Sr. Data Scientist - Natural Language Processing
Northridge, CA

Job Description

Careers that Change Lives

It thrills you to discover new things from uninformative raw data. Be part of a Data team focused on transforming how chronic disease is managed through application of modern data science & engineering application solutions, catering to both your engineering mentality and desire to make a difference in world. With access to large amounts of related data, you will help create data solutions that simplify chronic disease care and improve clinical outcomes.

Medtronic Diabetes is focused on transforming diabetes care for better freedom and great health, serving patients across the continuum of diabetes. Our goal is to become a holistic diabetes management company focused on making a real difference in outcomes and cost. We want to transform healthcare toward value-based models by driving both product and business model innovation with the goal of elevating patient experience, improving clinical outcomes and lowering the total cost of care for our customers. Data driven applications and you would be central to making this happen

A Day in the Life

* Identify novel ways to apply NLP and NLU technology and help drive our data science roadmap.
* Create ontology and entity database to enable advanced information inquiry.
* Apply machine learning and advanced statistical methods to improve NLP and NLU technology from vast amounts of medical related conversation.
* Design, implement, test and deploy state-of-the-art NLP, NLU in a production environment.
* Work closely with the engineering team to operationalize infrastructure for NLP, NLU algorithms.
* Access the performance and analyze the risk of designed NLP, NLU algorithms.
* Keep up-to-date with the latest techniques and approaches in machine learning and statistical analysis.
* Ability to communicate analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
* Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
* In new product design roles: develops and programs integrated software algorithms to structure, analyze and leverage data in product and systems applications in both structured and unstructured environments.
* Develops and communicates descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights/algorithms.
* In product/systems improvement projects: uses machine language and statistical modeling techniques such as decision trees, logistic regression, Bayesian analysis and others to develop and evaluate algorithms to improve product/system performance, quality, data management and accuracy.
* In both theoretical development environments and specific product design, implementation and improvement environments, uses current programming language and technologies to translate algorithms and technical specifications into code.
* Completes programming and implements efficiencies, performs testing and debugging.
* Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
* Applies deep learning technologies to give computers the capability to visualize, learn and respond to complex situations.
* Adapts machine learning to areas such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics and other products that allow users to have an interactive experience.
* Can work with large scale computing frameworks, data analysis systems and modeling environments.

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

* Bachelor's with 4+ years of experience, Master's with 2+ years of experience or a Ph.D. with 0+ years of experience. Degree must be in Statistics, Math, Computer Science or similar field.
* Experience in Python, R or similar data-science scripting language
* Experience with statistical modelling
* Experience in using SQL for advanced data analysis and visualization

Nice to Have

* Strong track record in building NLP, NLU models using real-world large datasets, that work in production with positive outcomes
* Prior experience with Spark and the AWS stack
* Experience with Tensorflow, MXNet or Keras framework
* Proficient in relational database management systems with knowledge of non-relational database systems
* Background in healthcare & diabetes physiology
* Understanding of FDA regulations including (ISO) 13485

About Medtronic

Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.

We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let's work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients' lives. Help us shape the future.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)