It’s Time For A Change… Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent Health has a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Our pursuit of this mission is the driving force that brings us to work each day. We believe in embracing new ideas, challenging ourselves and failing forward. We respect and celebrate individual talents and team wins. We have fun while working hard and Evolenteers often make a difference in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Are we growing? Absolutely—about 50% growth from 2015 through late 2019. Are we recognized? Definitely. Evolent was the first organization ever to receive NCQA’s Population Health Program Accreditation, and is consistently recognized as one of the Becker’s Healthcare 150 Top Places to Work. We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.

This position would be based out of Chicago, however, highly qualified individuals with Healthcare experience are still encouraged to apply.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The Associate Director Data Scientist will support building of AI products in Agile fashion that empower healthcare payers, providers and members to quickly process medical data to making informed decisions and overall reduce health care costs. As a research scientist/engineer part of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence team you will be working primarily on unstructured text data to build machine learning models for information retrieval applications.  These applications include but are not limited to optical character recognition, understanding the contents of the medical documents using natural language processing, and integrating processes into the overall AI pipeline to mine healthcare and medical information with high recall and other relevant metrics. We ingest claims, medical charts, etc. from providers containing unstructured data which will be transformed into structured data to support automated entry into our storage layers for downstream applications. The results will be used dually for real-time operational processes with both automated and human-based decision making as well as contribute to reducing healthcare administrative costs. We work with all major cloud and big data vendors offerings including but not limited to (Azure, AWS, Google, IBM, etc.) to achieve AI goals in healthcare and support Evolent business.

The Sr. Scientist will have the opportunity to build a team, shape team culture and operating norms as a result of the fast-paced nature of a new, high-growth organization.

• Develop Natural Language Medical/Healthcare documents comprehension related products to support Evolent Health business objectives, products and improve processing efficiency, reducing overall healthcare costs
• Gather external data sets; build synthetic data and label data sets as per the needs for NLP/NLR/NLU  
• Apply expert software engineering skills to build Natural Language products to improve automation and improve user experiences leveraging unstructured data storage, Entity Recognition, POS Tagging, ontologies, taxonomies, data mining, information retrieval techniques, machine learning approach, distributed and cloud computing platforms
• Own the Natural Language and Text Mining products — from platforms to systems for model training, versioning, deploying, storage and testing models with creating real time feedback loops to fully automated services
• Work closely and collaborate with Data Scientists, Machine Learning engineers, IT teams and Business stakeholders spread out across various locations in US and India to achieve business goals
• Provide mentoring to other Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineers 

The Experience You’ll Need (Required):

• MS degree or above in Computer Science, Computational linguistics, Mathematics, Physics or related STEM fields
• 5+ years of Industry experience related to Unstructured Text Data and NLP (PhD work and internships will be considered if they are related to unstructured text in lieu of industry experience)
• Strong understanding of mathematical concepts including but not limited to linear algebra, Advanced calculus, partial differential equations and statistics including Bayesian approaches
• Strong programming experience including understanding of concepts in data structures, algorithms, compression techniques, high performance computing, distributed computing, and various computer architecture
• Good understanding and experience with traditional data science approaches like sampling techniques, feature engineering, classification and regressions, SVM, trees, model evaluations
• Additional course work, projects, research participation and/or publications in Natural Language processing, reasoning and understanding, information retrieval, text mining, search, computational linguistics, ontologies, semantics    
• Experience with developing and deploying products in production with experience in two or more of the following languages (Python, C++, Java, Scala)
• Strong Unix/Linux background and experience with at least one of the following cloud vendors like AWS, Azure, and Google
• Hands on experience with one or more of high-performance computing and distributed computing like Spark, Dask, Hadoop, CUDA distributed GPU
• Thorough understanding of deep learning architectures and hands on experience with one or more frameworks like tensorflow, pytorch, keras
• Hands on experience with libraries and tools like Spacy, NLTK, Stanford core NLP Genism, johnsnowlabs

Finishing Touches (Preferred):

• A PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, or related technical field
• Exposure to linguistic background especially language models
• Medical concepts with codes from standard ontologies (SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD, etc.)
• Lucene, Solr, Elastic Search experience
• Experience with Kubernetes and dockers  
• Experience building REST API’s for AI work and knowledge of microservices architecture  
• Experience managing a team of offshore developers

Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.