Senior NLP Engineer (USA Remote)

Are you a Senior NLP Engineer with in-depth expertise in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, programming, and a strong understanding of fundamental NLP concepts? RYTE, a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence health tech company is looking for Senior NLP Engineers who will contribute to pushing the boundaries of RYTE’s natural language processing capabilities and driving innovation within the company’s linguistic technology initiatives.

About RYTE

Finding the right physician, selecting the organization providing the most suitable service, and obtaining the most relevant health information, whether in the US or globally, can be complex and filled with uncertainty. Enter RYTE: an AI-driven platform designed to simplify this process. By analyzing data from millions of healthcare providers, experts, medical procedures, clinical outcomes, and a variety of other data points, RYTE offers users a comprehensive view of their options, uniquely tailored to their needs. It offers:

1. Personalized Recommendations: Based on your specific situation, RYTE's platform presents the best healthcare options for you, no matter where you are in the world.
2. Unprecedented Insights: With billions of data points on countless medical professionals and facilities, its AI-driven software gives rankings and insights with metrics previously unavailable for decision-making.
3. Versatile Applications: Launching for individuals seeking specialized care (B2C), with plans for the Pharmaceutical, Medtech, Health Insurance (B2B) and Doctor (B2D) markets, the RYTE platform caters to diverse needs.

Behind RYTE is a dedicated team of top physicians, healthcare executives, data scientists, and AI specialists who have been hard at work since 2019. Their mission? To empower everyone, everywhere, with the data-driven insights required to make well-informed healthcare decisions.

Senior NLP Engineer (USA Remote - Eastern Time)

Base: Extremely competitive

Bonus: A generous year-end bonus, based on performance

Benefits: Full benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance

Location: Remote in the USA

Position: Full-Time, Permanent

Time Zone: Must be in a US city with the Eastern (EST) or Central (CST) Standard Time zone.

About The Role

As part of the AI and data engineering department, you will work side to side with a team of AI engineers, architects and data scientists located in multiple countries (the US, France, and Kazakhstan) to perform research and development on AI-based technologies applied to Healthcare Analytics.

The Senior NLP Engineer plays a crucial role within the research and development team focused on linguistic technologies. The primary responsibility of this role is to design, develop, and enhance advanced NLP solutions to meet the company’s needs across various domains, working with structured, semi-structured, and non-structured data coming from a wide variety of public and private data sources.

The role will be expected to contribute to the design, conception, creation, development, implementation, and testing of different NLP AI algorithms to help measure, map, correlate, disambiguate, and track the quality of RYTE’s rich databases.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be able to take on a role that is “20% Research / 70% ML development and experimentation / 10% MLOps”.

The position requires in-depth expertise in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, programming, and a strong understanding of fundamental NLP concepts. They are NOT looking for a research scientist, but someone more interested in applying the “state of the art” approach to long-term projects. You will be processing new data to solve a problem, evaluating the results, selecting an approach within 1-2 weeks, and then shipping your project. Your MLOps skills will be useful to understand the MLOps team’s expectations and to help hand things over.

What You’ll Be Doing – Day-to-Day

As part of the AI and data engineering department, you will work side to side with a team of AI engineers, architects, and data scientists located in multiple countries to perform research and development on AI-based technologies applied to Healthcare Analytics.

1. Research and Development:

• Design and develop advanced NLP models, such as entity disambiguation, text generation, machine translation, sentiment analysis that will form the core of our solutions.
• Define appropriate datasets for language learning.
• Experiment with the latest advancements in NLP research and incorporate them into development projects.
• Manage project timelines, milestones, and deliverables autonomously, ensuring timely and successful completion of projects.
• Identify risks and potential roadblocks, and proactively develop strategies to mitigate them.

2. Optimization and Enhancement:

• Analyze and improve the performance of existing NLP models in terms of accuracy, speed and efficiency.
• Optimize text processing pipelines to handle large volumes of data.

3. Collaboration:

• Work closely with other engineers, data scientists and researchers to solve complex natural language processing challenges.
• Participate in meetings and discussions to share ideas, findings, and recommendations with internal stakeholders.

4. Validation and Testing:

• Design testing protocols to evaluate the quality and performance of NLP models.
• Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments.
• Stay updated on the latest trends and advancements in NLP by reading research papers, and tracking relevant open-source projects.

5. Team Mentorship:

• Provide mentorship and support to the NLP engineering team’s intermediate and junior members, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Offer constructive feedback, identify areas for improvement.
• Assist in designing and delivering training programs to enhance team member’s technical skills, soft skills and domain knowledge.

6. Tutoring Interns:

• Collaborate with HR and hiring managers to evaluate resumes, conduct interviews and assess candidates’ technical and cultural fit.
• Mentoring of interns, ensuring they receive guidance and support throughout their internship period.

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Why new role: RYTE is expanding its technical teams rapidly in various geographies. They have hired a couple of dozen AI engineers in France in the preceding months, going from a team of 6 to 26. Now, RYTE is building and ramping up its technical team in the US with the same level of conviction.

Opportunity:

• Join a well-funded AI health tech company at the forefront of using generative AI to help people and organizations to make well-informed healthcare decisions
• RYTE is at a pivotal moment in writing the history of the company – it is putting its applications live and getting its first users – you get to join a company and be there at the beginning of its rapid growth
• The global team and data model built over the last 3 years is very solid – they’ve set up a great program for helping to develop AI use cases, models, and services to assist in making healthcare decisions
• RYTE’s models are being developed for a variety of B2C, B2B, and B2D use cases that make the job very interesting, employing an extensive array of analytical capabilities, including name recognition and sentiment analysis
• Teams are in clusters of 10 allowing RYTE to scale effectively while focusing on a consistent set of tasks and priorities. You can focus on one thing, deliver, and feel the impact of the contributions you make.

Directly report to: VP of Artificial Intelligence, with Technical Lead

Company Size: 120+ team members across the globe, including Canada, France, Kazakhstan, and Philippines; and now growing its US presence

Process:

1. Recruiter Interview: High-level 30-min review of aspirations, work experience, past successes

2. Interview 1 with a Team Lead and Senior NLP Engineer: 60-90 minute video meeting

3. Interview 2 with VP of Artificial Intelligence: 30-45 minute video meeting

4. Offer