Lexical Intelligence provides software and services related to processing large-scale biomedical information sources. Our NLP and analytics software is used by policy and decision makers to evaluate and prioritize current and emerging areas of research.

We are looking for a data scientist to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. The data scientist will have experience in NLP and applying statistical methods and techniques, including statistical significance and hypothesis testing, analysis of patents, and publications utilizing advanced statistical modeling techniques including machine learning, standard linear models, or random forests. The data scientist will have a firm understanding of the nuances involved in unbalanced training sets, test/train/validation splits, gold standards, significance testing, and hyperparameter optimization. The data scientist shall be able to work well within a team of analysts, data scientists, and software developers. Applicants selected will be subject to a pre-employment background and reference check.

Full COVID-19 vaccination is required for this position. Accommodations will be considered when reasonable.

Location: Preference will be given to candidates within reasonable commuting distance of Bethesda, MD. If not in the greater Washington D.C. / Maryland / Virginia area, the candidate may be responsible for their own transportation costs for badging, equipment retrieval and in-person attendance when required.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• 3 years of experience
• MS or other degree(s) in data science, biotechnology, computer science or related fields

Preferred qualifications:

• Highly proficient in Python
• Experience utilizing computational language processing including rule based models (context-free grammars), embedding models (word2vec), and document level summarization
• Experience in network and graph theory expertise including spectral clustering and node2vec
• Knowledge of deep learning models using machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• Experience using neural network architectures such as convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and generative adversarial models among other techniques and approaches
• Experience with data extraction from unstructured sources, integrating data from multiple databases, cleaning, and normalizing for downstream data analysis.
• Independent worker with strong analytical skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills

All candidates will be required to undergo a background check and must be authorized to work in the United States.

Salary and benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including at no cost: full health and dental for you and your dependents, HSA account, 401k, short- and long-term disability insurance, life and accident insurance, paid time off, and 11 federal holidays.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Lexical Intelligence, LLC, provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.