Senior Data Scientist ML/NLP - Data Science Group

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Senior Data Scientist ML/NLP.

Département DINF - Dpt infrastructures Code emploi Chef-fe de projet maîtrise d'oeuvree SI - 188012Niveau Selon profilDate d'entrée souhaitée 01-06-2021Type de contrat CDICatégorie professionnelle AdministrationLieu LausanneTaux d'activité 80% - 100% Date de début de publication 04-03-2021 Date de fin de postulation 15-04-2021 Référence 06795-AD-106-2021 Documents

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Contexte

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of five Swiss university hospitals. Through its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and the EPFL, CHUV plays a leading role in the areas of medical care, medical research and training. The mission of the Data Science Lab, part of the Data Science Group at the CHUV Division of Information Systems, is to design, develop and promote the adoption and application of innovative IT-based and data-driven solutions for better healthcare delivery, management and planning.

Our current and future challenges lie at the intersection of solutions for big health data storage and retrieval, multimodal data interoperability, data sharing, data privacy, artificial intelligence and clinical research. In our daily work, we constantly collaborate with clinical researchers, physicians, IT experts, and external academic or industrial partners.

Mission

• Development and integration of data pipelines to semantically represent data from different sources and of various formats in a knowledge graph


• Development and integration of algorithmic and ML/NLP/Image recognition solutions for feature extraction from both unstructured and structured data


• Formalizing user specifications and writing technical reports


• Contributing to the writing of scientific papers and grant proposals


• Providing expert advice and guidance for the integration of novel ML-based solutions into production environment in the hospital information system


• Coordinating external Data scientist consultants to enable the team to run multiple projects in parallel.

Profil

Your profile

• You are passionate about applying data science techniques to the medical field to enable data-driven decision-making, finding patterns and understanding trends in electronic health records (EHR)


• You enjoy working with highly motivated people in a highly agile and collaborative environment


• You are totally comfortable with developing and managing interdisciplinary collaborations with physicians, clinical researchers and external stakeholders


• You enjoy coaching junior data scientists and interns, leading new data science projects, providing support to existing ones and sharing your expertise within the group


• You are able to “think outside the box”, take on new ideas.

Requirements

• Master degree in Computer Science, Medical Informatics, Mathematics, or similar field (PhD is a plus)


• Minimum of 5 years of experience after Master degree in applied data science projects (experience in the medical data is a plus)


• Very strong and broad ML background, with profound knowledge of different ML methods


• Significant and demonstrable NLP experience, including end-to-end implementation of NLP solutions (experience on NLP on French text is a plus);


• Fully familiar with Python NLP libraries (spacy or similar) and latest NLP solutions;


• Fully familiar with at least one DL framework (Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras) and RNNs/CNNs architectures and their application to different data types


• Familiar with GNU/Linux and shell scripting


• Ability to work with and maintain a professional code base under version control (Git)


• Some familiarity with Semantic web technologies and formats (at least: RDF, OWL, SPARQL)


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills (both in English and French), ability to work autonomously


• Experience in any of the following areas would be a plus :




• Container orchestration technologies (kubernetes)


• Scalable data analytics technologies (Spark, Hadoop)


• Distributed systems and Federated Learning


• RESTful APIs


• Agile software development as a team


• Seach engines such as the Elastic stack or Solr


• NoSQL databases


• Lower level language (C/C++, Java, etc)


• Supervising junior scientists.

Nous offrons

If you become an employee at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, we will offer you the following :

• High social benefits


• Three days of training per year


• 25 working days of vacation per year


• Very good restaurants with preferential rates.

Contact et envoi de candidature

Contact for information on the function : Dr. Jean-Louis Raisaro, Data Science and Research Lead au 021 314 52 25

As our applications are processed electronically, would you please apply exclusively by internet, with the « POSTULER » button, at the bottom of the ad. If for any technical reason, you are not able to do it, we invite you to contact our recruitment team, which will assist you (contact : 021.314.85.70).

The CHUV applies the highest quality requirements as part of its recruitment process. In addition, mindful to promote the diversity of our employees we are attentive to the different life courses and strive to ensure equal treatment and avoid any discrimination. We are looking forward to receiving your application.

We thank in advance the employment agencies to take note that applications inserted by them directly on our recruitment platform are not accepted and cannot be billed. Thank you for your understanding.