Job Description :
Work Location: Woodlawn, MD
Special Requirements
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, H1-B Visa
Clearance Required: Public Trust Clearance (required prior start)
Role Title
NLP Developer
Duration
Long term contract
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
Required experience:
Masters +2 years of experience
6 years'' relevant work experience
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Excellent time management
Ability to contribute to a high-performing, motivated workgroup by
applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve project goals
Ability to contribute to the creation of an environment that
motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team
Provide technical guidance in the fields of NLP, Machine
Learning, Statistical Methods
Formulate and rapidly prototype various approaches as well as
effectively communicate the pros and cons of each.
Provide data-driven approaches to tackle various business and NLP
problems
Skills:
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
Chunking/Tokenization
Semantic parsing
Requires proficiency in:
Java
Python
At least one NLP Libraries(StanfordNLP, NLTK, etc
At least one Machine Learning library (TensorFlow, DL4J, Theano,
Scikit-Learn, Torch, Caffe, etc
Regular Expressions
SQL (PostgreSQL)
No-SQL (MongoDB)
Version control systems (Git)
The following skills are not required but are highly desired:
Experience with NLP technologies
Experience with machine learning
Java coding capabilities with experience in J2EE framework such as
Core Java, Spring, EJB, JDBC, JMS, Struts
Experience with Health IT and an understanding of Health IT
Standards (HL7 v2.x, HL7 v3, ASTM, X12N, HITSP component specifications,
Clinical Document Architecture, Continuity of Care Record and the Health
Story implementation guides)
J2EE technologies such as JSP and servlets (i.e. JAVA/WebSphere
and RAD)
OOD/OOP foundation with experience in UML
Web Service technologies such as SOAP, WSDL, WS-Security, MTOM,
SWA
Relational Databases such as DB2, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, JDBC
NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and HBase
Hadoop, Spark, HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, Scala
XML processing experience such as XSD, XPath, XSL, XSLT, etc.
ebXML
IBM MQ Series
Experience validating or adhering to Health Information Technology
Standards Panel (HITSP) Standards
Demonstrated knowledge of Clinical Terminology, Vocabulary, and
Standards
Experience with Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
Standards (PIX, PDQ, XDS.b, XDR)
Demonstrated knowledge of/experience with Web Service Security
(WS-Security, WS-Addressing, SAML, XACML)
Health Information Technologies such as HL7, ICD9, SNOMED
Experience using CTAKEs, UIMA, UMLS, SPARQL
Statistical Machine Translation
Education Level
Bachelor''s degree + 6 years'' experience