About this opportunity
Pedestal Health lists this Principal Data Scientist opportunity in raleigh, North Carolina. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist to join Pedestal Health's Quantitative Sciences (QS) organization. In this role, you will build the infrastructure and methods that make AI-assisted analytics and real-world data quality work fast, scalable, and genuinely trustworthy.
Your work will span two connected areas. The first is AI-enabled analytics: building and maintaining AI tooling and workflows that let our team identify cohorts, review analysis code, and carry out recurring analytic work faster and more consistently. The second is AI-enabled data quality: designing automated and agentic approaches that scale across schemas, sites, and data refreshes, and that surface issues before they reach an analysis or a client.
This is a role about building capability, not about producing analyses. You will design, build, and scale the internal tools that change how our teams work with real-world data — and you will own them as products, with users, versions, quality standards, and a roadmap. This is a hands‑on role that combines individual technical contribution with technical leadership, including mentorship and review of other data scientists' work. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Medical, and Commercial teams, and report to the Head of Quantitative Sciences.
What You’ll Do
Build and Scale Internal Tooling
You will make AI a dependable part of how our analytic work gets done, not an occasional shortcut.
Build, maintain, and improve AI-powered tooling that lets the team generate commercial cohort counts and conduct feasibility reliably and repeatably
Extend the same approach to other recurring analytic work, including generating and reviewing analysis code, and supporting protocol and analysis plan development
Gather requirements from the internal teams who depend on these tools, treat them as users, and iterate on real feedback rather than assumed needs
Own what keeps this tooling trustworthy over time (how it is tested against known‑correct results, how updates are validated before release, and how performance is monitored as the underlying data evolves), and where human review remains mandatory
Scale adoption across the team through documentation, training, onboarding, and hands‑on enablement
Help define the guardrails for AI use in client‑facing work: what data may be used, how outputs are reviewed and by whom, and how provenance is recorded
AI‑Enabled Data Quality
You will design the infrastructure that tells us whether our data is trustworthy, before anyone else has to find out.
Rethink how our data quality checks are built and run, so that assessing a new source or a refreshed schema no longer means redoing the work each time
Move quality assessment beyond manual review and spreadsheet outputs, toward an automated approach with a durable record of what was checked, what was found, and how it was resolved
Determine where AI and agentic approaches genuinely add leverage in this work, and where deterministic, reproducible checking should remain the foundation
Define how we will know the system is working, including whether the people who receive quality signals continue to trust them and act on them
Partner with Engineering on pipeline integration, orchestration, and monitoring
Cross‑Functional Collaboration and Team Development
You will connect data science to the teams that build, sell, and deliver on top of it.
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Medical Science, Clinical Operations, and Commercial teams
Advocate effectively for the quality and validation work that AI‑assisted products require, including in roadmap and prioritization discussions
Keep pace with developments in AI tooling and methods, and actively push what proves useful into our standards, training, and tooling
Provide technical oversight, code review, and mentorship to other data scientists, and own the standards their work is measured against
Help grow the data science group as it expands
What You’ll Bring
MS or PhD in data science, statistics, computer science, computational biology, or a related quantitative field; equivalent practical experience will be considered
Experience working with real‑world healthcare data — EHR, claims, or registry — including direct familiarity with its structural and quality challenges
A track record of building internal tools, platforms, or analytic products used by other people, and owning them through multiple versions — not solely a record of delivering analyses
Strong programming ability in Python and SQL, with experience in a cloud data warehouse environment such as Snowflake
Demonstrated ownership of a data quality, testing, or observability system end to end, not only authoring individual checks
Practical experience building with large language models beyond prototyping, including prompt and workflow design and a clear point of view on how to evaluate whether an LLM‑based system is actually working
Comfort working in raw, messy, poorly documented source data, and the curiosity and persistence to figure out what it actually contains
Experience working cross‑functionally with product and engineering partners, and the ability to hold a technical line constructively when priorities compete
Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain a method’s limitations as readily as its results
Interest in growing into technical leadership, including mentoring and reviewing the work of other data scientists
What we offer you
Hybrid work — 3 days/week in our brand-new office!
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision for you and your family
401(k) with company match
Generous PTO and company holidays
Paid parental leave
Hybrid role: Located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
If you are ready to be part of a team where your work truly matters—where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape the future of healthcare—Pedestal Health is the place for you. We’re building something meaningful together, and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Pedestal Health is an equal opportunity employer and seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds and abilities.
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Worksite address
raleigh, NC, 27601, US
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