Position Description
There's no better time to bring your software engineering career to the health care industry.
You take pride in designing and developing solutions. And not just any solutions - solutions that are scalable and can be used in the marketplace to make an impact on the lives of millions. At Optum, you can bring your passion for innovation to an Agile environment where some of the smartest people you'll ever work with are working together to help make the health care system work better for everyone. When you join us as a Senior Software Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to showcase your technical expertise, making historic transformation in health care and changing the way our businesses and consumers engage with technology. You will be challenged with delivering high quality software products to impact the health care industry for the better. Here, you'll work at a pace you didn't know you had in you, your performance will be rewarded and, at the end of the day, you'll know you're doing your life's best work.(sm)
The NLP Research Engineer is a key technical contributor in the design and development of state-of-the-art NLP for medical applications. The NLP Research Engineer works closely with other NLP engineers, NLP linguists, software engineers and subject matter experts on current company technologies, and serves in a technical lead capacity on forward looking projects.
The successful candidate will have a strong background in Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence with an emphasis on text, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, and/or associated principles of knowledge representation and ontological design. The successful candidate will be a forward-thinker comfortable with research and design, but also demonstrate a willingness to support team members in the ongoing maintenance of existing systems. Strong technical skills are required, as the successful candidate must be able to take an idea fully from vision through design to implementation.
The NLP Research Engineer reports to the Director of NLP Innovation. Relocation assistance is available for a strong candidate.