Tempus
Senior Data Scientist, RWD Analytics
$130K–$190K
Chicago +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
Boston
Redwood City
New York City - Experience
- 4+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Clinical Informatics, or a related field.
About the job
Develops and validates clinical heuristics, monitors and improves real-world healthcare data quality, and builds longitudinal patient cohorts for analytics initiatives.
What you'll do
- Design and validate heuristic rules and algorithms for derived clinical concepts; collaborate on validation datasets and ground-truth standards.
- Maintain Python-based data profiling pipelines and build automated data quality checks for schema and valueset adherence.
- Design patient inclusion/exclusion funnels and run large-scale longitudinal cohort pulls; document quality metrics and clinical evaluations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field.
- 4+ years of experience in data science, clinical data analytics, or machine learning, focused on real-world healthcare data.
- Proficiency in Python and highly advanced SQL, including complex relational databases, clinical data models, and ETL pipelines.
- Strong command of evaluation strategies and statistical analysis for AI models, NLP outputs, or clinical heuristics.
Nice to have
- Deep familiarity with oncology data and EHR data structures.
- Experience with data quality frameworks, data profiling tools, and visualization tools.
Pay
$130,000-$175,000 USD base salary; $140,000-$190,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, YAML, matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly, Tableau
AI focus
Evaluates AI models and NLP outputs, and develops and validates clinical heuristics using real-world healthcare data.
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