Data Scientist at Fira Health in New York City, NY

About Us

We are fixing US healthcare by building an AI-native physical care platform, starting with home health.

Home health is a $140B industry with less than $10B in EBITDA — 40% of revenue is spent on pure administrative waste. We automate this work with AI, creating a fundamentally different cost structure compared to incumbents. This lets us rapidly take market share by serving the 30% of patients who go untreated today.

By reshaping the cost structure of this industry, we unlock its growth.

We've built one of the best AI teams in the world (from Character AI, Scale, Palantir, Citadel, Jane Street) and paired them with a team of healthcare veterans to build a new type of healthcare company: one that delivers care at the speed of an AI company.

Our physical care platform already operates with 30pp higher gross margins than traditional home health providers. With our AI advantage, we pay nurses more, remove their admin burden, and unlock the scale economics that have been missing from this fragmented industry. If we served this entire $140B market, instead of $10B in EBITDA, we'd drive $60B.

We're starting with home health, then expanding to all delivered care. Our mission is "any care, any where".

Fundamentally, our incentives are aligned with America. Every dollar in revenue we make is two dollars taken out of the healthcare system. If we succeed, so does US healthcare.

The Opportunity

We're building the intelligence layer that measures, monitors, and optimizes every aspect of our healthcare operations. You'll translate complex healthcare operations into actionable insights, design metrics and dashboards that guide strategic decisions, and empower teams across the organization to make data-driven decisions at scale.

A successful Data Scientist at Fira is analytical, business impact-minded, and comfortable translating ambiguous questions into clear actionable insights. You'll have significant ownership over how we measure success, identify opportunities, and track performance across our company’s clinical and back-office operations.

Over time, you'll define the analytical frameworks that shape how we operate, setting the standard for how we use data to drive business outcomes. Our target is to build systems that drive the marginal cost to zero of having data-driven decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders across product, engineering, growth, and clinical operations teams to define metrics frameworks and KPIs that track operational health, quality, and financial performance

• Build the company-wide data observability platform to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and high-leverage opportunities for process improvement, product roadmap, and growth initiatives

• Design and build interactive dashboards, reports, and self-serve analytics tools that surface key business metrics for operations, finance, and executive leadership

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years in a data science, analytics, or business intelligence role, with a proven track record of building dashboards and metrics that informed strategic decisions

• Hands-on experience with modern BI tools (Hex, Sigma, Tableau, Looker, or similar) to build interactive dashboards and self-serve analytics

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills — able to structure ambiguous problems, perform exploratory analysis, and generate clear, actionable recommendations

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into business insights for executives, operators, and cross-functional stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python for statistical analysis and exploratory data analysis

• Familiarity with healthcare operations, metrics, or data — clinical, financial, or operational

• Familiarity with the downstream engineering stack: ETLs, orchestrators, infrastructure

What We Offer

• Opportunity for growth in a fast-growing company

• Collaborative team valuing innovation and problem-solving

• Competitive salary and equity compensation

• Flexible time off policy—we expect most employees to take at least 3 weeks of vacation per year

• In-office lunches, dinners, and snacks to fuel your focus and well-being

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer contribution

• Comprehensive health insurance, dental, and commuter benefits

Location

This role is in-person 3-5 days a week in our New York City office