Cambia Health Solutions is dedicated to creating a person-focused and economically sustainable healthcare system. They are seeking an AI Scientist I to design, develop, and implement data-driven solutions using advanced analytical tools in the healthcare payer domain. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders to deliver models and products that improve health journeys for members.
Responsibilities
- Researches, designs, develops, and implements data-driven models and algorithms using generative AI, machine learning, deep learning, statistical, and other statistical modeling techniques
- Trains and tests models, and develops algorithms to solve business problems
- Adheres to standard best-practices and establishes principled experimental frameworks for developing data-driven models
- Develops models and performs experiments and analyses that are replicable by others
- Uses open-source packages and managed services when appropriate to facilitate model development
- Identifies, measures, analyzes, and visualizes drivers to explain model performance (e.g, feature importance, interpretability, bias and error analysis), both offline (in the development phase) and online (in production)
- Uses appropriate metrics and quantified outcomes to drive AI model and algorithm improvements
Skills
- Bachelor's degree (masters or PhD preferred) in a strongly quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research, Bioinformatics, or Econometrics
- 0-3 years of related work experience
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of generative AI, machine learning and data science
- Ability to use well-understood techniques and existing patterns to build, analyze, deploy, and maintain models
- Effective in time and task management
- Able to develop productive working relationships with colleagues and business partners
- Strong interest in the healthcare industry
- Understanding of foundation models, transformer architectures, and techniques for working with large language models (LLMs)
- Experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning approaches, and evaluation methods for generative models
- Strong mathematical foundation and theoretical grasp of the concepts underlying machine learning, optimization, etc
- Demonstrated understanding of how to structure simple machine learning pipelines (e.g, has prepared datasets, trained and tested models end-to-end)
- Strong foundation in data analysis
- Strong python programming skills
- Familiarity with standard data science packages
- Familiarity with standard software development best practices
- Strong SQL skills a plus
- Understanding of standard algorithms and data structures (ex. search and sort) and their analysis
- Researches, designs, develops, and implements data-driven models and algorithms using generative AI, machine learning, deep learning, statistical, and other statistical modeling techniques
- Trains and tests models, and develops algorithms to solve business problems
- Adheres to standard best-practices and establishes principled experimental frameworks for developing data-driven models
- Develops models and performs experiments and analyses that are replicable by others
- Identifies, measures, analyzes, and visualizes drivers to explain model performance (e.g, feature importance, interpretability, bias and error analysis), both offline (in the development phase) and online (in production)
- Uses appropriate metrics and quantified outcomes to drive AI model and algorithm improvements
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members, including mental health benefits.
- Annual employer contribution to a health savings account.
- Generous paid time off varying by role and tenure in addition to 10 company-paid holidays.
- Market-leading retirement plan including a company match on employee 401(k) contributions, with a potential discretionary contribution based on company performance (no vesting period).
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental time off (eligibility requires 12 months of continuous service with Cambia immediately preceding leave).
- Award-winning wellness programs that reward you for participation.
- Employee Assistance Fund for those in need.
- Commute and parking benefits.
Company Overview
- Cambia Health Solutions is a nonprofit total health solutions company based in the Pacific Northwest/Intermountain region, serving It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.cambiahealth.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- Cambia Health Solutions has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 12 in 2025, 11 in 2024, 7 in 2023, 12 in 2022, 23 in 2021, 24 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.