Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist (with experience in NLP in Healthcare) - Remote with preference to Denver

Seeking to hire a Senior Data Scientist with experience in NLP and predictive modeling in the Healthcare domain. You will be a part of a small team, building Natural Language Processing / Understanding and Machine Learning models.

Key Responsibilities
Perform exploratory data analysis
Create datasets for annotation, design annotation schemas, process annotated data into datasets for model training and evaluation
Select appropriate modeling techniques
Implement production-ready model code in Python
Maintain and improve model code
Mentor junior team members

Skills and Qualifications
Graduate degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning or other quantitative field
Experience developing and validation NLP models in a clinical domain
Deep understanding of NLP fundamental concepts and models, such as language modeling, word embeddings, topic modeling, text categorization, information extraction, natural language understanding, transfer learning
Deep understanding and experience in applying ML algorithms, such as Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, SVM, Naive Bayes, kNN, Random Forests, Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms, K-means clustering, etc.
Experience performing training/testing/validation dataset construction
Expertise in Python and SQL
Working knowledge of Unix commands and good security practices
Solid knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms, including algorithm complexity
Experience with visualization libraries such as Matplotlib, ggplot, etc.
Familiarity with knowledge representation, automated knowledge acquisition and reasoning is a huge plus
Familiarity with radiology reports is a huge plus
Basic understanding of Anatomy

Key skills:
spaCy, NLP, NLU, Information Extraction, Prodigy, Python, Tensorflow, Keras, Transformer, Healthcare, Clinical Data, EHR, Radiology, Machine Learning, SQL, Unix Shell

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