Clinical Terminologist

Location: Chicago

Salary: $67,000–$95,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global builds an AI-powered precision medicine platform and infrastructure that connects real-world healthcare evidence to clinical insights, with a focus on modernizing cancer treatment.

What you will do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage and update terminology services used across the company.
• Maintain and extend modeled ontology solutions.
• Standardize clinical concepts from Tempus-curated data, EHR integrations, and laboratory systems.
• Manage adjudication and quality-control pipelines for new clinical concepts and domains.
• Monitor quality assurance and process improvement initiatives.
• Monitor production process performance and recommend improvements.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience working with standard medical terminologies, including ICD-CM-9/10, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC, or CPT.
• Working knowledge of UMLS and familiarity with NCIm.
• Experience developing and maintaining clinical ontologic models.
• Experience working with real-world data from EHRs, laboratory systems, claims, and abstraction or curation.
• Experience working with ELT tools to maintain high-volume, high-velocity data-throughput pipelines.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, and Semantic Web technologies including RDF, OWL, and SPARQL.
• Awareness of healthcare information standards such as HL7 and FHIR for data exchange and interoperability.

Nice to have

• Clinical background such as PA, NP, or RN.
• Experience analyzing real-world data with Python or SQL.
• Participation in professional organizations such as OHDSI or AMIA.
• Awareness of the OMOP Common Data Model.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in Chicago.
• Benefits may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical benefits, and other benefits depending on the position.