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Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Research Data Scientist to join our team on a two-year, fixed-term basis, with a possible extension depending on performance and grant funding. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing a novel, open-source large language model for extracting and contextualizing clinical information from electronic medical records (EMR) using natural language queries.

Our research project seeks to decrease the resource intensity of obtaining data from electronic medical records (EMR) by developing an open-source large language model (LLM) for natural language querying. This role is essential for the project's success, as it requires a data science professional with specialized expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). The data scientist will be responsible for critical tasks including data acquisition from unstructured clinical documentation, designing and training the generative LLM, and evaluating model performance. Given the project's grant-based, two-year timeline, a fixed-term position is required to support the specific aims outlined in the research plan.

Job Summary

Summary
Responsible for analyzing data, uncovering the underlying data patterns and logic, and developing data-driven applications. They will work towards developing solutions for the entire problem-solving cycle: find/prioritize the problems, research the best algorithms to solve the problems, design robust, practical solvers, and implement them.

Does this position require Patient Care?
No

Essential Functions
-Analyze complex and high-dimensional clinical and operational data for dependencies, patterns, outliers, inaccuracies, and validity.
-Apply knowledge of statistics, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation, and/or advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose business questions, and make valuable discoveries.
-Contribute to the design and evaluation of optimal data-driven metrics (such as physician/facility performance criteria, bottleneck metrics, productivity limits, processing delay/error reports, etc.).
-Use a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive models and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data.
-Generate and test hypotheses and analyze and interpret the results.

Education
Bachelor's Degree Related Field of Study required or Master's Degree Related Field of Study preferred

Can this role accept experience in lieu of a degree?
Yes

Licenses and Credentials

Experience
Experience working in data science-type positions and with large data sets 2-3 years preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Extensive knowledge of natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs).

- Proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Ability to create reports and dashboards with Tableau.
- Skilled in data analysis with Python and SQL.
- Knowledge of statistics.
- Knowledge of machine learning.
- Preferred SQL database management and administrative knowledge.
- Practiced knowledge of numerical optimization algorithms.

Hybrid

55 Fruit Street

40

Regular

Day (United States of America)

Pay Range

$73,798.40 - $107,400.80/Annual

Grade

6

At Mass General Brigham, we believe in recognizing and rewarding the unique value each team member brings to our organization. Our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive, and any offer extended will take into account your skills, relevant experience if applicable, education, certifications and other essential factors. The base pay information provided offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications; however, it does not encompass all elements contributing to your total compensation package. In addition to competitive base pay, we offer comprehensive benefits, career advancement opportunities, differentials, premiums and bonuses as applicable and recognition programs designed to celebrate your contributions and support your professional growth. We invite you to apply, and our Talent Acquisition team will provide an overview of your potential compensation and benefits package.

The General Hospital Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact Human Resources at (857)-282-7642.

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