Pivotal Health
Senior Applied Scientist, Decisioning
Santa Monica, CA · Senior · Contract
No sponsorshipDetected 90 days ago
PythonMachine LearningData ScienceStatisticsA/B TestingForecastingResearchUnderwriting
About the role
- We're hiring a Senior Applied Scientist, Decisioning to improve the systems that determine how Pivotal makes high-value decisions in core workflows.
- This role is for someone with a strong applied data science or optimization background who wants to work on real production systems, not just offline analysis.
- You'll operate at the intersection of data, experimentation, modeling, economics, and software.
Responsibilities
- Design and run experiments that help us understand whether product, rules, prompt, or model changes are actually improving performance.
- Build models, heuristics, optimization logic, or evaluation frameworks that improve real-world outcomes under operational constraints.
- Help design feedback loops that connect model and workflow behavior back to product and business outcomes.
- Contribute to configurable rules systems and other controls that make decisioning easier to manage and improve over time.
- Use AI as a force multiplier in your own workflow and help the team move faster by bringing strong AI-native habits.
- While processes like IDR (Independent Dispute Resolution) were designed to promote fairness, they're often administrative-heavy, time-consuming, and difficult to navigate without the right tools.
Requirements
- You are excited by high-stakes decisioning problems that combine data, uncertainty, incentives, and operational constraints.
- You have strong applied data science instincts, but you want your work to ship.
- You are comfortable moving between modeling, experimentation, analysis, and product or engineering collaboration.
- You can reason clearly about metrics, tradeoffs, and second-order effects.
- You are pragmatic and can choose the right level of sophistication for the problem instead of overcomplicating it.
- You are an AI power user yourself and actively use AI in your day-to-day work with good judgment.
- experience in pricing, revenue optimization, marketplace ranking, matching, bidding, lending, credit, underwriting, or ad tech systems
- experience designing and interpreting experiments in production environments
- experience with optimization, decisioning, forecasting, or applied statistics in high-leverage product systems
- experience partnering tightly with engineers to productionize models, logic, or recommendations
Nice to have
- You like operating in fast-moving environments where the path is not perfectly defined and impact comes from good judgment plus speed.
Skills
- Python-based services and internal ML tooling
- model evaluation and experimentation workflows
- configurable rules and decisioning systems
- production APIs and operational workflows
- AI and model-backed systems grounded in structured internal data
- Competitive compensation, including equity
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Opportunities for company-wide connection and events
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, including equity
Benefits
- Pivotal Health is the leading technology platform that helps healthcare providers get paid fairly in an increasingly complex reimbursement landscape.
- Today, many providers face persistent underpayment from health insurance companies, despite delivering high-quality care.
- Pivotal Health combines software, data, and service into a seamlessly integrated, AI-driven platform that simplifies these complex reimbursement workflows.
- We help providers efficiently dispute underpaid claims, reduce administrative burden, and recover the reimbursement they're entitled to; without adding more work to already stretched teams.
- We're building solutions that enable providers to operate with clarity, control, and confidence across the reimbursement journey.
Company info
- The problems are economically meaningful and close to core company outcomes.
- The work combines data science depth with real product and production ownership.
- You'll have room to shape the next generation of decisioning systems at a company where these systems matter.
- This is the kind of role where strong thinking can translate into clear business leverage quickly.
- We care about rigor, but we also care about shipping.
- Candidates from marketplaces, lending, pricing, and optimization teams often do especially well in this kind of environment because they are used to balancing models, metrics, and operational realities.
Equal opportunity
- Pivotal Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
- Reasonable Accommodations
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
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