Sr. Data Scientist - AI Research

The role

This role works on AI and machine learning projects with Lyra's Data, Product, Engineering and Clinical teams. The work includes building predictive and generative models, extracting insights from data, and supporting product changes for providers and clients.

What you will do

• Work with Data, Product, Engineering and other teams to improve the Lyra platform for providers and clients
• Become an expert in the diverse data sources Lyra collects
• Partner with data engineers to build pipelines that apply clinical logic to raw data
• Extract actionable insights and develop predictive and generative models
• Implement rigorous evaluation frameworks to support product iterations
• Complete time-sensitive ad hoc data requests for internal and external stakeholders

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of data analysis in an industry setting
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across technical, business and clinical domains
• Demonstrated understanding of statistical applications and methods (experimentation, probabilities, regression)
• Experience applying hypothesis testing in an industry or research setting
• Experience developing analyses using irregular data from disparate sources
• Willingness to clean messy data before deriving insights
• Strong SQL proficiency, including complex queries across multiple schemas and tables

Nice to have

• Graduate-level Statistics coursework or MS in a quantitative field (statistics, econometrics, biostatistics, quantitative social sciences)
• Interest in public health
• Experience with AI/ML R&D, such as prompt engineering and RAG
• Experience with Python, including data cleaning, analysis, parsing JSON, calling APIs, user-defined functions and automation
• Experience in product analytics in the AI/ML space and partnering with engineering and product teams

About the company

Lyra Health is a provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers. Its Lyra Empower platform combines care and AI-powered technology.