Datavant · 3 days ago
Data Scientist, NLP
Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. They are seeking a motivated Data Scientist to help revolutionize the healthcare industry with AI, focusing on deep medical document understanding and developing models to extract meaning from unstructured medical records.
Responsibilities
Play a key role in the success of our products by developing models for document understanding tasks
Perform error analysis, data cleaning, and other related tasks to improve models
Collaborate with your team by making recommendations for the development roadmap of a capability
Work with other data scientists and engineers to optimize machine learning models and insert them into end-to-end pipelines
Understand product use-cases and define key performance metrics for models according to business requirements
Set up systems for long-term improvement of models and data quality (e.g. active learning, continuous learning systems, etc.)
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience with data science and machine learning in an industry setting, particularly in designing and building NLP models
Proficiency with Python
Experience with the latest in language models (transformers, LLMs, etc.)
Proficiency with standard data analysis toolkits such as SQL, Numpy, Pandas, etc
Proficiency with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch (preferred) or TensorFlow
Industry experience shepherding ML/AI projects from ideation to delivery
Demonstrated ability to influence company KPIs with AI
Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity
Preferred
Experience with document layout analysis (using vision, NLP, or both)
Experience with Spark/PySpark
Experience with Databricks
Experience in the healthcare industry
Company
Datavant
Datavant protects, connects, and delivers the world’s health data to power better decisions and advance human health.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$80.5MKey Investors
Transformation Capital
2020-10-08Series B· $40M
2018-04-30Series Unknown· $40.5M
Leadership Team
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