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# Senior Data Scientist

- **Company:** Lynx MD, Ltd.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Cloud Computing, Data Infrastructure, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Unstructured Data, Feature Engineering, Large Language Models, Electronic Medical Records, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fc7a4452cc269627

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a similar analytical role, with 3+ years in the healthcare industry (required).
 * Experience in client-facing roles and working with pharmaceutical or life sciences companies (required).
 * Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
 * Deep familiarity with Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and healthcare coding systems (CPT, ICD-10, etc.).
 * Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS/GCP) - preferred.
 * A collaborative team player who is self-motivated, quick to learn, and possesses excellent analytical, research, and business acumen.

Extra Credit

 * R, Large Language Models and data pipelines

## Description

* Lead end-to-end medical research projects with top-tier life science companies.
 * Conduct EMR data exploration and extract relevant clinical features.
 * Apply LLM-based feature engineering to transform unstructured data into clinical insights.
 * Support clinical protocol design from a data and feasibility perspective.
 * Perform statistical analyses and present results to clients (dashboards, publications, presentations).
 * Become a subject matter expert in our proprietary healthcare data.
 * Develop cross-client pipelines to support our data infrastructure and product.
 * Build diverse patient cohorts and datasets to continuously enrich Latica's data catalog.


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