# Forward Deployed Data Scientist at Layer Health

- Company: Layer Health
- What the company does: We have built the AI-layer for chart review—to unlock value and improve care by identifying insights from longitudinal medical charts at scale. Backed by GV.
- Company website: https://www.layerhealth.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Boston or NYC
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/layerhealth/jobs/5392521008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/layer-health-forward-deployed-data-scientist/

## About the role

We’re hiring our first Forward Deploy Data Scientist. You’ll work directly with customers and internal teams to translate messy healthcare data into actionable insights and machine learning–ready pipelines. You’ll work hand-in-hand with our world-class ML and broader engineering team, as well as our product and customer success teams.

## What they're looking for

- Partner directly with health systems and hospital customers to understand their data, workflows, and goals, sharing data insights that enable our customers to understand our product value and areas of opportunity
- Design and execute data and ML investigations— validating, and transforming large structured and unstructured healthcare datasets with state of the art models to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness
- Deploy, build, and operationalize ML and LLM-based models and analytics pipelines in collaboration with the broader engineering and product teams
- Work hand-in-hand with customer success and product teams to understand and improve user engagement through data-driven analyses
- Communicate results and insights clearly to technical, product, and clinical stakeholders
- Build reusable playbooks, tools, and best practices to accelerate future implementations and improve customer outcomes

Tags: Data Science