💰 $60,000 - $120,000 📅 01/02/2024
❤️ Want to make a tangible difference in the future of healthcare?
❤️ Love applying the latest technologies to solve tough problems?
❤️ Looking for a fulfilling career with plenty of learning and growth?
You’re in luck! At Validate you get…
Tight knit team. Culture of learning. No bureaucracy. Room to experiment.
Accelerated growth in responsibilities. Fantastic work experience. Frequent
feedback.
We are a small team of data scientists, actuaries, programmers and healthcare
policy analysts who love what we do and wouldn’t trade it for the world. Join
us!
COMPANY 🤩
Validate Health provides financial simulation, economic forecasts and
actuarial risk management guidance to healthcare providers, enabling them to
thrive in the constantly evolving and complex world of value based care (VBC).
Our mission is to enable these providers, known as accountable care
organizations (ACOs), to focus on taking care of patients, while we take care
of their highest impact strategic decisions.
JOB DESCRIPTION 😍
As a Data Engineer / Scientist you would be at the forefront of enabling new
value based healthcare models and delivering constantly evolving analytics
services to the industry. You’ll have an excellent opportunity for
professional growth in the fields of healthcare economics, quantitative
analytics and related technologies.
Build complex data transformations and statistical models using Python, SQL,
SAS.
Perform EDA, scenario modeling, forecasting and simulations on large datasets.
Ingest, transform, clean and augment internal and external data assets.
Automate data pipelines to process. patient-level and aggregated public health
data.
Leverage an ever evolving range of cloud services, data science libraries and
database platforms, such as AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, Redshift, Athena,
Glue), Databricks/Spark, PostgreSQL, SparkSQL, Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache
Airflow, and DST.
Continuously learn by investigating new technologies and mentor other team
members.
REQUIREMENTS 🤓
BS or MS in Computer Science or Mathematics from a top university program.
Experience with data science concepts, building statistical models deployed on
scalable data platforms
Experience with EDA (exploratory data analysis) using a variety of Python
libraries or BI platform tools
Experience with hands on SQL, writing complex data transformation queries and
optimizing for performance on large scale data (Knowledge of Databricks or
other Spark environments is preferred)
Solid understanding of data pipelines, processing parallelization, and ETL
concepts. (Familiarity of the following items are optional, but preferred:
Concepts used by ETL tools such as DBT and SSIS; Apache AirFlow and other job
orchestration tools; Linux command line, shell utilities and Git / GitHub;
Docker and environment management)
Experience with AWS or other PaaS cloud services (such as AWS S3, RDS,
Redshift, EMR, and Lambda) are a plus
Desire to be an expert in healthcare economics and passionate about making an
impact in this field
HIRING PROCESS 😲
We have a difficult and thorough interview process. It’s been honed over the
past 5 years, using metrics gathered at each phase of the process and
extensive feedback from candidates. It resulted in many exceptional
individuals, your future co-workers, joining our team. Please recognize
there’s substantial effort required from the Validate team as well. But we’re
dedicated to the long-term goal of hiring top talent in the industry. Those
who have gone through the entire process will attest to how gratifying,
thorough, and transparent it was compared to other companies. Speaking of
transparency, in addition to clearly laying out the process in this ad,
candidates get a “Meet the Team Day” with unrestricted access to talk to
anyone on the team. The candidate gets a thorough understanding of the company
culture fit, the problems they’ll work on, and the impact they’ll have,
enabling you to make the right career decision. We are quite proud of the
process and the team we’ve built. If you think you have what it takes to join
our team, we invite you to apply.
The steps in our hiring process are: “Getting to Know You questions” form (30
mins) ⇒ Take home “Challenge” coding & math problems (1-4 hours) ⇒ 2-3 skills
& culture interviews (~2.5 hours) ⇒ Paid micro project (4-8 hours) ⇒ Meet the
Team Day (8 hours) ⇒ Offer!
BENEFITS 🤑
Fully remote team with an environment and company culture that's optimized to
provide a fulfilling work experience and career growth opportunities to every
team member, regardless the location
Daily whiteboard sessions
Weekly "deep thought" days
Opportunity for continuous personal growth and development through research
projects and agile experimentation mindset towards product development
Quarterly personal educational goals and budget
Quarterly individual performance bonus (~10% at start, ~20% after 4 years)
Quarterly company offsite retreats and virtual town halls
Quarterly anonymous leadership feedback and evaluations
Profit sharing bonus (~5%)
Health coverage and 401K
Generous Vacation Policy
Employee Trust Assessment survey: 4.14/5 (Top 3: Deliver results, get better,
right wrongs; Bottom 3: Clarify expectations, listen first, practice
accountability)
1 year employee retention: 93%; 2 year employee retention: 82%
TO APPLY 😇
Send your resume to
[careers+wellfound@ValidateHealth.com](mailto:careers+wellfound@ValidateHealth.com)
(using subject line: “New Grad Data Engineer/Scientist via Wellfound”)
Tell us what makes you interested in this opportunity (💡 As much as we'd like
to review all applications, doing this already sets you apart from most
applicants and tells us you're truly interested.) If you have specific
compensation requirements, please let us know.
Specify when you’re available to start work and visa sponsorship requirements.
Please specify your visa requirements. We accept H-1B transfers. **We are not
able to take on more OPT candidates.** (We can only consider U.S.-based
candidates.)
🎗️ Our hiring process is designed to enable the best candidates to an offer in
under 2 weeks. Talk to you soon!
Validate Health focuses on Health Care Information Technology and Big Data
Analytics. Their company has offices in North America, United States, and
Remote. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees.
You can view their website at <http://validatehealth.com/> or find them on
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/validate-health/).
