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# Staff Data Scientist at Iterative Health

- **Company:** Iterative Health
- **Location:** Cambridge Massachusetts United States New York New York, United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$325k
- **Posted:** 2026-04-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iterativehealth/jobs/4666589006

## Job description

Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes.

We built a leading performance-driven network of 100+ sites across the US, Europe, India, and Australia, conducting research directly in the communities where care is delivered across gastrointestinal, hepatology, obesity, and cardiology. By combining deep clinical trial expertise with cutting-edge AI, we connect sponsors' scientific ambitions with high-performing research teams that expedite and expand access to novel therapeutics for patients in need. Today, Iterative Health is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City with 250+ employees world-wide.

## About the Role

Accelerating clinical research is one of the defining challenges in healthcare. Promising therapies exist that patients can't access because the operational infrastructure to run clinical trials efficiently doesn't exist yet. We're building it. That means designing technology systems that bring order to a fragmented landscape of clinical data sources, automating the operational work that slows trials down, and turning real-world clinical data into a foundation for predictive intelligence.

We're looking for a Staff Data Scientist to be the person who understands our data deeply enough to know what's possible and curious enough to prove it. We have a truly unique data set within the industry, connecting clinical data (emr, endoscopic video, etc…) to trial data across 80+ trial sites. We're looking for someone who wants to dig deeply into this data - to understand its structure, its gaps, what it can tell us - and connect that understanding to real outcomes for sites and patients. The landscape is evolving rapidly, and the right person will have a point of view on how to apply new capabilities to our specific data and problems as they emerge.You'll work hands-on with the data, structure experiments, evaluate what's modelable, and directly influence what we build and how. This role sits at the intersection of data science, product strategy, and ML: you'll lay the foundation for our predictive capabilities and shape what that function becomes.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of a small, fast-moving engineering team at a formative stage. You'll shape what gets built, how decisions get made, and what the team becomes.

## Responsibilities

- Work with clinical, video, and clinical trial operational data to understand what's there, what's meaningful, and how we can use it to drive a more efficient clinical trial system
- Design and run experiments that determine what's worth building
- Stay close to the evolving ML and model landscape and bring a point of view on how new capabilities apply to our data and problems
- Define the path from raw data to product and operationalization: what to model, how to evaluate it, and when it's ready to ship
- Partner with product and engineering to translate findings into concrete product decisions
- Identify opportunities where our data creates unique predictive advantages
- Evaluate where we should build, where we should partner, and where existing approaches fall short
- Help shape the engineering culture of a small, growing team: how technical decisions get made, how problems get debated, what rigor looks like in practice

## What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in data science, applied ML, or quantitative research, with significant time spent hands-on with data
- Experience with healthcare data, clinical research, or life sciences
- A deep curiosity to understand data and connect it to the real world
- Deep experience designing and running experiments: you know how to structure a question, test it honestly, and draw conclusions that hold up
- Strong statistical foundations and the judgment to know when a result is meaningful versus interesting
- Fluent in Python and SQL, comfortable working across the data stack from exploratory analysis through to production-ready pipelines
- Experience working across data science, product, and engineering: you can influence what gets built, not just analyze what exists
- Have worked with complex, messy, real-world data and know how to make it useful without pretending it's clean
- Knowledgeable about ML capabilities and frameworks, with the judgment to know when something is genuinely applicable versus hype
- Can communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, and make a persuasive case for what to build next

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working at growth stage startups (strongly preferred)
- Experience with medical imaging or video data
- Familiarity with clinical trial operations, disease classification, or patient identification problems
- Experience building or defining the roadmap for an ML function from early stages
- A track record of data science work that directly changed product direction

New York pay range $200,000—$325,000 USD

At Iterative Health, we’re actively working towards creating an environment that is representative of the diversity of patients our technology serves. We are focused on building an equitable and inclusive culture, and by extension, hiring process. If you require any accommodations to make the application process or interviewing experience more accessible to you, please contact CandidateAccommodations@iterative.health.

## About Iterative Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company that accelerates clinical research by combining AI-powered tools with a performance-driven global site network, focusing on GI, Hepatology, Obesity, and Cardiology therapies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (also New York, New York)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Jonathan Ng, MBBS (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Healthcare technology, clinical research services, artificial intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – sponsors (pharma/biotech), CROs, and community-based provider networks (clinical research sites)
- **Mission or purpose**: “To accelerate clinical research to bring life-changing therapies to patients sooner, transforming care through expertise and proven results.”

## Products & Services
- **AI-Powered Clinical Trial Platform**: Software that streamlines site selection, patient enrollment, and operational workflows, reducing burden and accelerating trial timelines.
- **Performance-Driven Site Network**: A global network of elite community-based research sites with deep expertise in GI, Hepatology, Obesity, and Cardiology, enabling faster activation and high enrollment.
- **Site Enablement Services**: Operational support, training, and technology to help sites grow their research programs and improve performance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $264 million (including $77 million Series C closed May 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners include GI Alliance, One GI, and US Heart & Vascular (USHV). Specific investors not named in provided materials, but Series C led by investors noted in Business Wire (May 14, 2026).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Raised $77M Series C in May 2026 to accelerate clinical research.
  - Acquired cardiology research sites from NextStage Clinical Research (April 2026), expanding into cardiology.
  - Presented expanded trial performance data at Digestive Disease Week 2026, demonstrating consistent outperformance of industry benchmarks at double the scale.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Therapeutic Focus**: Specialized expertise in GI, Hepatology, Obesity, and Cardiology allows for tailored site selection and patient recruitment that generalist CROs cannot match.
- **AI Integration**: Proprietary AI tools that enhance site selection, pre-screening, and operational efficiency, reducing time-to-market for sponsors.
- **Embedded Community Network**: Sites are integrated into community care settings, giving access to diverse patient populations and enabling faster, more representative enrollment.
- **Performance Track Record**: Proven ability to activate sites faster and achieve industry-leading enrollment metrics, as validated by DDW 2026 data.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Site Network**: Continue acquiring and onboarding high-performing community sites, particularly in cardiology and other adjacent therapeutic areas.
- **Deepen AI Capabilities**: Invest in machine learning and data science to further automate and optimize clinical trial operations.
- **Expand Sponsor Partnerships**: Leverage the combined technology and site network to become the preferred partner for sponsors seeking rapid, reliable trial execution.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: Focus on accelerating life-changing therapies to patients; work directly impacts patient access and trial efficiency.
- **Values: G.R.I.T.**: The company emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, compassion, resilience, and innovation. Described as a “people-first team of builders.”
- **Benefits**: 75% paid company benefits, 401k with 3% company match, health insurance, life/STD/LTD, and paid time off plus company holidays.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office presence in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. Open roles span clinical operations, engineering, data science, finance, marketing, and more.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Company is well-funded (Series C, $264M total raised) and actively expanding through acquisitions and headcount, providing career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [iterative.health](https://iterative.health/) – Company homepage, mission, partners, news
2. [iterative.health/about-us](https://iterative.health/about-us/) – Founding story, team, leadership
3. [iterative.health/iterative-health-careers](https://iterative.health/iterative-health-careers/) – Culture, benefits, values
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/iterativehealth](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iterativehealth) – Current job openings (35 roles)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/iterative-scopes) – Funding history, total raised, stage

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