Senior Data Scientist II
Helix
Data Science
Mexico · Remote
MXN 94,250-121,900 / month + Equity
Posted on Mar 31, 2026
Senior Data Scientist II
Mexico - Remote
Engineering
Remote
Full-time
Who We Are & What We Do
At Helix, our mission is simple: to help everyone improve their lives through their DNA. Ready to make a real-world impact with your skills? At Helix, we're transforming healthcare by making genomics a standard of care. We partner with health systems and life science companies to accelerate the integration of genomic data into clinical practice. Join us in building a future where healthcare is personalized, proactive, and powered by genomics.
Your Career Path & Development
We are committed to your long-term growth. We invest in you through:
- Cutting-Edge AI Tooling: We equip our engineers to innovate at speed. You'll have full access to GitHub Copilot, frontier models (like Claude and OpenAI), Gemini, and other new tools as they emerge, all supported by our dedicated internal AI team.
- Continuous Learning: Sharpen your skills with full access to the entire Udemy learning database.
- Internal Mentorship: Learn from experts across our global team through tech demos, pair programming, and collaborative projects.
- Clear Advancement: We provide a framework for you to grow from one role to the next, with clear expectations and support from your manager.
- Travel: Opportunities to travel to the US for collaboration with our global teams.
As a Senior Data Scientist, you will:
- Analyze data to identify patterns and trends toward improving health and/or financial outcomes, e.g., disease prevalence, risk factors, treatment opportunities, and the effectiveness of health interventions
- Develop a portfolio of reports and data insights that communicates the value and opportunity of Helix population health, diagnostic, and research data for life science companies
- Develop reusable dashboards, analytical reports, datasets, and analytic integrations, by working with medical affairs, research, product, data science, and commercial teams where required
- Evaluate market opportunities by creating and maintaining therapeutic area and service line-specific data models
- Leverage real-world patient data spanning engagement, medical history, outcomes, social determinants, and genetics, partner with life sciences to provide focused and effective data-driven narratives
- Collaborate across multiple teams including analytics, data engineering, medical affairs, clinical, research, business development, strategy, and product
About you:
- Master’s Degree or higher in Data Science, Biostatistics, Medical Informatics, Epidemiology, Public Health, or other related scientific discipline
- At least 3 years of experience working with US healthcare data in health care plan/services, public health, RWE, research, or a related field
- Direct experience using LLMs or agentic tools (Claude Code, Cline, Copilot, etc) in a research or clinical data workflow
- Strong healthcare data experience with electronic health records and/or claims data
- Experience with common clinical coding standards (ex: ICD, CPT, LOINC, SNOMED-CT)
- Understanding of genetic data and knowledge of variant annotation tools and databases
- Strong programming skills in Data Analysis and Visualization, SQL, Python, Databases
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills along with business acumen; desire to learn and grow in healthcare industry
- Worked with real world data and have a strong understanding of analytics and how it is leveraged within the life sciences industry
- Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to jump into new areas
- Knowledge of population health metrics
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders
Pluses:
- Experience working with the OMOP CDM
- Experience working with large-scale genomic data
- Experience using Airflow, Nextflow, or other workflow orchestration
- Experience working in cloud environments
- Experience analyzing RWE data at or with life sciences customers
What We Offer: A Commitment to Your Success
We take care of our team with benefits that provide flexibility and support for your growth—what we call prestaciones superiores a las de la ley.
- Competitive Compensation: A strong base salary plus an annual performance bonus.
- Expected Helix Base: $94,250 - 121,900 MXN/monthly
- Expected Helix Discretionary Annual Bonus: 5% of your annual salary
- Helix Equity
- Comprehensive Health: 100% employer-paid premium for our Bronze Family Health Insurance plan, with eligibility from your first day.
- Allowances & Stipends:
- Home Office Stipend: we will reimburse up to $500 USD for essential workspace items, so you are fully equipped to perform your best.
- Phone Allowance: 700 MXP monthly.
- In-Office Perks: 80 MXP daily for transport and 250 MXP daily for snacks on office days.
- Generous Time Off: Flexible vacation policy plus all national holidays.
- Hybrid & Remote Flexibility:
- Hybrid: Our office is located at WeWork - Varsovia, Mexico City. We gather intentionally in our office space once per week to work on things like pair programming/live collaboration, skillshare sessions, social segments, team lunches, and volunteering opportunities. Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX.
- Remote (for team members living 80 km or more outside Mexico City): We'll invite you to our CDMX office 3-6 times a year for key training and team meetings. These visits are a great chance to connect in person and strengthen our Helix community. Helix cover travel and accommodation.
Expected Interview Process:
1) Recruiter Screen 2) Hiring Manager 3)Technical Interview 4) Virtual Onsite
What To Expect During Your Onboarding Week:
We want to make sure your first week is spent learning the foundations. You will be invited to live orientation sessions and spend time with your hiring manager developing your individual roadmap to success. This experience will include sessions that cover your benefits, security & privacy training, an introduction to the OKR framework used at Helix and our communication tools and norms.
What To Expect During Your First 90 days:
First 30 days: You’ll spend time learning the Helix way, completing training and onboarding for your roles, and getting introduced to your team and relevant stakeholders. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of our customers, our products, the impact we make in the lives of our communities, and how to thrive at Helix through participation in Helix U.
Day 30 - 60: You’ll spend time contributing to projects, deeply familiarizing yourself with team and company processes, and developing a deeper understanding of Helix’s products, services and capabilities.
Day 60 - 90: You’ll build your OKRs with your manager, start to take ownership of projects and initiatives on your team, and begin to demonstrate your impact on the Helix mission.
Helix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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