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Black Canyon Consulting LLC · 3 months ago

NLP Scientist

Bethesda, Maryland

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is actively looking for an experienced Natural Language Processing (NLP) Scientist to support the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The role involves creating a genotype–phenotype database focused on influenza viruses by developing an NLP pipeline that includes named entity recognition, entity linking, and relationship extraction.

ConsultingInformation TechnologyProject Management

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement an NLP pipeline that includes named entity recognition, entity linking, and relationship extraction

Extract genotype–phenotype relations for influenza from literature and populate the database

Construct and maintain the genotype–phenotype database

Document the approach, the pipeline, and the database structure

Qualification

NLP methodsNamed entity recognitionEntity linkingRelationship extractionGenotype-phenotype databaseMedical field knowledgeHealth sciences knowledgeInfluenza domain knowledge

Required

Formal education with major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position

Experience with NLP methods, including named entity recognition, entity linking, and relationship extraction

Ability to develop an NLP pipeline and produce structured outputs from literature sources

Preferred

Domain knowledge about influenza or related areas

Company

Black Canyon Consulting LLC

Black Canyon Consulting, LLC (BCC) is a privately held, Woman-Owned Small Business, whose team of professionals bring over 125 years of experience providing innovative, tactical, and strategic Program and IT Management Support Services.

Founded in 2017

Fairfax, Virginia, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.bccdc.net

H1B Sponsorship

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Current Stage

Growth Stage

Leadership Team

Haley Esser

Chief Executive Officer

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