[Hiring] JAVA NLP Engineer @Texas State Library and Archives Commision

Role Description

As an NLP Engineer, you will extract, interpret, and synthesize an extremely diverse set of diagnostic lab data with the goal to standardize this data, making it machine readable, interoperable, and more discoverable and accessible. Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of NLP techniques and hands-on experience with Java.

• Designing and developing NLP applications for medical entity extraction and text mining
• Design Database to store NLP entities and relationships
• Using effective text representation techniques and classification algorithms
• Training and evaluating models
• Design end-to-end Java applications
• Find and implement the right algorithms and tools for NLP tasks
• Perform statistical analysis of results and refine models
• Extend ML libraries and frameworks to apply in NLP tasks
• Remain updated in the rapidly changing field of machine learning

Qualifications

• Clinical NLP experience (cTakes, UIMA)
• Strong Java development experience
• Deep understanding of health care domain
• Familiarity with Ontology tools and technologies
• Proven experience as an NLP Engineer or similar role/Track record in NLP/NLU and related technologies
• Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures and modeling
• Ability to effectively design software architecture
• Knowledge of Python, SQL
• Ability to write robust and testable code
• Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Keras, BERT or opennlp) and libraries (like scikit-learn)
• An analytical mind with problem-solving abilities