Senior / Staff Data Scientist

About Sprinter Health

Sprinter Health is rebuilding healthcare delivery from the ground up. Our mission is to bring high-quality, preventive care directly into the homes of people who are falling through the cracks of the system.

Since 2021, we’ve:

👥 Served 75,000+ patients nationwide

🚀 Grown 6x in 2024 

🌍 Reached 60%+ coverage of the U.S. population

🏥 Partnered with 6 of the 10 largest U.S. health plans

🏦 Raised $70M+ from top-tier investors including a16z, General Catalyst, GV, and Accel

We’re just getting started. Sprinter is becoming the go-to infrastructure for in-home care, powered by smart logistics, modern clinical operations, and data-driven insights. Now, we’re looking for an early Data Science leader to help scale this foundation even further.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing Data team. This is a 0→1 opportunity to apply your skills to real-world healthcare and logistics challenges—where every insight can have a direct impact on people's lives.

If you love asking tough questions and answering them with data, this could be your perfect next step.

What You’ll Work On

You’ll tackle questions like:

⚖️ Balancing clinician supply and patient demand in every region

🤔 Understanding what drives patient engagement for preventive care

🚗 Improving clinician routing simulations by analyzing real-world outcomes

🕚 Reducing last-minute cancellations and reschedules

🔮 Predicting future patient needs and health risks from clinical and behavioral data

What You’ll Own

🧠 50% – Deep, independent exploration of operations, patient behavior, population health, and growth strategy

📈 40% – Supporting internal teams, customer data needs, and ad hoc analysis

🎯 10% – A/B experiment design, rollout, and analysis

You’ll be one of the founding members of Sprinter’s Data org—setting the standards, tooling, and best practices that the rest of the team will grow around.

What You Bring

5+ years of hands-on experience in data science or advanced analytics

Strong business intuition and strategic thinking

Skilled at exploring complex, messy datasets and surfacing actionable insights

Deep experience with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Superset, Grafana)

SQL mastery across warehouses (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, etc.)

Bonus Points For

Experience with:

Pandas, Python, Scikit-learn

ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana)

GCP data infrastructure (BigQuery, DataForm, DataFlow)

Healthcare data (claims, HIEs, CCDAs)

Operations optimization (routing, distributed logistics)

Growth experimentation and rapid iteration

Communicating findings to C-level audiences

Interest in eventually mentoring and building a team

The Fun Stuff™

🍽️ Free lunch daily, fully-stocked micro-kitchen, and coffee/tea bar

🧠 Team off-sites, tech talks, and game hours

🏥 100% of healthcare premiums (PPO, HMO, HSA) covered for you and your family

😎 Dental, vision, and wellness benefits

💸 401(k) matching

🏝️ Unlimited PTO and flexible WFH policy (hybrid – 3 days in office)

🚚 Relocation assistance available

👶 Generous parental leave (4 months birthing parent, 2 months partner, fully paid)

If you're ready to help reimagine healthcare—and want to build data systems that actually move the needle—we'd love to hear from you.

• 50% independent exploration and analysis of things like
• Logistics / operations optimization opportunities
• Patient engagement behavior
• Population health patterns
• Experiment opportunity sizing
• High-level business strategy
• 40% supporting team/business/customer data questions
• 10% A/B experiment design and analysis
• Hybrid - onsite Menlo Park, CA

• Strategic business data analysis
• Exploring complex data sets
• Independently identifying research avenues
• BI / data visualization tools (e.g. Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, Superset, Grafana)
• BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift or other data lake/warehousing solutions

• ELK stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana)
• GCP data infrastructure (DataForm, DataFlow, BigQuery)
• Pandas, Python, sklearn
• Health tech or healthcare data (Claims data, CCDAs, HIEs)
• Operations optimization (vehicle routing, distributed logistics, supply chain)
• Growth experimentation
• C-level executive communications
• People management (for eventually growing the team around you)

• Free lunch everyday and fully-stocked micro-kitchen and coffee/tea bar
• Team off-sites, game hours, tech talks, and design sprints
• Health insurance benefits (PPO / HMO / HSA, 100% of family premiums paid)
• Dental / vision / wellness benefits
• 401k matching
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible work-from-home policy for work/life balance (3 days in-office, accommodation for occasional WFH days)
• Relocation assistance
• Generous parental leave (4 months for the birthing parent, 2 months for a partner, 100% paid)

Sprinter Health is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or other protected classes.

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