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Location
San Francisco
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Contact:
Amelia Jones
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Contact email:
amelia@intelletec.com
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Startdate:
ASAP
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Consultant:
Amelia Jones
Senior Data Scientist (Biomedical NLP) | Mission-Driven MedTech Stealth Start-up
Intelletec has partnered with a Mission-Driven MedTech company, who's products will have a real-life impact on the future of diagnosing and treating illnesses, injuries, and diseases. The mission is to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare; making the highest quality healthcare available to everyone.
Senior NLP data scientists define and implement strategies to handle free-form medical text, including developing internal NLP packages and/or heavily customizing open-source solutions. They contribute to the development of ontologies and associated biomedical tooling, and support various other data science initiatives.
Responsibilities
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Design and implement NLP pipelines to extract structured content from free-form radiology text
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Help define and build core ontologies
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Define NLP methodologies, including information models and ontologies
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Develop or heavily customize open source solutions for Named Entity Recognition, POS tagging, and syntactic dependency parsing that will work on domain-specific medical data
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Develop tools for manual and automated label annotation of free-text radiology reports
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Work with annotation team to develop labeled training and test datasets
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Build internal tools and define associated statistics to provide insight into algorithm performance
Requirements
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Advanced degree in computational linguistics, informatics, or related field
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Experience building and using ontologies and knowledge graphs to support natural language processing, data integration, and analytics
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Deep understanding of core NLP/NLU algorithms, tasks, model architectures, and open-source resources: CRFs, Neural Networks (LSTMs, dense vector embeddings), rules-based/regex approaches. Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation, POS tagging, syntactic dependency parsing. spaCy, gensim, NLTK, StanfordNLP, annotation tools (e.g. Brat, Daccano)
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Track record building and productionizing NLP models in an industry setting
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Expert coding ability
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Experience leading teams and mentoring junior data scientists
Benefits
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Stock
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Competitive salaries
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Paid time off
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Medical insurance
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401(k)
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Apple equipment
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Dedicated research computing resources
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Catered lunches and team events
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Sponsorship for conferences