29.2471, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Data Scientist, nThrive

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-2471. Fri Jun 08 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.2471, Jobs:  Computational Linguistics: Senior Data Scientist, nThrive

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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:47:39
From: Stephanie Stowe [sstowe at nthrive.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior Data Scientist, nThrive, USA

 
University or Organization: nThrive 
Department: Solutions
Job Location: , USA (Telecommute)
Web Address: https://www.nthrive.com/
Job Title: Senior Data Scientist
Job Rank: Senior Data Scientist

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Overview:
As a Senior Data Scientist in the Solutions Organization, you will responsible
for developing and maintaining custom Data Science solutions using Machine
Learning and Natural Language Processing.  As a Senior colleague, you will be
responsible for making key technology decisions about our industry-leading
Patient-to-Payment software solutions. Your applied research and development
responsibilities will include assuring scalable designs, optimizing the
software solutions you create, and mentoring your colleagues.

Responsibilities:
- Work with development team and Product Management to understand product
requirements and support customer needs.
- Develop new features; enhance existing functionality in current Data Science
solutions.
- Communicate and coordinate development activities with management and
colleagues to ensure timely product delivery.
- Exhibit consistent ownership of the products to which you are assigned.
- Seek development opportunities above and beyond required training.
- Maintain a broad knowledge of emergent trends in relevant Data Science, AI,
and Software Development.
- Ensure quality through unit testing, code review, and performance metrics.
- Provide production support in conjunction with the support organization to
resolve production issues.
- Share what you know with other colleagues while learning from them. Provide
mentoring and technical guidance to junior members to assure the team is
successful.
- Travel occasionally to meet with management, colleagues, clients, or 3rd
party vendors.
- Protect the integrity and confidentiality of all personal health data and
proprietary information.
- Observe all Policies and Procedures.

Requirements:
- Master's degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning,
Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent
discipline
- 5+ years of experience delivering software solutions solving real business
problems with Data Science, Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing
- Experience building and optimizing classification and/or regression Machine
Learning models using various approaches such as LR, SVM, KNN, Neural Nets,
MLPs, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, or Decision Trees
- Experience with at least two languages from Python, Java, Scala, C#, C++,
Ruby, Perl, or similar
- Experience developing software in an Agile environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills coupled to strong oral and written
communications
- Excellent time management and self-motivation skills

Preferred Skills:
- Ph. D in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Data
Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or equivalent
discipline 
- Mastery of a tool or framework such as Spark, DASK, Mahout, Hadoop, Azure,
Theano, Torch, or TensorFlow
- Experience using scalable distributed implementations using one or more
frameworks such as Spark, DASK, Mahout, Hadoop, Azure, Theano, Torch, or
TensorFlow
- Experience with cloud-based solutions
- Experience with Regular Expressions
- Experience with text information extraction, grammars, semantics, and
morphology
- Experience with parsers, tokenizers, and other text based linguistic tools
- Spoken and/or written fluency with one modern or ancient language in
addition to your native language
- Experience with structured and unstructured data
- Creativity in compensating for incomplete or sparse data
- Experience managing and utilizing curated corpora & ontologies
- Familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD) practices
- Experience in Healthcare Information Technology

To apply, please see the Application Link below.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://bit.ly/2JsyEOz 
Contact Information:
	Talent Coordinator Stephanie Stowe 
	Email: sstowe at nthrive.com 
	Phone: 678-248-8387 


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