About Abett 

Abett envisions a world where everyone has access to high quality, affordable, and timely healthcare. We exist to build innovative solutions that deliver transparency, accountability, and competition to the healthcare system.

The flow of healthcare data is complex and messy. Employers are the key consumer of healthcare in the US, but historically, they could not leverage their benefits plan data. The Abett Lockbox empowers employers to take control of their data and achieve better outcomes, lower costs, and less headache for their benefits staff and plan members.

Our problem

Why are we hiring a Sr. Data Scientist, with a specific focus on predictive modeling?

• Abett’s clients are large, US-based employers. They use Abett’s signature product, the Lockbox, to aggregate and manage a broad array of benefit plan data. This includes individual-level information from internal HR systems; benefits eligibility systems; claims data from third-party administrators and pharmacy benefits managers; and “activity” data from point solutions and other plan vendors.
• Abett is expanding our efforts to develop predictive models to understand the health of member populations, the drivers of employer-sponsored healthcare costs, and the value of benefit offerings.In light of our expanding predictive modeling offerings,
• Abett’s Health Economics and Outcomes Research team is looking for a machine learning focused data scientist to join our team which includes a mix of predictive modeling and causal inference specialists.

We are hiring a Sr. Data Scientist to develop predictive models and support broader data science infrastructure improvements and initiatives.

Role Summary

This role’s objectives are to develop predictive models for cost, utilization, and health outcomes primarily using healthcare claims data in addition to supplemental sources such as point solution specific data feeds and HR information system databases. The role will require investing time in data cleaning, data management, model development, and learning about specific priority clinical domains.

As key deliverables, this team works on both product development that often includes pilots with specific clients and follow-up product development by our Data Engineering and Software Development teams. Our team also pursues independent research in our priority clinical and healthcare domains including peer-reviewed publications. If you are interested in the combination of product development and research, this is the role for you!

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaboratively develop our predictive modeling strategy and create those predictive offerings from scratch as pilot projects with our employer clients.
• Engage with Abett’s Data Engineering, Information Security, and Software Development teams to execute analyses using coding best practices in Python.
• Support our Data Engineering and Operations teams to create and improve data infrastructure and ETL pipelines.
• Collaborate and lead conference abstract submissions and paper publications with other members of the Health Economics and Outcomes Research team.
• Engage with clients to ensure predictive models and analytic insights are meaningful.

Qualifications and Skills

• Master’s degree or PhD in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related quantitative field.
• Expertise working with healthcare claims with 3+ years of claims-based role history (5+ years required for masters-level applicants).
• Demonstrated self-sufficiency in designing, validating, optimizing and implementing predictive models leveraging both statistical and machine learning approaches.
• Ability to develop coding infrastructure and production-level code in Python. Experience in R and SQL is also valuable for cross-team collaboration.
• Interest in owning specific disease-area application domains within the team such as diabetes, obesity, or cardiovascular care.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure) and version control systems (e.g., Git) is a plus.

Why Abett?

• Opportunity to join a high-growth, venture-backed software company, with a clear and important mission.
• Competitive market salary and equity options.
• Flexible hours/scheduling. Work remotely. Fully paid health, dental and vision benefits available. Unlimited PTO.

Compensation range: $170,000 / year - $200,000 / year + equity    

Abett is committed to equity and inclusion as an Equal Opportunity Employer. Abett does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Employment is conditional upon passing a background check and providing confirmation of the legal right to work in the United States.