Senior Data Scientist - NLP & Generative AI (AI Engineering)

TL;DR

Senior Data Scientist - NLP & Generative AI (AI Engineering): Designing, implementing, and evaluating advanced natural language understanding (NLU) systems that interpret complex clinical text and support data-driven medical decision-making with an accent on transformers, generative AI, and research-oriented neural architectures. Focus on optimizing training pipelines, exploring new modeling approaches, and contributing to the long-term direction of hirify.global’s deep learning portfolio.

Location: Remote (United States)

Salary: $106,000 - $145,750

Company

hirify.global is a healthcare company creating breakthrough solutions at the intersection of health, material, and data science to improve lives.

What you will do

• Scope and design NLP/NLU applications that support clinical understanding of medical documents and downstream healthcare workflows.
• Translate business and clinical requirements into mathematical and experimental criteria, ensuring models are measurable, reliable, and auditable.
• Process, align, and enrich diverse structured and unstructured medical datasets for deep learning, LLMs, and agentic AI systems.
• Develop and evaluate deep learning models, including transformer-based architectures and neural architectures for capturing linguistic patterns in clinical text.
• Deploy models into hirify.global’s cloud environment, partnering with ML engineering to ensure reliability, observability, and compliance within regulated healthcare systems.
• Stay current with emerging research in NLP/LLMs, evaluating new methods and identifying opportunities to advance hirify.global’s deep learning initiatives.

Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in computer science, mathematics, or related fields or Bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of IT experience
• Solid experience in Python especially in deep learning for text analysis and libraries such as PyTorch and Transformers
• Solid grasp of statistics and exploratory data analysis
• US citizenship or permanent resident required

Nice to have

• Experience conducting research-driven NLP/NLU work involving representation learning, attention mechanisms, or hybrid neural architectures.
• Familiarity with AWS, GitHub, CI/CD, and scalable ML deployment practices.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, prompting, fine-tuning, or agentic AI frameworks.
• Experience with ETL of large-scale text using tools such as PySpark, Spark NLP, or distributed data frameworks.
• Exposure to clinical coding systems or medical terminologies (e.g., ICD, CPT, SNOMED) is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially.
• Opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the hirify.global new employee orientation.
• Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy for on-site onboarding.