Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. John Snow Labs is an award-winning AI and NLP company, accelerating progress in data science by providing state-of-the-art software, data, and models. They are seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist to contribute to transformative initiatives within the healthcare industry, focusing on developing and optimizing machine learning models and building robust data pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Train, fine tune, and enhance LLM & NLP models using the open-source Python library ecosystem. Experience with LLMs, Generative AI, and deep learning is a significant advantage
- Build data science and data engineering pipelines specific to analyzing clinical data, such as extracting information from medical text or images, or integrating uncertain information from multiple medical data sources
- Collaborate with our team on customer-facing projects, utilizing your expertise to create advanced machine learning, deep learning, large language models, and time series forecasting pipelines tailored to address specific business needs
- Ensure models are validated for issues like bias, overfitting, and concept drift to ensure reliability and effectiveness
- Engage directly with customers, requiring strong oral and written communication skills to convey complex technical concepts clearly
Skills
- Proven experience in consistently delivering real-world projects covering the key responsibilities. Knowledge that is limited to an academic setting, or to using existing APIs to building applications, is not sufficient for this role
- Hands-on experience with OMOP, FHIR, clinical terminologies, and understanding of the patient journey
- Strong background in healthcare-related fields such as medicine, pharma, bioinformatics, or biostatistics is highly beneficial
- Experience in developing and optimizing machine learning models, specifically within healthcare contexts
- Proficient in training and fine-tuning models, building robust, production-ready model inference pipelines, and conducting comprehensive exploratory data analysis and data enrichment
- Strong oral and written communication skills to convey complex technical concepts clearly
- A PhD in a relevant field is preferred but not required if exceptional experience is demonstrated
- Experience with John Snow Labs' technology stack, such as Spark NLP or the medical language models, is a plus
Benefits
- A chance to work on cutting-edge problems in healthcare and life sciences, contributing to meaningful projects that impact patient outcomes.
- Long-term freelancing contracts with a commitment of at least 30 hours per week.
- The opportunity to grow your skills and knowledge, working with a team of big data and data science experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.
- We are a fully virtual company, collaborating across 28 countries.
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