Senior Research Scientist
At 98point6, our mission is bringing technology and medicine together to reinvent primary healthcare. You’ll collaborate with multiple teams, work across disciplines, encountering and conquering many challenges that are new and exciting. Each day you’ll be working towards profoundly transforming primary care.
Your Role and Impact
As a senior research scientist, you will drive research and experimentation to help discover new ways to improve the healthcare experience for 98point6 patients and doctors. You will help shape our machine learning platform and drive awareness of data requirements, evaluation processes and implementation best practices.
Responsibilities
- Improve our natural language understanding systems by exploring the latest research, building experimental modeling and evaluation systems and as well as product feature demonstrations
- Apply a broad range of machine learning techniques to explore automation opportunities across our clinical operations
- Work with product managers and doctors to explore and clarify vague user needs and formulate testable hypotheses and experimentation plans
- If needed data isn’t available, design and manage data acquisition efforts such as crowdsourcing or web scraping
- Design and manage annotation tasks for generating labeled data
- Drive continual improvements in the integrity and performance of our machine learning software and infrastructure
Qualifications
- Master’s or Ph.D. degree in computer science, math or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in areas such as machine learning, data science or data engineering
- Significant experience with cutting-edge techniques in natural language processing, text classification and text summarization
- Highly proficient with Python. Familiarity with modules such as scikit-learn, keras, tensorflow, numpy, pandas, matplotlib and seaborn
- Highly proficient with relational databases and queries
- Highly proficient with statistical analysis and experimental design
- Ability to work with people from different teams to develop requirements and communicate experimentation outcomes
- Highly innovative, flexible and self-directed
- Passion for user experience
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, for example, the ability to adapt to audiences with varying levels of data science proficiency
98point6 provides equal employment opportunities to all without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or other protected status.