Healthcare Data Science Engineer

Senior Healthcare Data Scientist Engineer

Location: Baltimore, MD or Remote

Client: IT Solutions Consulting, Healthcare in Gov

Duration: LTC

Overview: Senior Healthcare Data Scientist/Engineer needed to join efforts in accurately and efficiently improving Disability and Supplemental Benefits requests.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical guidance in the fields of NLP, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods
• Provide data-driven approaches to tackle various business and NLP problems
• Client interfacing
• Create special AI models for processing medical texts
• Maintain existing models in predictions and also detecting errors

Requirements:

Requires proficiency in:

• Python (required)
• Regular Expressions
• Version control systems (Git)
• Experience with ML frameworks: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Transformers, Scikit-learn XGBoost, LSTM, Keras, Pandas, BERT, CNN, RNN, SVMs, k-Nearest Neighbors, Linear/Logistic Regression and Classification, Ensemble Methods, Graphical Models, Clustering, Tesseract
• Information Extraction
• Statistical model building (particularly classification)
• Ability to draw insights from sparsely labeled textual data.
• Ability to leverage domain knowledge as well as ontologies to improve model performance
• Strong understanding of statistical modeling and experimental design including:
• When to value precision vs recall
• Bias/variance tradeoffs
• Handling sampling issues
• Ability to improve performance on noisy data (both textual and numeric)
• Knowledge of and experience using various NLP approaches, particularly:
• Pattern recognition/feature extraction
• Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-Supervised learning techniques
• Understanding of various language models (N-Gram, Skipgram, NLM, etc.)
• Practical experience leveraging open source libraries for emerging DNN approaches to NLP (transformers, BERT, RoBERTA, etc.)
• Chunking/Tokenization
• Semantic parsing

Required Skills: Data Science Experience Healthcare Data Science Experience Python AI experience artificial intelligence experience Machine Learning Client Facing AI models for processing medical texts (Bert, Roberta, GPT3..