NLP Engineer / Data Scientist

Do you get excited about solving complex problems in NLP? Would you like to develop solutions for working with giant real-world data lakes to radically improve healthcare?

We need creative and versatile NLP engineers and data scientists to join our team. We’re looking for self-motivated individuals with a passion for clinical NLP who want to positively impact the lives of patients around the world.

Droice engineers are thought leaders in NLP research, applying it to vast repositories of real-world clinical text data. Our products leverage our unique proprietary technology to power critical decisions for patient care.

We’re seeking outstanding engineers to develop NLP products end-to-end using state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure. The technology you build will power products used by doctors every day to improve patient health and tackle the largest challenges in healthcare, including treatment decision support, clinical trial recruitment, population health management, and more.

About Droice

Droice harnesses the power of AI to unlock insights from massive amounts of real-world clinical data, empowering physicians to provide better care for their patients. Our proprietary Natural Language Understanding (NLU) engine analyzes and transforms clinical data from some of the world’s largest hospital systems, insurance and life science companies, and government bodies around the world, covering tens of millions of people.

Droice uses advanced machine learning methods to deliver unprecedented resolution in patient data to generate insights and action plans at an individual patient level, in real time.

How You'll Contribute

• Develop end-to-end NLP systems to derive insights from clinical text
• Build NLP models, ranging from statistical methods to state-of-the-art deep learning models with internal and external NLP datasets
• Evaluate and improve the quality of models and algorithms
• Collaborate with clinical, data science, and production teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Stay current with cutting edge research in NLP, with a focus on clinical data applications

What We're Looking For

• Strong background in natural language processing and machine learning
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic modeling, databases/data structures, and machine learning and statistical modeling
• Experience with noisy and/or unstructured textual data
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or Java and their data science ecosystems; ability to quickly translate ideas into code
• Strong command over linear algebra, statistics, and machine learning algorithms
• Understanding of text processing and feature extraction techniques, such as tokenization, POS tagging, and dependency parsing
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and organizational skills
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Bonus Points if You Have

• Research or industry experience in building machine learning and/or NLP systems
• Experience with large datasets (billions of data points)
• Experience with distributed systems/big data tools (e.g., Spark)
• Experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., Tensorflow)
• Peer-reviewed publications involving NLP or machine learning
• Experience in a healthcare related field, or with using clinical data
• Experience working with speech and/or text language data in multiple languages (bonus points for expertise in Russian, Finnish, German, Spanish, or French)