Sr Data Scientist
HealthCareUnited States
Posted April 6, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
HealthCare.com is a data-driven marketplace founded in 2014 that helps millions of consumers explore, shop for, and enroll in health insurance and Medicare plans. Using proprietary data and machine learning technology, the company matches consumers with distributors to ensure they get the right plan. Pivot Health, an insurance marketing company and healthcare services provider, offers custom coverage solutions and a portfolio of non-proprietary health insurance options.
Job Description
HealthCare.com is hiring a Sr Data Scientist to own and evolve their core production bidding system. The role involves working with stakeholders to define problems, design solutions, and ship production-ready models that impact the business. The ideal candidate is a pragmatic and adaptable data scientist who can move between modeling, data engineering, and software development as the problem requires.
Requirements
- Strong Python experience, including writing code that runs in production systems.
- Solid SQL skills and experience working with analytical databases (Snowflake or similar).
- Hands-on experience training and tuning tree-based models (e.g., LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost) on real, messy data.
- Experience deploying, maintaining, or owning ML models beyond experimentation (APIs, batch jobs, or streaming systems).
- Comfort working across dev, staging, and production environments.
- Ability to operate with limited guidance: you can ask good questions, propose solutions, and move work forward independently.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work from home
- Excellent work environment
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Up to 15 days of paid time off
- 12 company observed holidays
- 401k plan with company match
- Life insurance
- Professional growth opportunity
