CLINICAL DATA SCIENTIST

The Clinical Data Scientist serves as a strategic bridge between clinical operations, Epic analytics and research initiatives at NEMS. This role will design, build, and validate reproducible analytical workflows and machine learning models using clinical and real‑world data (EHR, claims, registries) to answer clinical and operational questions, support research and product development, and enable data‑driven decision making across the organization.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Acts as liaison between IT, clinical informatics, operations and research teams to ensure alignment on clinical data strategy
• Designs and executes study and analysis plans for clinical research, outcome measurement, and predictive modeling.
• Analyzes patient populations to identify care gaps, utilization patterns, and opportunities for preventive interventions
• Supports value-based care initiatives by calculating and monitoring quality measures that impact reimbursement and funding
• Collaborates with care management, population health and other operational teams where needed to optimize provider engagement, patient engagement and outreach campaigns
• Partners with interdepartmental leaders, clinical directors and quality teams to gather requirements and prioritize analytics projects
• Serves as SME for analytics team; validates clinical workflows and data definitions
• Extracts, cleans, harmonizes, and curates clinical and real‑world datasets (EHR, claims, labs, device data), ensuring provenance and reproducibility.
• Develops feature engineering pipelines and statistical or machine‑learning models (risk scores, phenotyping algorithms, prognostic/predictive models)
• Validates models using appropriate methods (cross‑validation, temporal validation, external cohorts) and assesses fairness, calibration, and clinical utility
• Collaborates closely with clinicians, biostatisticians, product managers, and engineers to translate clinical questions into analytic specifications and actionable outputs
• Implements production‑ready pipelines and supports model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management (versioning, performance tracking, drift detection)
• Ensures compliance with data governance, privacy, and security requirements (HIPAA best practices); participates in data access and IRB processes as needed
• Produces clear, reproducible documentation, analysis code, technical reports, and visualizations for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Contributes to team best practices: code review, unit/integration testing for analytics code, and reproducible research practices (notebooks, containers, CI/CD)
• Tracks project timelines, deliverables and stakeholder satisfaction metrics using project management tools – Jira or similar
• Performs other job duties as required by manager/supervisor

• Clinical Degree: MD, DO, NP, PA, PharmD, or equivalent clinical training with active understanding of clinical workflows, diagnoses, and treatment protocols preferred
• MS in Data Science, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience or related field).
• 5 years’ experience working with clinical or real‑world healthcare data (EHR, claims, registries) in applied analytics or research settings
• Experience working with underserved or immigrant populations; cultural competency and multilingual skills highly valued
• Epic Certification required or must obtain within 6 months of hire

Technical Skills and Competencies:

• Data Visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau or similar)
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or R; proficiency with SQL for large‑scale data extraction and manipulation
• Deep understanding of quality measures (HEDIS, eCQM), value-based care models and population health principles
• Experience with healthcare data standards and APIs (FHIR, HL7) and common EHR systems (Epic, Cerner) preferred
• Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting technical results to clinicians and stakeholders
• Proactive problem solver with a bias for reproducible, production‑quality work
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly evolving requirements in healthcare settings

LANGUAGE:

• Must be able to fluently speak, read and write English
• Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin), Vietnamese, Spanish and other languages preferred
• Fluency in other languages are an asset

STATUS:

• This is an FLSA Exempt position.
• This is not an OSHA low-risk position.
• This is a Full Time position.

NEMS is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer welcoming diversity in our workforce. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

NEMS BENEFITS: Competitive benefits, including free medical, dental and vision insurance for employee, spouse and/or children; and company contribution to 401(k).
 

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Salary : $143,099 - $165,048