Protege is looking for an Applied Researcher, Healthcare to bridge the gap between our extensive data assets and the specific needs of our customers in the healthcare vertical. You will ensure our datasets are well-matched and well-understood for the AI models our customers are building, working within a lean, fast-moving team obsessed with velocity and impact.
What You'll Do
- Conduct feasibility analyses by querying healthcare datasets to assess patient cohort availability based on complex inclusion/exclusion criteria.
- Collaborate directly with customers to understand their use cases and support effective data integration.
- Ensure customers have a clear understanding of the data’s structure, limitations, and strengths.
- Identify gaps in our data offerings and provide insights to our partnerships team on the highest-priority data acquisitions.
- Evaluate potential data partnerships, ensuring the data is high-quality, well-documented, and commercially viable.
What We're Looking For
- A Masters or Bachelors degree with industry experience in a quantitative field such as economics, statistics, biostatistics, bioinformatics, computer science, or data science.
- Proficiency with programming in R, Python, or SQL.
- Hands-on experience working with large-scale healthcare datasets, including one or more of the following: imaging, EHR, genomics, claims, or pathology data.
Nice to Have
- Experience in a customer-facing role.
- Experience with unstructured data (e.g., DICOMS, medical notes, pathology slides).
- Familiarity with third-party data certification or audit processes related to privacy and data quality.
- Ability to think creatively and insightfully about large-scale data problems.
Technical Stack
- R, Python, SQL
Team & Environment
You’ll join a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI.
Protege is an equal opportunity employer.
