Staff Data Scientist

As a Staff Data Scientist you will be responsible for advancing our Natural Language Processing research and development, bringing NLP features from product request to experiment to production code. You will design and execute experiments and build necessary tooling. You will keep abreast of the state of the art in LLMs while conducting research of novel techniques to solve issues unique to our application.

You will:

• Translate desired product functionality into machine learning tasks for data scientist and machine learning engineers to solve

• Follow and contribute to best practices for our research activities including data collection/annotation, literature research, experimentation, and evaluation

• Create and test novel LLM based systems

• Stay informed on new methodologies for evaluating generative models and other complex deep learning techniques

What We're Looking For:

• 6 years of experience in Data Science or Machine Learning Engineering

• Expert level Python: able to write reliable, extensible code

• Knowledge of deep learning fundamentals and experience finetuning various foundation/backbone models for new tasks

• Experience using pre-trained LLM's for zero or few-shot learning tasks

• Scientific mindset and ability to run experiments to guide model selection and hyperparameter search

• Good written communication skills

• Experience putting LLM based services into production

• Experience working with clinical data

Our Tech Stack:

• Primarily Python jobs and applications

• OpenAI and other Foundation model APIs

• Pytorch on AzureML for our own training

• Kubernetes via AKS or EKS for serving compute (with support from infra team)

• Databricks for data lake

• Flyte for orchestration

• Experience with cloud-based machine learning training providers (Sagemaker, AzureML or similar)

• Experience generating visualizations for evaluation of complex systems

Pay Range: $159,450 - $223,230

Other compensation: Bonus Eligible

Perks & Benefits:

Remote US work

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

401K retirement plan; flexible spending and health savings account

15 days of paid time off + additional front-loaded personal days

14 company-recognized holidays+ paid volunteer days

up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave + 10 weeks of paid bonding leave

LGBTQ+ Health Services

Pet insurance

Check out more of our benefits here: https://www.mcg.com/about/careers/benefits/

We embrace diversity and equal opportunity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Only with diverse thoughts and ideas will we be able to create the change we want in healthcare. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be for it.

MCG Health is a Seattle, Washington-based company. This position can be done from a remote location and will require some in-person travel.