Junior NLP Data Scientist - Healthcare AI

University of British Columbia; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 64,000 - 91,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of British Columbia is seeking a part-time Junior NLP Data Scientist to join its Psychiatry department's Chakrabarty Laboratory. You will work on NLP and ML methods to support psychosocial health and cancer care, in collaboration with BC Cancer. Under supervision by Dr.

John-Jose Nunez and Dr. Trisha Chakrabarty, you will design NLP pipelines, assist with cloud deployment, and contribute to manuscripts and ethics submissions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year of related experience in NLP or data science.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Experience with NLP libraries, cloud platforms, and healthcare data is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop predictive and generative NLP pipelines using clinical data.
• Assist with front-end and back-end engineering for digital health applications.
• Help build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for AI models (e.g., AWS).
• Collaborate with clinicians and researchers to co-design and evaluate tools.
• Support manuscript preparation, grant proposals, and ethics submissions.
• Assist with coordinating student developers and research assistants.

Skills

Python programming

ML basics

NLP concepts

Education

Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

Hugging Face

spaCy

NLTK

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Pandas

Docker

AWS

Job description

The University of British Columbia is seeking a part-time Junior NLP Data Scientist to join its Psychiatry department's Chakrabarty Laboratory. You will work on NLP and ML methods to support psychosocial health and cancer care, in collaboration with BC Cancer. Under supervision by Dr.

John-Jose Nunez and Dr. Trisha Chakrabarty, you will design NLP pipelines, assist with cloud deployment, and contribute to manuscripts and ethics submissions.