Sr. NLP Java Engineer Opening

[Christian Reilly <cr...@mednition.com>]

I hope this is appropriate for this forum.

Our company is looking for an experienced ctakes java developer.
Interested parties can email me at creilly@mednition.com

Here is the job description:

NLP Engineer – Real-time Clinical Decision Support

MedNition Inc. is building a cutting edge Decision Support infrastructure
for Doctors and Nurses to improve patient safety and help drive down costs
for healthcare delivery.  The ability to parse and understand raw medical
records and translate this information into features for our machine
learning algorithms is paramount to our goals and objectives.  We are
seeking an NLP engineer to support our growth, further our platform, and
build our organization capabilities.

General Skills
* Independent thinker
* Strong ability to interpret strategy goals into actionable technical
projects
* Research mindset – given our objectives are pushing the boundaries of
technical capabilities, the candidate should be comfortable with working on
the edge of research and be comfortable with self directed research of
potential solutions to complex problems and designing and proposing
solutions to the team that have “yet to be solved”
* Quality Focused – Build solution which can be statistically validated by
clinical experts
* Team Focused – thrive on working in team environment to deliver results
that are embraced by diverse teams with deep domain expertise (eg. PhD’s)

Technical Skills
* MS Computer Science
* Strong background in Enterprise Java, SQL
* Core knowledge of natural language processing techniques and familiarity
with open source tools for text processing.
* Experience with information retrieval and mapping of raw text to semantic
ontologies (normalized name spaces)
* Large Scale processing of datasets for further analysis for Business
Intelligence or Machine Learning
* Multi-threaded design and scalability
* Experience in medical text processing and/or medical information
extraction/retrieval
* Understanding of machine learning and deep learning concepts, experience
in using deep learning tools
* Knowledge of Python
* NoSQL databases experience
* CTakes, StanfordNLP



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*Christian Reilly*
Co-founder
Mednition Inc.