[Hiring] Senior Generative AI Scientist I @Cotiviti

Role Description

The Sr Gen AI Data Scientist I - Generative AI will apply knowledge and experience to real world problems and seek to utilize their skills to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve health quality and outcomes. With access to dedicated on premise and cloud based big data solutions, the team can work with a vast amount of structured and unstructured data including claims, membership, physician demographics, medical records and others to begin to solve some of the most pressing healthcare issues of our time. A Data Scientist at Cotiviti will be given the opportunity to work directly with a team of healthcare professionals including analysts, clinicians, coding specialists, auditors and innovators to set aggressive goals and execute on them with the team.

This is for an ambitious technologist, with the flexibility and personal drive to succeed in a dynamic environment where they are judged based on their direct impact to business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver solutions that help clients identify payment integrity issues, reduce healthcare costs, or improve healthcare outcomes.
• Work as part of a team and be individually responsible for the delivery of value associated with projects.
• Follow processes and practices to incorporate models into the machine learning platform for production execution and monitoring.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to discover solutions to business problems.
• Work with key stakeholders within Research and Development and Operations to assess potential value and risks of business problems solvable using AI techniques.
• Develop an exploratory data analysis approach to verify initial hypotheses for AI/ML use cases.
• Document approach, thinking, and results to facilitate collaboration with other data scientists.
• Prepare final trained models and develop validation test sets for QA.
• Work with production operations to deploy models and monitor performance.
• Collaborate with other data science teams to support their projects.
• Participate in knowledge sharing sessions to bring new insights and technologies to the team.
• Engage in design sessions to continuously improve the Cotiviti machine learning platform.
• Provide end-to-end value-based solutions, including data pipeline, model creation, and application for end user consumption.
• Complete all responsibilities as outlined in the annual performance review and/or goal setting.
• Complete special projects and other duties as assigned.
• Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science/Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research covering Advanced Statistics, Machine learning and AI.
• Experience with the latest techniques in natural language processing including transformers, fine-tuning LLMs, measuring/benchmarking and deploying LLMs with tools such as HuggingFace, Langchain, LLAMA/Mistral and OpenAI, vector databases.
• 3+ years of hands-on data science/AI experience, using typical machine learning and data science tools including pandas, scikit-learn, keras, nltk, and TensorFlow/PyTorch, GPU.
• Experience building production-grade machine learning deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience working with Apache Spark™ and large-scale distributed datasets.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical and technical audiences is a plus.
• Passion for collaboration, learn-it-all mindset, and driving value with AI.

Requirements

• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate as a team with a sense of urgency.
• Professional with ability to properly handle confidential information.
• Value-driven, understanding that success is based on the impact of work rather than its complexity or level of effort.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work within a matrixed organization.
• Proficiency in all required skills and competencies above.
• Communicating with others and teamwork.
• Assessing the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned.

Benefits

• Base compensation ranges from $130,000 to $156,000 per year.
• Competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• 401(k) savings plans.
• Paid family leave.
• 9 paid holidays per year.
• 17-27 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year, depending on specific level and length of service with Cotiviti.