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Senior NLP Data Scientist & Data Engineer
Boston, MA

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Overview

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings together world renowned clinicians, innovative researchers and dedicated professionals, allies in the common mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Combining extremely talented people with the best technologies in a genuinely positive environment, we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all ages; we conduct research that advances treatment; we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers; we reach out to underserved members of our community; and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

The Bioinformatics and Data Science group at Dana Farber Cancer Institute is seeking intelligent, hard-working and dynamic individuals to join our expanding data science team. The Bioinformatics and Data Science group at DFCI encompasses expertise in data science, machine learning, bioinformatics and natural language processing (NLP). The successful candidate will have proven experience in leading and executing independent large complex projects, and some experience of supervision of junior staff.

This newly formed group serves some of the most prominent research and clinical programs at the Institute, from basic research to translational research, to clinical diagnostics and operations. As we widen our support of several crucial centers and programs at DFCI, we seek senior experts with the ability to lead projects independently and who can provide superior data science support for our key initiatives and centers in need of advanced analyses. The Bioinformatics and Data Science group seeks to develop a highly interdisciplinary environment to support the overall mission of the institute and contribute to maintaining superior cancer care to our pediatric and adult patient population.

As we widen our support of several crucial centers and programs at DFCI we seek senior experts with the ability to lead projects independently and potentially in the future lead other people who can provide data science support for some of our key initiatives and centers in need of advanced analyses.

Responsibilities

We seek an energetic and motivated Senior NLP Data Scientist and Data Engineer for our expanding data science team. The successful candidate will work on a project that will leverage clinical text from over 50,000+ patients and that has the objective of predicting which patients may be at-risk for debilitating physical symptoms or psychosocial stress and seamlessly create a personalized plan that treats both their disease and their physical and emotional health.

Key Responsibilities:

* Design and implement a variety of NLP-oriented data science and data engineering pipelines
* Meeting and consulting medical doctors and researchers as required to support plans and solutions
* Regularly produce reports on project updates for project stakeholders and for other team members
* Contribute to the positive, inspiring, and result-oriented team environment
* Deep data science and data engineering skills, at the interface of computer science and statistics

Qualifications

* PhD or equivalent experience with evidence of impact in data science applied to real life problems in a research setting ideally within a clinical research environment
* 2 to 5 years of experience post PhD
* Natural language processing experience required
* Data engineering experience required
* Excellent communication and effective problem-solving skills, track record in serving a variety of diverse customers and projects
* Ability to work independently, prioritize, and manage students/interns if needed, within an interdisciplinary environment that includes physicians, scientists, engineers, and patient advocates.
* Google Cloud Platform: experience preferred
* Experienced in data science methodologies and techniques, e.g. hypothesis testing, classification, regression, clustering, feature allocation, deep learning, time-series analysis, network modeling, feature selection/engineering.
* Version control for analyses and big unstructured data: experience preferred
* Significant scientific background with prior experience in clinical research preferred
* Prior experience supervising at least 1 person preferred

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, ancestry, military service, protected veteran status, or other groups as protected by law.

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