Position: Senior NLP engineer
Company: Svitla
Experience required: 5y
Category: Data Science
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior NLP Engineer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in Ukraine. Our client is a Delaware-based C-Corporation with headquarters in Columbia, SC, USA. The company has 3 products in the healthcare space that focus on automation of the healthcare industry and specifically Healthcare Revenue Cycle. This automation journey starts with automation of medical coding focusing on anesthesia procedures, but will rapidly expand broader. We are looking for a Natural Language Processing Engineer to help us improve our NLP products and create new NLP applications. NLP Engineer responsibilities include transforming natural language data into useful features using NLP techniques to feed classification algorithms. To succeed in this role, you should possess outstanding skills in statistical analysis, machine learning methods, and text representation techniques. Your ultimate goal is to develop efficient self-learning NLP applications.
Requirements:
5+ years of relevant work experience;
Experience with architecting and running the project;
Proven experience as an NLP Engineer and specifically BERT, Tensorflow, Word2Vec Semantic and/or Knowledge Graphs, etc.;
Experience with AWS, Python, Docker Containers.;
Experience with medical coding (predictions of the insurance medical codes out of medical records;)
Understanding of NLP techniques for text representation, semantic extraction techniques, data structures, and modeling;
Deep understanding of text representation techniques (such as n-grams, bag of words, sentiment analysis etc), statistics and classification algorithms;
Ability to write robust and testable code;
Experience with machine learning frameworks (like Keras or PyTorch) and libraries ;
Strong communication skills;
High English level;
An analytical mind with problem-solving abilities.
Responsibilities:
Study and transform data science prototypes;
Design NLP applications;
Use effective text representations to transform natural language into useful features;
Find and implement the right algorithms and tools for NLP tasks;
Develop NLP systems according to requirements;
Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments;
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,
Will be a plus:
Experience with medical coding predictions of the insurance medical codes out of medical records
We Offer:
Competitive compensation plan that takes skills and experience into consideration.
Annual performance appraisals.
Possibility to choose your workspace either remote or combination of your home and one of our development offices. 
Projects that use advanced, cutting-edge technologies.
Competitive bonuses for a personal recommendation of new employees.
Vacation time, sick-leaves, national holidays, family supplementary days off.
Comprehensive medical insurance including dental services, massages.
Support for a healthy lifestyle, compensation of sports events.
Maternity leave policy.
A personal loan budget is available for long-term personnel.
Partial compensation of conferences, courses, and English classes.
Free meetups, webinars, and conferences organized by Svitla.
Birthday and New Year presents for personnel, gifts for children.
Fun summer and winter corporate parties and memorable anniversary presents.
About Svitla:
Svitla Systems is a multinational software development company headquartered in Silicon Valley, with business and development offices throughout the US, Mexico, and Europe (Ukraine, Poland, Western Europe). Svitla is an outspoken advocate of workplace flexibility, best known for its well-established remote culture, individual approach to our teammate’s professional and personal growth, and family-like environment.

Since 2003, Svitla has served a wide range of clients, from innovative start-ups in California to mega-large corporations such as Ingenico, AstraZeneca, and Ancestry. At Svitla, developers work with clients’ teams directly, building lasting and successful partnerships, as a result of seamless integration with on-site processes. 

Svitla Systems’ global mission is to build a business that contributes to the well-being of our partners, personnel and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Join us!

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