Opportunity Overview: As a Staff Applied Scientist, you will play a critical technical leadership role on Cohere Health’s AS team, with a primary focus on powering and scaling machine learning capabilities across our products. You will apply state-of-the-art machine learning, large language models, and agentic architectures to complex clinical and operational intake workflows, helping automate decision-making, improve data quality, and reduce administrative burden for clinical teams. In this role, you will partner closely with clinical operations, product, and engineering teams to uncover hidden drivers, inform strategic decisions, and design and evaluate ML systems that directly impact how members and providers experience Cohere Health at the front door of care. This role blends deep hands-on technical work with strategic influence, mentorship, and ownership across multiple work streams, while contributing to broader ML initiatives. What you’ll do: Design, develop and evaluate advanced machine learning systems for retrieval, classification, prediction, and generative use cases. Apply advanced statistical and ML techniques to extract insights from large-scale structured and unstructured healthcare datasets. Lead model development across the ML lifecycle, including experimentation, training, evaluation, partnering with AI engineering to support deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Write and maintain reusable codebases to perform data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and deployment Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, clinicians, data engineers, BI engineers, and design teams to translate business and clinical needs into robust ML solutions. Drive experimentation by defining problem statements, forming falsifiable hypotheses, and designing rigorous evaluation frameworks tied to business outcomes. Review, communicate, and present ML insights and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership. Serve as a
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Opportunity Overview: As a Lead Applied Scientist, you’ll join our growing team of world-class applied scientists and clinical experts to deploy machine learning models that help automate burdensome administrative clinical practices. Our AS team’s work is focused on designing, prototyping, and partnering with AI Engineering to deploy and monitor production models which extract or predict relevant clinical findings from structured and unstructured data sources. What you’ll do: Design and develop advanced machine learning algorithms for retrieval, classification and generative use cases. Write and maintain reusable codebases to perform data preprocessing, model training, and model evaluation Provide scientific and machine learning best practice guidance to junior engineers Work cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders, including product managers, clinicians, and technical leadership t
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Department · Machine Learning & Data Science
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Cohere Health
AI-powered prior authorization and payment integrity solutions that streamline utilization management, reduce costs, and improve care access for health plans.
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