Are you an experienced NLP Engineer with in-depth expertise in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, programming, and a strong understanding of fundamental NLP concepts? RYTE, a breakthrough Artificial Intelligence health tech company is looking for a Senior NLP Engineer who will contribute to pushing the boundaries of RYTE’s natural language processing capabilities and driving innovation within the company’s linguistic technology initiatives.

Finding the right physician, selecting the organization providing the most suitable service, and obtaining the most relevant health information, whether in the US or globally, can be complex and filled with uncertainty. Enter RYTE: an AI-driven platform designed to simplify this process. By analyzing data from millions of healthcare providers, experts, medical procedures, clinical outcomes, and a variety of other data points, RYTE offers users a comprehensive view of their options, uniquely tailored to their needs. It offers:

Personalized Recommendations: Based on your specific situation, RYTE's platform presents the best healthcare options for you, no matter where you are in the world.
Unprecedented Insights: With billions of data points on countless medical professionals and facilities, its AI-driven software gives rankings and insights with metrics previously unavailable for decision-making.
Versatile Applications: Launching for individuals seeking specialized care (B2C), with plans for the Pharmaceutical, Medtech, Health Insurance (B2B), and Doctor (B2D) markets, the RYTE platform caters to diverse needs.

Behind RYTE is a dedicated team of top physicians, healthcare executives, data scientists, and AI specialists who have been hard at work since 2019. Their mission? To empower everyone, everywhere, with the data-driven insights required to make well-informed healthcare decisions.

Senior NLP Engineer – Remote to Miami FL (Relocation Assistance Provided)

Base: Extremely competitive

Bonus: A generous year-end bonus, based on performance

Benefits:Top-level medical, vision, and dental plans with 100% coverage

Location: Remote in the USA to start; then relocate to Miami FL in a reasonable time frame

Relocation assistance: Expenses related to relocation will be provided as part of an offer

Position: Full-Time, Permanent

About The Role

As part of the AI and data engineering department, you will work side by side with a team of AI engineers, architects, and data scientists located in multiple countries (the US, France, and Kazakhstan) to perform research and development on AI-based technologies applied to Healthcare Analytics.

The Senior NLP Engineer plays a crucial role within the research and development team focused on linguistic technologies. The primary responsibility of this role is to design, develop, and enhance advanced NLP solutions to meet the company’s needs across various domains, working with structured, semi-structured, and non-structured data coming from a wide variety of public and private data sources.

The role will be expected to contribute to the design, conception, creation, development, implementation, and testing of different NLP AI algorithms to help measure, map, correlate, disambiguate, and track the quality of RYTE’s rich databases.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be able to take on a role that is “20% Research / 70% Data Science / 10% MLOps”.

What You’ll Be Doing – Day-to-Day

As part of the AI and data engineering department, you will work side by side with a team of AI engineers, architects, and data scientists located in multiple countries to perform research and development on AI-based technologies applied to Healthcare Analytics.

1. Research and Development:

Design and develop advanced NLP models, such as entity disambiguation, text generation, machine translation, and sentiment analysis that will form the core of our solutions.
Define appropriate datasets for language learning.
Experiment with the latest advancements in NLP research and incorporate them into development projects.
Manage project timelines, milestones, and deliverables autonomously, ensuring timely and successful completion of projects.
Identify risks and potential roadblocks, and proactively develop strategies to mitigate them.

2. Optimization and Enhancement:

Analyze and improve the performance of existing NLP models in terms of accuracy, speed, and efficiency.
Optimize text processing pipelines to handle large volumes of data.

3. Collaboration:

Work closely with other engineers, data scientists, and researchers to solve complex natural language processing challenges.
Participate in meetings and discussions to share ideas, findings, and recommendations with internal stakeholders.

4. Validation and Testing:

Design testing protocols to evaluate the quality and performance of NLP models.
Train the developed model and run evaluation experiments.
Stay updated on the latest trends and advancements in NLP by reading research papers, and tracking relevant open-source projects.

5. Team Mentorship:

Provide guidance, mentorship, and support to the engineering team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.
Offer constructive feedback, identify areas for improvement, and create personalized development plans.
Design and deliver training programs to enhance team members’ technical skills, soft skills, and domain knowledge.

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Why new role: RYTE is expanding its technical teams rapidly in various geographies. They have hired a couple of dozen AI engineers in France in the preceding months, going from a team of 6 to 26. Now, RYTE is building and ramping up its technical team in the US with the same level of conviction.

Opportunity:

Join a well-funded AI health tech company at the forefront of using generative AI to help people and organizations make well-informed healthcare decisions
RYTE is at a pivotal moment in writing the history of the company – it is putting its applications live and getting its first users – you get to join a company and be there at the beginning of its rapid growth
The global team and data model built over the last 3 years are very solid – they’ve set up a great program for helping to develop AI use cases, models, and services to assist in making healthcare decisions
RYTE’s models are being developed for a variety of B2C, B2B, and B2D use cases that make the job very interesting, employing an extensive array of analytical capabilities, including name recognition and sentiment analysis
Teams are in clusters of 10 allowing RYTE to scale effectively while focusing on a consistent set of tasks and priorities. You can focus on one thing, deliver, and feel the impact of the contributions you make.

Directly report to VP of Artificial Intelligence, with Technical Lead

Company Size: 120+ team members across the globe, including Canada, France, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines; and now growing its US presence

Location: USA Remote to start; with relocation to Miami FL once offices are set up

Travel:Possible travel in the US, to Kazakhstan (Nur-Sultan), Philippines (Manilla), Canada (Toronto), and France (Paris).

Useful Links:

RYTE Website:https://ryte.ai/

B2C Apps: Soon to be released in the US app stores.

B2B/B2D Apps:In active development.

Process:

Recruiter Interview: High-level 30-min review of aspirations, work experience, past successes

Interview 1 with an AI Team Lead and Senior NLP Engineer: 60-90 minute video meeting

Interview 2 with VP of Artificial Intelligence: 30-45 minute video meeting

Offer

Experience/Skills:

Advanced expertise in Natural Language Processing, with a deep understanding of language models / LLMs, syntax, semantics, etc.
Proficiency in machine learning techniques, including deep learning frameworks and algorithms (Pytorch, TensorFlow)
Strong programming skills, preferably in languages such as Python, SQL
Experience with NLP libraries and tools, like Transformers and Huggingface
Experience in fine-tuning pre-trained large language models for specific tasks

Character:

Strong communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams
This is a low-ego, collaborative environment – you will learn new things!
Must be generous, willing to share what you know
Must be highly motivated to work in a team environment where you both coach and learn from those around you
Openness to a multicultural work environment
Humility, knowing that the field is moving every day and there is always something to learn from others

Education/Intelligence:

Master’s degree (or PhD) in Engineering, Data Science, or Computer Science
Solid knowledge of data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation techniques
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to address complex NLP challenges effectively

Coachability:

Must have a love of learning and an openness to being challenged
Expect to learn much from your peers & company stakeholders who are experts in their disciplines
Must be willing to share your knowledge with the team and coach junior team members in the USA/France/Kazakhstan
The ideal candidate has a passion for AI, Healthcare, and building something that matters

Bonus: A generous year-end bonus, based on performance

Benefits:Top-level medical, vision, and dental plans with 100% coverage

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