Senior Systems Engineer

Job Summary

Supporting a Department of Veterans Affairs research study, the part-time Senior Systems Engineer will develop methods for natural language processing and manage text-processing pipelines to prepare analysis-ready datasets focused on suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Veterans, all in a remote capacity.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and refine NLP and LLM approaches to identify predictor variables in VA EHR clinical notes
• Build and maintain custom tokenization and text-processing pipelines for the Million Veteran Program cohort
• Extract and validate phenotypes for gene-by-environment analyses and prepare datasets for the statistical genetics team

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, informatics, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in computer systems engineering, software development, or data engineering
• Experience with AI/SI methods development for EHR text evaluation in a federal research environment
• Experience with programming and data pipeline development, including custom tokenization
• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance and work independently in a remote role