, deployment, and release methodologies.

This notice is subject to Availity LLC's employee referral program.

Interested candidates should apply online at https://availity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Availity_Careers_US or send resume to [email protected]  and reference job code 028. Contact Emily Carlson at [email protected]  if you have questions or need information about this application.

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Availity fosters a collaborative and open culture where communication and engagement are central to our success.  As a remote first company, we are also camera-first and provide all associates with camera/video capability to simulate the office environment. If you are not able to use your camera for all virtual meetings, you should not apply for this role.

Having cameras on helps create a more connected, interactive, and productive environment, allowing teams to communicate more effectively and build stronger working relationships.  The usage of cameras also enhances security and protects sensitive company information. Video participation is required to ensure that only authorized personnel are present in meetings and to prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, preventing social engineering, or the sharing of confidential information with non-participants.

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Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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