Senior NLP Data Science Researcher (PhD Required, US-based only)

John Snow Labs is an award-winning AI and NLP company, accelerating progress in data science by providing state-of-the-art software, data, and models. Founded in 2015, it helps healthcare and life science companies build, deploy, and operate AI products and services. John Snow Labs is the winner of the 2018 AI Solution Provider of the Year Award, the 2019 AI Platform of the Year Award, the 2019 International Data Science Foundation Technology award, and the 2020 AI Excellence Award.
John Snow Labs is the developer of Spark NLP - the world’s most widely used NLP library in the enterprise - and is the world’s leading provider of state-of-the-art clinical NLP software, powering some of the world’s largest healthcare & pharma companies. John Snow Labs is a global team of specialists, of which 20% hold a Ph.D. or M.D. and 53% hold at least a Master’s degree in disciplines covering data science, medicine, software engineering, pharmacy, DevOps and SecOps.

About the Role: Join our team as a Senior NLP Data Science Researcher, where you'll apply advanced Generative AI, LLM, and NLP methods in novel Healthcare projects. This customer-facing role demands a blend of excellent technical prowess, research expertise, and communication skills, with a focus on training and optimizing NLP/LLM models, creating robust Python-based inference pipelines, and conducting thorough data analysis and model validation.

Key Qualifications:
- PhD Degree: Must possess a PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Medicine, Life Sciences, or a related field. A strong academic publishing track record is preferred.
- NLP & LLM Expertise: Demonstrable hands-on development experience in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (LLM).
- Software Engineering: Proven experience in coding, software design, and data science is essential. Substantial hands-on expertise with the Python ecosystem of AI libraries is required.
- Data Analysis Acumen: Skilled in exploratory data analysis, data preparation for ML/AI, and statistical evaluation of ML models.
- Communication: Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including in customer facing interactions.
- Research and Publication Skills: Proven ability to take the lead in writing scientific publications. Must have publications from LLM & NLP.
- US Residency: Must be a resident of the United States.

Desirable Skills:
- Production-Grade ML Pipeline Development: Experience in building and managing production-level text processing pipelines, MLOps and LLMOps workflows and tools.
- Technology Proficiency: Familiarity with PyTorch, Spark, Databricks, LangChain, Spark NLP, cloud API’s (AWS, Azure, etc.), and development tools (GitHub, MLFlow, Docker, etc.) is a plus.
- Healthcare Background: A background in medicine, pharma, bioinformatics, or biostatistics is highly advantageous.

The Opportunity: We offer long-term freelance contracts for professionals eager to tackle cutting-edge problems, learn and build your career as part of a world-class team. This role requires a minimum commitment of 30 hours per week and is open to individual applicants only (no agencies or teams, please). 100% remote position.

What We Offer:
- Career Growth: This is a career-defining opportunity that promises to expand your skill set and experience with various tools and techniques.
- Collaborative Environment: Work within a team of clinical and data science experts to make a significant impact.
- State of the Art Technology: Contribute to advancing the state of the art of Healthcare AI, including contributions to open-source projects and peer-reviewed papers.
- Learning and Culture: Opportunities for professional development through knowledge exchange within a global AI community.

Application Process: Qualified and interested candidates should apply by submitting a resume, a list of peer-reviewed publications, and public examples of software code or past projects.

What John Snow Labs offers:

The Opportunity: We offer long-term freelance contracts for professionals eager to tackle cutting-edge problems, learn and build your career as part of a world-class team. This role requires a minimum commitment of 30 hours per week and is open to individual applicants only (no agencies or teams, please). 100% remote position.

What We Offer:
- Career Growth: This is a career-defining opportunity that promises to expand your skill set and experience with various tools and techniques.
- Collaborative Environment: Work within a team of clinical and data science experts to make a significant impact.
- State of the Art Technology: Contribute to advancing the state of the art of Healthcare AI, including contributions to open-source projects and peer-reviewed papers.
- Learning and Culture: Opportunities for professional development through knowledge exchange within a global AI community.

Application Process: Qualified and interested candidates should apply by submitting a resume, a list of peer-reviewed publications, and public examples of software code or past projects.