Junction
Data Scientist
EDT / EST (US East Coast only)
Work authorization required$180k-$220kDetected 91 days ago
TypeScriptPythonNext.jsFastAPIPostgreSQLGCPCloud PlatformsTemporalMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsA/B TestingComplianceStakeholder ManagementHIPAAResearchExperimental DesignLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Healthcare is in crisis and the people behind the results deserve better.
- With more and more data coming from wearables, lab tests, and patient-doctor interactions, we're entering an era where data is abundant.
- If you're passionate about how technology can supercharge healthcare, you'll fit right in.
Responsibilities
- You'll own Junction's highest-leverage statistical, modeling, and evaluation work across diagnostics, clinical workflows, and AI-enabled product development.
Requirements
- Strong track record of leading high-stakes analytical work that influenced product, operational, or business decisions
- Strong Python and/or R skills, with experience working on large, messy real-world datasets
- Experience partnering closely with engineering to move work from analysis or prototype into deployed systems
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels: defining the roadmap while also getting into the details when needed
- Comfort operating in a startup environment with ambiguity, limited structure, and high ownership
- As the company grows, our advantage moves beyond just having data to having the ability to turn it into reliable intelligence improving product decisions, customer outcomes, and the performance of the business.
Nice to have
- Experience designing, executing, and publishing research studies
- Experience with HIPAA, PHI, or other regulatory clinical frameworks
- Deep familiarity with modern data tooling and production workflows across warehouses, orchestration, and transformation layers
- Experience applying causal inference methods, such as diff-in-diff, propensity scoring, or instrumental variables in practice
- Not an analytics role focused on dashboards, reporting, or one-off analysis
- Not a good fit if you struggle with ambiguity.
- What this role isn't
- How you'll be compensated
Skills
- Python (FastAPI), Go, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud BigTable, etc), Temporal Cloud
Compensation
- $180,000 - $220,000 + equity
- Your salary is dependent on your location and experience level
Benefits
- Monthly learning budget of $300 for personal development and productivity
- Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment
- Healthcare coverage depending on location
Company info
- use health data to unlock unprecedented insight into human health and disease.
- Backed by Creandum, Point Nine, 20VC, YC, and leading angels, we're working to solve one of the biggest challenges of our time: making healthcare personalized, proactive, and affordable.
- We're already connecting millions and scaling fast.
- Short on time?
- Can define what should be measured, how it should be modeled, and how those insights should shape product and company decisions.
- Company handbook is here https://pages.junction.com/handbook with engineering values + principles
Visa & Work Authorization
- We do not sponsor visas right now given our stage
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