NLP Data Scientist

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, AWS, Azure, Data science techniques, Deep Learning, HuggingFace, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming, spaCy

Job Description

commercialization/business, or driving efficiency into our operations, we have a position for you. You will be encouraged to identify important business problems and to further your own research interests in these areas including presentations and publications at professional meetings. Come join us on our amazing journey to make life better!

Key responsibilities include:

• Apply NLP technologies to answer business questions, solve business challenges, and make real-world impact.
• Perform cutting edge research in natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
• Stay current with new technology trends in NLP and NLG.
• Define and own a roadmap of large-scale projects from inception to completion.
• Participate in strategic decision-making across the project.
• Mentor and lead other teammates and interns.
• Publish your work to top conferences.
• Evaluate and benchmark the performance of different NLP systems and provide guidance on metrics and best practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to deliver your technology.
• Work with teams and partners across the company providing data science support for multiple projects.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Strong technical knowledge of statistics, machine learning, and state-of-the-art deep learning for text and graphs literature.
• Proven experience with natural language processing, including textual data processing , training, and evaluating deep learning and large language models (Transformer based models, Bert, GPT, etc).
• Demonstrated ability in defining, leading, and executing challenging research projects.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, problem solving skills, programming (Python)
• Familiarity with various NLP toolkits like Langchain, LlamaIndex, Huggingface Transformers, Spacy, CoreNLP, OpenNLP etc.
• Experience using cloud services: AWS /Azure
• Proven ability to impact product with cutting edge research technology.
• Prior experience of building healthcare-related products will be a plus.

Basic Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Science, Information Engineering or related field
• 5+ years of experience working in NLP / Text analytics.

Additional Information:

• Make the impossible possible in your quest to make life better.
• Bring Analytics to life by giving it zeal and making it applicable to our business.
• Know, learn, and keep up to date on the analytical, computational and scientific advances to maximize your impact.
• Bring an insatiable desire to learn, to innovate, and to challenge yourself for the benefit of patients.

Lilly is a global health care leader that unites caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. For more than a century, we have stayed true to a core set of values—excellence, integrity, and respect for people—that guide us in all we do: discovering medicines that meet real needs, improving the understanding and management of disease, and giving back to communities. We also are committed to investing in our employees and supporting a culture of well-being —through competitive pay, comprehensive employee benefit programs, and training and development resources.

We’re doing extraordinary things. Join us and you could be, too!

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