Principal NLP Research Engineer - Healthcare
Company: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Location: Burlington, MA
Posted on: October 6, 2017
Job Description:
Duties: Design, experiment and evaluate highly innovative models
for clinical natural language understanding. Research latest
modeling techniques. Understand trade-offs between competing approaches,
and identify the ones that are likely to have real impact on
customers. Create statistical machine learning systems using
in-production (feedback) data. Research and apply machine learning techniques
for clinical language understanding healthcare products. Utilize
JAVA, Python, and PERL to develop CLU systems that are scalable,
and efficient. Establish efficient and automated processes for large
scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. Present and discuss ideas and results with
fellow researchers and management within and beyond the team. Work
closely with software engineering teams to support implementations of the
models. Work closely with product management to optimize product
customer experience. Requirements: Master's degree (or foreign education equivalent)
in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Electrical
Engineering, Information Systems or related field plus three (3) years of
experience performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) research or,
alternatively, a Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience as noted
above. Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): applying machine
learning algorithms, including maximum entropy, support vector machines
and deep learning, to large, unstructured data sets; DE performing
software development using Java, Python, or PERL to develop rule based
and machine learning systems; DE analyzing statistical patterns in
data and performing error analysis and debugging; and using clinical
ontologies or knowledge bases, such as MeSH or SNORMED CT. To apply, submit resume referencing Job Code # 34590 to Jason
Hewitt, Nuance Communications, 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, MA 01803.
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