Senior Research Scientist

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Machine Learning & Research

Senior Research Scientist to lead hypothesis-driven research translating continuous physiological data into meaningful, real-world insights. Focus on understanding health, behavior, and context interactions over time, modeling trajectories, variability, and individual response patterns using statistical modeling and/or machine learning methods in Python or R. Experience with probabilistic methods, Bayesian inference, and/or causal inference for longitudinal/time-series data is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead hypothesis-driven research that translates continuous physiological data into meaningful, real-world insights
  2. focus on understanding how health, behavior, and context interact over time at the individual and population level
  3. design and execute research that goes beyond detection to model trajectories, variability, and individual response patterns to enable more accurate and actionable insights

Skills

Required

  • PhD (or equivalent experience) in a quantitative or health-related field
  • Strong background in health science
  • experience modeling longitudinal or time-series data
  • Proficiency in statistical modeling and/or machine learning methods
  • demonstrated experience using Python or R
  • advanced modeling techniques for longitudinal/time-series data
  • probabilistic methods
  • Bayesian inference
  • causal inference
  • connecting data analysis to real-world applications
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Neuroscience
  • Computer Science
  • public health and clinical concepts
  • within-person variability in real-world settings
  • product, wellness, clinical, or operational

What the JD emphasized

  • modeling longitudinal or time-series data
  • longitudinal/time-series data

Other signals

  • modeling longitudinal data
  • individual and population level insights
  • health science
  • time-series data