Flagship Pioneering
Director, Health Data Science
$192K–$253K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
FL113 - Experience
- At least 8 years across AI research, health data science, clinical evidence generation, or product development; includes success in early-stage or zero-to-one environments.
- Education
- PhD or master’s degree in biostatistics, computational biology, epidemiology, mathematics, computer science, or another relevant quantitative discipline, combined with deep healthcare or life-sciences experience.
About the job
Leads FL113’s health data science agenda, clinical AI model development and validation, evidence generation, and research organization to establish product readiness and clinical utility.
What you'll do
- Set the research roadmap and scientific standards for health data models.
- Oversee model development, validation, clinical studies, and evidence plans in partnership with Engineering, Product, Clinical, Regulatory, and GTM.
- Recruit and lead a multidisciplinary research team and communicate scientific findings and limitations to stakeholders.
What they ask for
- At least 8 years of experience across AI research, health data science, clinical evidence generation, or product development, including success in early-stage or zero-to-one environments.
- Deep hands-on expertise in machine learning for structured and unstructured health data, including causal inference, deep learning, survival analysis, and longitudinal modeling.
- Experience taking clinical AI models from research through real-world validation and into production, and designing, executing, and interpreting retrospective and prospective clinical studies.
- Fluency with Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and AI-enabled development workflows.
Nice to have
- Track record building and leading multidisciplinary teams in fast-moving environments.
- Experience with healthcare data standards and clinical vocabularies such as FHIR, HL7, OMOP, SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, CPT, and RxNorm.
Pay
$192,000 - $253,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, FHIR, HL7, OMOP, SNOMED, LOINC
AI focus
Develops and validates clinical AI models for health data, and applies AI-enabled tools and agentic workflows to accelerate research, experimentation, analysis, and team productivity.
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