Data Scientist, Cedar
Artificial Intelligence
$148.8-175k
+ Equity eligible
More information about location
Financial engagement & billing technology for healthcare providers
Open for applications
Financial engagement & billing technology for healthcare providers
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$148.8-175k
+ Equity eligible
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make healthcare more affordable and accessible through its consumer-friendly platform.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of work experience in data/ML/AI (must-have), including 1+ year of experience applying Large Language Models (or significant side projects using LLMs and GenAI technology)
- Deep understanding of best practices in AI, such as effective prompt engineering techniques, chaining, retrieval, vector search, fine-tuning of LLMs
- Up to date with the latest advancements in generative AI and applying these advancements to ongoing projects
- Experience in processing, annotation, and augmentation of natural language data to create high-quality datasets
- Expertise in both SQL and Python is required
- Has shipped production algorithms to customers and has an understanding of software engineering principles
- A mindset focused on growth and learning
What the job involves
- Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that leverages data science, consumer-centric design and technology to improve the healthcare experience for patients
- The Data Science team plays a critical role in achieving Cedar’s vision. We ensure data and insights are accessible and trusted by all internal and external stakeholders to enable data-driven decision-making
- Through analytics, descriptive analyses, and statistical models, we consistently aim to better understand the needs of patients, find improvement opportunities, and impact the product development process
- We run experiments to test our various hypotheses and measure our progress
- We build ML models and embed them into our web app to deliver a personalized experience to patients
- To do this, we have built an open, supportive, and collaborative team culture. “Love thy teammate” is one of our Data Science values, and we live into this value by operating from a mindset of curiosity, possibility, and the best intentions of each of our team members
- We help differentiate Cedar's product offerings with hard-to-copy competitive advantages
- As a team, we are dedicated to continually growing our technical excellence and collaborative excellence, equally
- We are also not doing this alone; we partner with the other Makers teams (Product, Engineering, Design, and User Research) to grow our impact
- We also work with Commercial teams to evangelize our vision to clients and get market feedback on which pain points are the most urgent to solve
- Cedar is scaling rapidly and the demand for data and artificial intelligence expertise is increasing
- We are seeking a Data Scientist III, Artificial Intelligence to join our team and build features powered by large language models and generative AI technologies
- We aim to use AI to drive bill clarity for patients and streamline workflows for our customers, which are large healthcare systems across the US
- In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of Cedar’s data and leverage advanced AI tools to utilize this data to drive business value
- Combining creativity with rigor, you will build, evaluate, and improve upon AI-powered features that differentiate Cedar’s offerings and help to define the future of our product
- Develop a deep understanding of Cedar’s data and create curated datasets using a variety of inputs (including audio data, unstructured natural language data, structured data)
- Design and develop AI-powered features to enhance servicing solutions (e.g. chatbots, virtual assistants, automation of workflows) and improve the patient experience (e.g. AI-generated bill explanations, guidance on options to improve bill affordability)
- Define and utilize evaluation frameworks to rigorously test, monitor, and measure the performance of LLMs and other models
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders in engineering and product to productionize AI solutions
- Research customer workflows and stay up-to-date with advancements in AI technologies to identify new opportunities for applying AI to drive business value
- Present and clearly communicate on your technical approach, methodology, and results to partners across all levels of the organization
- Keep Cedar up-to-date with advances in AI through demos, L&D sessions
Our take
Over $1 billion is said to be lost annually by physicians as a result of inefficient and disjointed healthcare billing practices. The subsequently low patient satisfaction rates lead to poorer care, and real losses for providers who see patients switching away from their plans. Cedar looks to remedy this long-time problem set with a selection of consumer-facing services which streamline billing, insurance, and healthcare processes.
Companies like Cedar are in high demand, and serve a promisingly large and hungry market. Future healthcare billing concerns a huge percentage of US adults, and optimizing patient satisfaction is of increasing concern in a competitive sector for healthcare providers. Like other companies with a tech-forward focus, Cedar has been able to capitalize on an industry increasingly expanding towards digital healthcare solutions.
After acquiring competing patient finance streamlining service OODA Health in 2021, Cedar has gone on to capture even more success. The company has netted substantial funds on top of the launch of its Payer Intelligence Layer, which allows it to integrate data from insurers and providers to create a single source of information. It was also endorsed by the Montana Hospital Association's shared services division MHA Ventures (MHAV), to be listed as its only preferred patient financial engagement technology, all boding well for its performance into the future.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
41% female employees
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2022
$68.4m
SERIES D
Mar 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Total funding: $394.4m
Company benefits
- A chance to improve the U.S. healthcare system at a high-growth company! Our leading healthcare financial platform is scaling rapidly, helping millions of patients per year
- Flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
- Health insurance
- Offices in Manhattan, San Francisco and Salt Lake City
- Free lunch, healthy snacks, cold brew and kombucha on tap (Yup!)
- Guided-meditation and game nights (Weekly!)
- Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
- 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
- Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
- Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on your first day
- 401k plan with 3% employer non-election contribution
- Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a stipend for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
Company values
- Focus on the vision: We enable an exceptional healthcare consumer financial experience through relentless focus, only prioritizing actions that advance us towards this goal.
- Reject mediocrity: We solicit diverse perspectives, set high standards and constantly challenge ourselves to raise the bar on our thinking, people and performance.
- Apply a growth mindset: We maintain an optimistic, constructive and resilient attitude, passionately pursuing our mission, embracing difficult problems and learning from setbacks.
- Use good judgment: We require accountability, bold thinking and a reliance on common sense to prioritize and make informed decisions that reflect our convictions, integrity and core values.
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
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Leadership
Arel Lidow
(Co-Founder)Prior to founding Cedar in 2016, Arel was VP of product at AppNexus where they supervised the development and launch of the company’s flagship products. Arel began their career as a technology associate at Bridgewater Associates, working on trading systems for the world’s largest hedge fund. Graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and a certificate in finance.
Dr. Florian Otto
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where they drove the commercial adoption of the platform. Florian also founded a daily deal company in Brazil (ClubeUrbano) that was eventually acquired by Groupon. After the acquisition, he became Chief Executive Officer of Groupon Brazil. Florian began their business career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds a M.D., D.D.S. and PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany.
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