Our healthcare is in crisis, and we need to do something about it. This is why we come to work every morning.

Nightingale Health’s mission is to build sustainable healthcare and reduce health inequalities. Nightingale Health has developed the world’s most advanced health check that provides risk detection for multiple chronic diseases from a single blood sample.

It’s time to start building a better health system for everyone.

At Nightingale Health, we're all about people who, rather than just repeat and secure the old, want to create something new; people who love to learn more to be able to build something better, something meaningful – better healthcare for the world. 

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our Health Insights team in Helsinki, Finland.

You will be part of the Health Insights team, which combines cutting-edge scientific research with real-world delivery. The team conducts research using large-scale biobank data, develops novel risk models, and creates new methods and pipelines for analyzing metabolomic and proteomic data. Alongside this, a key aspect of the role is ensuring that this work translates into impact: delivering high-quality, production-ready results to research customers and collaborators on time, and working closely with internal teams to integrate new methods into robust, scalable production systems suitable for use in healthcare.

At Nightingale Health, you’ll be enabling a technology and approach that has the potential to change the health of billions of people.

The position is full-time and based in Helsinki, Finland.

Here are the challenges we have for you:

• Hands-on data analysis in a globally unique dataset of molecular and clinical measurements to build models that predict people’s future health risks and identify how to prevent common diseases.

• Taking charge of delivering results, both to internal and external collaborators and customers.

• Work with other data scientists and software engineers in an agile environment to bring new discoveries into our products.

• Develop new analysis ideas and techniques, and take leadership in implementing them, demonstrating their efficacy, and promoting them within our team and beyond.

• Carry out analysis for clinical and academic partnerships using our technology.

• Write clean, readable code for your own analysis and to be used as the basis for future products. Review teammates’ code to maintain high standards.

• Travel to national and international events to present our scientific work to research and clinical audiences.

You are our perfect match if you ...

• Have a PhD, or a Master’s degree plus 3 years of experience, in a healthcare data science field (bioinformatics, data science, epidemiology, or applied statistics).

• Have experience developing data-driven solutions or products in a clinical or healthcare context that create value, with the ability to identify user needs and shape what should be built.

• Have good experience working with human healthcare cohort data in the past, including data acquisition, cleaning, modelling, and interpretation.

• Have proven ability to write high-quality data science code in R.

• Can work in a fast-paced environment with a focus on getting things done.

• Want to make a difference in building better preventative healthcare.

• Are excited about learning new things from big datasets.

• Have excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

These will help you to succeed in this role:

• Experience with analysis of ‘omics data (metabolomics, proteomics, genetics, transcriptomics) in the context of human cohort studies of disease.

• Past knowledge, training, or research experience in human metabolism.

• Past knowledge, training, or research experience in preventative medicine or screening (risk stratification, primary or secondary preventative interventions).

• Experience working with others to translate scientific findings into clinical or commercial use.

• Diverse backgrounds! Don’t worry if you don’t exactly meet these requirements; we’d still like to hear from you.

Why you’ll love working at Nightingale Health:

• A wide-open field for turning analysis ideas into real benefits. The potential use cases are broad (any field of healthcare across three continents). We have very large datasets to test out ideas. We have a track record of regulatory approval for bringing risk prediction tools to market. You can go from idea to proof-of-concept analysis to implementation faster than in almost any other biotech job.

• Meaningful, pioneering work that offers you the opportunity to make a difference in the world. Preventative healthcare is a major challenge that needs good brains!

• A unique opportunity to work in an international and multidisciplinary team of scientists, developers, designers, and biotech business experts.

• A chance to develop your skills to a high standard in the biotech world.

• Responsibility and independence as an accountable member of our Health Insights team.

• A flexible and informal working environment with both professional office capabilities as well as hybrid working possibilities.

• Team get-togethers.

What to expect from the recruitment process:

Step 1: Application period is 7 days.

Step 2: Application review. Every applicant will get a response after this stage.

Step 3: Video call with Talent Acquisition (Talent Acquisition Specialist, Anna Zhidkova).

Step 4: Complete our data science assignment, which will be reviewed by the team.

Step 5: Video call with our Principal Scientist and Team Lead, Luke Jostins-Dean.

Step 6: Meet our Chief R&D Officer, Salla Ruosaari, and other members of our team at an in-person interview.

Step 7: Meet our CEO, Teemu Suna, for the final interview.

Note to Recruiters and Placement Agencies: Nightingale Health does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our website or to any Nightingale Health employee. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency or firm and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered the property of Nightingale Health Oyj.