Principal Data Scientist, Vivian Health
Content Ranking
$220-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
Marketplace for healthcare hiring
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Marketplace for healthcare hiring
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower every healthcare professional to find their perfect job opportunity.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a leader who thrives at the intersection of ML systems, experimentation, and business impact
- 8+ years of professional experience in applied machine learning or data science, with 3+ years in consumer-scale applications
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience with SageMaker, Airflow, and DBT (or equivalent ML/data orchestration platforms)
- Proven track record of training, deploying, and scaling models in production environments
- Deep understanding of statistical methods for experimental design and A/B testing
- Experience with real-time inference pipelines and ranking/recommendation systems
- Ability to distill complex technical insights into clear business recommendations
- Excellent collaboration skills across product, engineering, and operations
What the job involves
- Our machine learning models are already serving real-time ranking decisions for hundreds of thousands of nurses every week, powering the way clinicians discover opportunities on Vivian
- This is not a research-only role, we’re looking for someone who is excited to design, deploy, and optimize ML inference systems at scale
- If your experience goes beyond ideation in Jupyter notebooks and into production-grade ML systems serving millions of requests, this role is for you
- Vivian Health is a remote-first company at the forefront of transforming the healthcare staffing landscape
- The Data Science team powers the intelligence behind our platform, building models that drive personalization, efficiency, and discovery
- We partner closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to design, test, and deploy models that scale to millions of users
- We are now searching for a Principal Data Scientist to lead our efforts in content ranking
- This role will focus on designing and deploying machine learning models that power real-time content ranking, balancing business rules with predictive algorithms to deliver the best possible experience for clinicians and employers
- Build, train, and deploy large-scale machine learning models for real-time content ranking in production
- Design and engineer feature pipelines that capture complex user and content signals
- Partner with product and engineering to translate business objectives into ML models that drive measurable outcomes
- Lead rigorous A/B testing and experiment design, ensuring sound statistical inference and actionable insights
- Drive innovation by ideating and prototyping new modeling techniques and features
- Collaborate with the data engineering team to scale data pipelines with Airflow, DBT, and AWS SageMaker
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other data scientists and engineers
- Balance trade-offs between rule-based systems and machine-learned approaches, aligning with both product goals and user experience
- Within one month, you’ll:
- Deploy your first content ranking model experiment
- Collaborate with engineering to integrate new features into production pipelines
- Establish a framework for evaluating ranking model performance
- Within three months, you’ll:
- Own a major ranking initiative end-to-end, from design to deployment
- Lead analysis of multiple A/B experiments, delivering clear business insights
- Help steer data science roadmap decisions and trade-off discussions
- Within six months, you’ll:
- Roll out a new ranking system that combines business logic with ML-based features
- Mentor other data scientists on best practices for experimentation and evaluation
- Within one year, you’ll:
- Lead Vivian’s personalization and ranking strategy, shaping the user experience for millions of clinicians
- Establish a scalable framework for deploying and monitoring models in real-time production environments
Our take
Vivian is a recruitment and job search platform helping healthcare staff locate and secure new placements. Beginning as "NurseFly", it changed its name in 2021 to reflect a broadening focus from travel nursing positions to healthcare staff at large.
The healthcare recruitment market has long been plagued by costly hiring processes and a lack of transparency. Taking these issues head-on, Vivian’s job match and messaging features streamline and readjust the way this operates, which is how the company has become the largest labor marketplace for US healthcare.
With the increasing turnover in healthcare staff, and fears that many workers will leave the industry entirely, institutions are under increasing pressure to address the shortcomings of healthcare staffing. Vivian is poised to address this issue, making for a large opportunity for its future growth and development.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$60m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $60m
Company benefits
- Flexible Time Off
- Health Insurance
- 401k Match
- Corporate Discount
- Commuter Benefits
- Work From Home
- Parental Leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Parth Bhakta
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Chatous, a messaging platform, and the social Q&A app Kiwi. Has invested in over 65 tech companies as an angel investor.
Eric Conner
(Co-Founder & CTO)Studied Computer Science at Stanford and worked as a software engineer before co-founding Vivian.
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