Applied Health Data Scientist with advanced analytics experience

Job Summary

InnoVet Health is seeking an Applied Health Data Scientist with advanced analytics experience to support national AI initiatives across federal healthcare, with a primary focus on the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is a full‑performance‑level role: candidates must arrive with the technical judgment, operational maturity, and self‑sufficiency to contribute immediately within federal environments.

You will design and evaluate machine learning and LLM‑based solutions, build reproducible pipelines, assess data quality in complex health datasets, and translate analytical findings into actionable insights that improve Veteran care and reduce provider burden. Work includes AI governance, model evaluation, explainability, and continuous monitoring, ensuring all solutions are safe, trustworthy, and aligned with federal priorities and standards.

This role offers remote flexibility, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to shape the future of responsible AI in federal healthcare.

Responsibilities

AI/ML Development & Evaluation

• Design and implement end‑to‑end ML pipelines, including ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, training, evaluation, and deployment, with clear rationale for design choices and tradeoffs.
• Conduct structured evaluations of LLM‑based and agentic AI approaches, including safety, hallucination, robustness, and workflow fit for federal healthcare use cases.
• Apply statistical and machine learning methods in Python and SQL to analyze large healthcare datasets and support use case validation.
• Develop reproducible analyses using version control (git) and experiment‑tracking tools (primarily MLflow).

Data Quality, Readiness & Health Data Expertise

• Audit and assess incoming health data (EHR, claims, operational datasets) for missingness, inconsistency, structural irregularities, and bias; document principled decisions about data handling.
• Collaborate with data engineering and source system owners...