Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bonfire Analytics accelerates the adoption of healthcare technology and treatments through advanced analytics built on comprehensive healthcare datasets. The Staff Data Scientist will lead data science, own complex analytical problems end to end, build scalable data foundations, work directly with customers and founders, and help shape the company’s analytical products and roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Advanced analytics & modeling - design and execute statistical analyses, predictive models, and data science workflows in Python and SQL to answer complex, ambiguous questions
- Own the data foundation - build and improve the Databricks pipelines and reusable data assets behind our customer deliverables and products, working at the scale of billions of claims rows
- Work AI-first - use AI tools as a core part of how you analyze data and build deliverables, and shape the analytical engine behind Bonfire's AI-powered products
- Lead data science - set technical direction and quality standards for the function, spot patterns across customer engagements to develop new analytical products, and shape Bonfire's roadmap
- Own customer outcomes - scope projects from discovery through delivery and package findings into clear, customer-ready reports and presentations
Skills
- 5+ years in a data science or advanced analytics role
- Strong SQL skills with experience writing complex queries (joins, aggregations, window functions, CTEs)
- Proficiency in Python for modeling, hypothesis testing, and predictive analytics
- Experience building or maintaining data pipelines at scale; Databricks or Spark is a plus
- AI-forward by habit: you already use AI tools daily to work faster and better, and you're excited to keep pushing what they can do
- Rigor by default: you sanity-check every number before it goes to a customer and build habits that catch your own errors at scale
- Excellent communicator with genuine customer empathy; you present complex findings in plain language to both technical and executive audiences
- Experience with medical or prescription claims, provider databases, or similar healthcare data is a plus
- We are unable to sponsor work visas at this time; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States
- In-person in our NYC, FiDi office preferred (the rest of the team is based in New York)
Benefits
- 0.05%-0.2% equity
- Significant ownership with autonomy to shape how we deliver value to customers
- High career growth potential as Bonfire grows
- Open to remote for the right candidate
- Collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on improving healthcare outcomes
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