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Data Scientist, Actuarial

San Francisco

SpringCube

Full-time - Senior Engineer

Healthcare Services & Tech

Posted 4 weeks ago

Disclosed upon interview

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Job Description

The SpringCube team curated the following job opportunity to help you in your job search. Explore the position below to find your next career move.

Company Overview

A healthcare technology organization is reimagining how people access care by bringing healthcare services directly into patients’ homes. Its platform uses technology inspired by leading marketplace and last-mile delivery systems to make preventive and chronic care more accessible, particularly for patients who face barriers to visiting traditional healthcare facilities.

Key Responsibilities

Actuarial & Economic Modeling

  • Build total-cost-of-care, PMPM, and MLR models using administrative claims data to quantify the long-term impact of healthcare programs.
  • Project how interventions influence healthcare costs, utilization, and risk across multi-year periods.
  • Quantify and communicate uncertainty associated with long-term projections.
  • Produce model outputs and analytical tables that payer actuarial teams can incorporate directly into pricing, reserving, and bid processes.
  • Develop rigorous financial models that demonstrate the economic value of healthcare interventions.

Payer Credibility & Commercial Support

  • Represent the organization in MLR and medical-economics discussions with health plans and their actuarial teams.
  • Translate analytical findings into clear value narratives that can support quality, risk, and financial decision-making.
  • Support commercial teams in evaluating and communicating the financial impact of healthcare programs.
  • Provide actuarially grounded analysis to help support pricing and business development activities.

Measurement & Analytical Rigor

  • Establish rigorous methodologies for determining whether an intervention has genuinely influenced healthcare costs and outcomes rather than simply being correlated with them.
  • Partner with data science teams on causal inference, experimental design, and measurement strategies.
  • Clearly distinguish between value that can be demonstrated through evidence and value that remains an assumption or hypothesis.
  • Promote analytical transparency and methodological rigor across actuarial and economic modeling activities.

Required Qualifications

  • Deep experience building actuarial or health-economic models using administrative claims data.
  • Strong knowledge of total cost of care, PMPM, healthcare utilization, trend, and risk modeling.
  • Strong understanding of methodologies used by health payers, including MLR, risk adjustment, and multi-year financial projections.
  • Strong SQL skills.
  • Proficiency in Python or R.
  • Ability to build, maintain, and own quantitative models from beginning to end.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with actuaries and medical-economics teams.
  • Strong ability to explain complex analytical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Sound understanding of causal inference and the ability to clearly identify what an analytical design can and cannot establish.
  • Strong quantitative reasoning and analytical problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Actuarial credentials such as ASA, FSA, or MAAA, or demonstrated progress toward actuarial examinations.
  • Experience working on the payer side, in value-based care, or within risk-bearing healthcare organizations.
  • Familiarity with Medicare Advantage, Stars, and risk adjustment.
  • Experience producing analytical work that customers or partners have incorporated into pricing or reserving processes.
  • Experience working with healthcare financial and actuarial datasets.
  • Fluency with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor as part of a day-to-day development workflow.
  • Ability to operate effectively in a first-of-function role and establish analytical standards and processes.

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