Who is Mindstrong?

Mindstrong is a human-centered technology company, focused on optimizing the consumer experience for receiving and providing best-in-class mental healthcare across the illness and demographic spectrum. We are actively deploying a new learning behavioral health system, which relies on rapid innovations in low- burden measurement science and coordinated care delivery, focused on helping individuals living with a serious mental illness (SMI) live their fullest lives. Our services are offered to people with an SMI through active partnerships with several nationwide health insurance payers.

We’re setting out to radically simplify mental healthcare for those living with a serious mental illness. Join us on this important journey! 

What is the Senior Data Scientist - Research Lead role?

We’re looking for a Data Scientist Research Lead to join our growing team of people passionate about changing mental healthcare. In this role, you will work cross functionally to help define and execute our data science research strategy, partnering with engineers, product managers, data analysts, and the clinicians who directly deliver care to our Mindstrong members. You will lead projects leveraging our extensive amount of longitudinal data, unlocking personalized digital signatures of disease trajectories and patient disposition. Some of the problems you will work on include predicting and measuring mental health outcomes, optimizing care plans and member interactions, better data representations and similarity measures for members, and personalized intervention strategies. Our team works across the company to help drive decision-making, and your work will have a direct impact on our members.

What you'll be doing: 

• Advancing the disciplines of anomaly detection, similarity/distance measures, and online representation learning from longitudinal data within the healthcare space
• Optimize and integrate feedback loops to personalize symptom manifestations in serious mental illness
• Become an expert in building healthcare applications that integrate human-computer interaction patterns, passive mobile sensor data, and active member feedback, impacting the lives of millions of people daily
• Work with a high-performance engineering team to deploy these applications within a scalable and distributed infrastructure  

Who you are: 

• You feel good about your work knowing that what you do will affect the lives of millions of people around the world 
• An amazing developer; technical challenges of all types excite you 
• Entrepreneurial and eager to thrive in a startup environment 
• Strong communicator (oral and written) 

Your background and skills: 

• PhD (strongly preferred) or MS with equivalent experience in statistics, computer science or related mathematical disciplines with an emphasis on both theoretical analysis and algorithmic implementation 
• Strong research background and demonstrated publication history through various channels (e.g. peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, white papers, online media, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years of experience developing both statistical and machine learning models with at least 3 years in the industry 
• End-to-end project experience using machine learning or deep learning to solve complex real-world problems: This includes (but not limited to) feature engineering, dimensionality reduction, algorithm development, cross-validation, neural network architecture design
• Track record of delivering concrete implementations on tight schedules 
• Experience using Python/R, TensorFlow & Keras, (Py)Torch, Spark, SQL, No-SQL (Mongo)
• Experience with AWS stack (S3, Redshift) a strong plus

Competitive Benefits: 

• Remote work! While we have offices in the Bay Area and would love to see you in person, we’re a flexible first company - work where you do your best work.
• A robust healthcare package, including Medical, Dental, and Vision plans, plus more!
• Wellness programs designed to help you stay financially, emotionally, and physically healthy! 
• Savings through a company sponsored 401k plan
• We take self-care personally, we offer 11 paid holidays + Flexible PTO so you can create balance between work and play
• Flexible schedules - we’re all over the U.S., so we can flex schedules easily with core hours to ensure solid collaboration time and flex beyond that

Mindstrong is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that celebrates diversity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All individuals seeking employment at Mindstrong are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. Mindstrong also strives for a safe and robust workplace and prohibits harassment of any kind. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation for interviewing, please let us know by emailing [email protected]