NLP / LLM Data Scientist
Dandelion Health · Remote
Our Team
Dandelion Health unlocks a layer of unexplored clinical depth that has been previously inaccessible at scale. By combining all the raw multimodal data from community health systems with validated AI models, we deliver regulatory-grade scientific insights and products that give teams the evidence to design better trials, enroll the right patients, and generate AI-powered insights that drive confident decisions across the development and commercial lifecycle.
Your Role
You are a healthcare data scientist who knows your way around clinical and text-based data. Your primary responsibility will be to leverage and build upon large language models (LLM) and other ML-based approaches for meaningful data abstraction from both unstructured and structured healthcare data. You will join a team of data scientists who own the creation and maintenance of AI-ready datasets for clients in our environment.
You will work across the organization to curate datasets by identifying patient subpopulations or disease cohorts, developing methodology to abstract information from multimodal healthcare data sources to support patient phenotyping, and pooling data to enable rapid exploratory AI/ML analyses, model experimentation and/or model validation. You will use your data expertise, programming abilities, and critical thinking skills to support our technical product team, and develop your own analyses to derive insights and enhance our datasets based on the use case.
Your team
’s ultimate goal is to deliver the highest-quality data possible to our clients, who are building products that improve patient health. You will report to the Data Science Manager, under the Head of Data.
Responsibilities
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include the following:
Develop Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM) and other ML-based pipelines to abstract relevant labels from text-based healthcare data and store them in scalable data models;
Query complex source systems in a range of health data sources (e.g., EMRs, semi-structured reports, free-text clinical provider notes) to identify key data elements and create and enrich high-quality datasets for real-world evidence analyses and training AI algorithms;
Own data extraction, wrangling, labeling and QC tasks to create analytical datasets that include abstracted clinical concepts and provide a range of solutions to support customers’ AI activities;
Stay current on the latest in applied NLP and generative AI methods and proactively leverage these technologies where applicable;
Support the design, testing, validation, analysis, and merging of multimodal data structures from a wide variety of source systems;
Develop code and documentation to deliver high-quality and HIPAA-compliant data products on time to customers;
Identify and resolve problems using your knowledge, background, and troubleshooting skills;
Ensure accuracy, data integrity, and validity of data and analysis in all work;
Provide support for technical product team to advance development of the suite of data-related product offerings;
Summarize the complexity of abstraction methods, findings and recommendations into clear explanations and presentations for internal and external audiences that have a varying range of technical and clinical experience;
You are not afraid to dig into massive, confusing, disorganized new datasets and get them under control. You are excited to learn new environments, languages, and skills. This is a small, early stage company with enormous ambitions and everyone pitches in across the team.
Qualifications
Advanced degree in a quantitative field (ex. Data Science, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Biostatistics), or B.S. with at least 5 years of professional experience
At least 2 years of data science and machine learning experience, including building pipelines to extract and curate unstructured and semi-structured data by applying advanced machine learning and AI techniques. Prior experience with clinical and healthcare data is a strong bonus.
Fluency in Python and SQL, including fluency with ML/NLP libraries (PyTorch, Tensorflow, HuggingFace, etc.)
Familiarity with using modern applied LLM techniques on real-world data
Strong technical writing, editing, and communication skills, along with a collaborative mindset
Excellent organizational skills with an ability to embrace change and effectively manage multiple projects and consistently plan work to meet deadlines
Experience working in or with startups is a plus
Technical Experiences and Skills
We don’t expect anyone to have all of the following skills or experiences, but we do seek candidates who are interested in growing their skill sets and working with healthcare data in all its glorious complexity. The Data Team works closely with our Engineering Team to put our work into production and meet client needs.
Git and version control
Familiarity with encryption methods
Prior experience querying EDWs or databases and creating reports or analytics for healthcare data
Familiarity with the data aspects of electronic medical records, ex. Epic, Cerner, Allscripts
Any medical ontology experience
Any experience working with DICOM or other imaging modalities
Experience with AWS
Experience with publishing work in peer-reviewed journals
Nature of our work
Our work is fast paced and iterative. We are growing, and we want to support our team members to grow in their skills as well. We are building a team that approaches problems with a diversity of perspectives, values experimentation, and refining our approach based on that experimentation. We work with the full spectrum of healthcare data from tabular data, videos, images, waveforms, etc. If a health system collects it, we might work with it!
If this looks like a partial fit, please reach out, we would love to share more about the work we do for you to understand if it would be a good fit for you.
There is occasional travel for in-person company working days on roughly a quarterly basis.
Team Benefits
Remote work and flexible hours. Availability needed for meetings, which we try to keep to a healthy minimum
Complete wellness benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, PTO, sick days and more. Ask for details
Professional development days to build your skills
Collegial work environment
Academic bent towards inquiry and problem solving but start-up speed and flexibility
Great balance of focus time to work on projects but easy to access team members to discuss issues and work collaboratively
Dandelion is a mission-driven company that is focused on improving patient care