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Live Assets | IT Staffing Solutions is hiring a Data Scientist\ Health Researcher\Simulation Modeller for one of its clients. You will be working on a project to further develop an AI-based model that simulates patient flows to support healthcare system capacity planning, particularly for seniors and continuing care populations.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, refine, build, and maintain microsimulation models representing patient trajectories through long-term care and other health services settings.
- Use open-source simulation frameworks (e.g., SimPy, mesa, simpyLC in Python; OpenM++, SimYouLate, SimPaths in R) to support discrete-event, agent-based, or hybrid simulations.
- Incorporate demographic, health status, equity stratifiers and care pathway data to model the life-course transitions of older adults through home care, community-based care, inpatient and/or institutional LTC settings.
- Apply model validation, calibration, and sensitivity analysis techniques to ensure internal validity and policy relevance.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams of researchers, data scientists, clinicians, and policy analysts to ensure models are relevant and grounded in real-world data.
- Conduct scenario analyses to evaluate the impact of alternative individual and service level factors on patients’ clinical pathways and resource allocation.
- Communicate model assumptions, limitations, and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Training and transfer of knowledge pertaining the development and methodology for microsimulation modelling, including the preparation of analytical data files, model design, and simulation engine development.
- Maintain documentation and version control of model architecture, parameters, and code.
- Translate simulation outputs into actionable insights for stakeholders by producing clear visualizations, reports, or briefings.
Necessary Skills
- Experience with microsimulation modelling (discrete-event, agent-based, or hybrid).
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or R and use of simulation frameworks (e.g., SimPy, Mesa, OpenM++, SimPaths).
- Experience working with healthcare or patient data.
- Knowledge of model validation, calibration, and sensitivity analysis.
- Experience with data visualization, documentation, and version control (Git).
If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact careers@liveassets.ca for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography, and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training.
This is a new position/Vacancy.
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