This onsite role in Boston, MA offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package within the VA Boston Healthcare System. The annual compensation ranges from USD 120,548 to 156,718, with benefits designed to support work-life balance, health and financial security.
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
The Natural Language Processing Data Scientist role focuses on information extraction from unstructured clinical text, NLP data curation, and building NLP pipelines to support research and healthcare decisions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and deployment of advanced information extraction and analysis within a healthcare setting, applying Python based NLP methods.
- Oversee creation and governance of validated NLP datasets using Label Studio, ensuring high data quality across the project lifecycle.
- Develop, maintain, and optimize end to end data and algorithm pipelines, following data science lifecycle best practices.
- Improve NLP and data science infrastructure by creating reusable code and resources for researchers, engineers, and clinicians.
- Collaborate with clinicians and data teams to guide research initiatives, offering expert NLP insights to meet complex clinical needs.
- Prioritize and manage multiple projects concurrently, monitoring progress and delivering milestones on schedule.
- Communicate findings through written reports, presentations, and manuscripts tailored to technical and non technical audiences.
- Stay current with developments in NLP, ML, and data science and apply best practices to raise the impact of research and analytics activities.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required and the candidate must clear a U.S. government background check.
- Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science or a directly related field; the major should be suitable for the position at the bachelor level or higher.
- Alternatively, a combination of education and experience can satisfy the requirement: courses totaling 30 semester hours in the major field plus additional relevant education or experience.
Technologies
- Python
- Label Studio
- SQL
- Git/Github
- GPT-OSS
- Llama
- Mixtral
Note
Reference OPM classification standards: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/data-science-series-1560/
How to apply
Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume or CV that clearly identifies employment dates, whether positions were full time or part time, and hours per week for all roles, along with transcripts. Include “NLP Data Scientist” in the subject line and email materials to Karlynn.Dulberger@va.gov. Please confirm U.S. citizenship in your cover letter.
