Contract Data Scientist (40 hrs/wk)

The role

You will work with the ML team to tailor models for specific clinical use cases. You will design, build, evaluate, and iterate on models using data science fundamentals and LLM techniques.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end development of models for specific use cases
• Build and iterate using ML/LLM-powered workflows
• Conduct evaluation and error analysis
• Perform deep error analysis to identify systematic failure modes
• Ship frequent, high-quality updates to models
• Leverage LLM application and tooling
• Support analytics and metrics

Required qualifications

• Good data science fundamentals, including knowledge of best practices for evaluating model performance and error analysis
• Familiarity with modern applied LLM techniques and their practical implementations
• Solid programming skills in Python
• Strong technical communicator
• Proactive mindset to identify and solve problems
• Excited and adaptable team player
• Willingness to be hybrid in either our Boston or NYC office 3 days per week

Nice to have

• Proven track record of successful projects in healthcare or clinical applications
• Experience using modern applied LLM techniques

About the company

Layer Health was founded in 2023 by leading machine learning researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School. The company is building an AI layer to synthesize information from medical records.