Data Scientist

Lexical Intelligence provides software and services related to processing large-scale biomedical information sources. Our NLP and analytics software is used by policy and decision makers to evaluate and prioritize current and emerging areas of research.

We are looking for a data scientist to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. The data scientist will have extensive experience in NLP and applying statistical methods and techniques, statistical significance and hypothesis testing, analysis of corpora utilizing advanced statistical modeling techniques including machine learning, standard linear models, or random forests. The data scientist will have a firm understanding of the nuances involved in unbalanced training sets, test/train/validation splits, gold standards, significance testing, and hyperparameter optimization. The data scientist shall be able to work well within a team of analysts, data scientists, and software developers. Applicants selected will be subject to a pre-employment background and reference check.

Full COVID-19 vaccination is required for this position. Accommodations will be considered when reasonable.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• MS or other degree(s) in biotechnology, computer science or related fields
• Extensive experience in NLP
• Highly proficient in Python
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust Clearance
• US work authorization (we participate in E-Verify)

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience using NIH Biowulf and/or Jupyter Notebooks
• Ability to perform batch programming
• Experience utilizing computational language processing including rule based models (context-free grammars), embedding models (word2vec), and document level summarization
• Experience in network and graph theory expertise including spectral clustering and node2vec 
• Knowledge of deep learning models using machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• Experience using neural network architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and generative adversarial models among other techniques and approaches
• Experience with data extraction from unstructured sources, integrating data from multiple databases, cleaning, and normalizing for downstream data analysis
• Independent worker with strong analytical skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills

Salary and benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including full health and dental, HSA and retirement accounts, short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, paid time off and 11 federal holidays.

Location: Bethesda, MD

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