Sprinter Health

Applied Scientist, Optimization & Logistics

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago

PythonAlgorithmsSQLMachine LearningStatisticsForecastingLogisticsResearchExperimental DesignCollaboration

About the role

We're looking for an Applied Scientist to turn Sprinter's hardest logistics problems into optimization models and decision systems that get the right clinician to the right patient at the right time.
Sprinter runs a two-sided operation - clinicians on one side, patients who need care at home on the other - and we must match supply to demand across large regions under complex constraints.
As an Applied Scientist, you will take ambiguous operational problems and shape them into well-posed tasks, strong baselines, and honest evaluations.

Build strong baselines and improve on them efficiently, adding complexity only when the value justifies it.
Design offline evaluations, simulated backtests, and live experiments that predict real-world operational impact.
Partner with Engineering to productionize optimization and decision systems reliably.
Work with operations partners and SMEs to validate assumptions and review where decisions break down.
Strong foundations in operations research or optimization: modeling, algorithms, experimental design, and honest evaluation.
Strong Python and SQL, the standard optimization and ML libraries, and the ability to run your own experiments end to end.
By using the same technologies that power leading marketplace and last-mile platforms, we deliver care where people are, especially those who need it most.

Ability to turn an ambiguous problem into a well-posed optimization or forecasting task, discover and analyze related literature, and adapt/apply those methods to our tasks.
Experience shipping optimization or decision systems that reached production and had material real-world impact.
Hands-on experience with supply-and-demand matching in a marketplace, dispatch, or field-operations setting.
What you have done:

Meaningful pre-IPO equity
Medical, dental, and vision plans 100% paid for you and your dependents
Flexible PTO + 10 paid holidays per year
16-week parental leave policy for birthing parent, 8 weeks for all other parents
HSA + FSA contributions
Life insurance, plus short and long-term disability coverage
Annual learning stipend
At Sprinter Health, our mission is reimagining how people access care by bringing it directly to their homes.
For many, the ER becomes their first touchpoint with the healthcare system-driving over $300B in avoidable costs every year.
Develop solutions across operations research, optimization, and machine learning, choosing the right tool for the problem.

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