Clinical NLP Research Engineer – AI for Healthcare

AIToolboard; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University is seeking a Research Software Engineer – Clinical NLP to design, implement, evaluate, and deploy advanced NLP pipelines for clinical text. The role involves working with clinicians, data scientists, and engineers to translate research into scalable software systems in secure environments.

Strong academic background and industry experience in NLP/LLMs, with a focus on privacy, robustness, and interpretability, are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Strong NLP, LLM, ML and DL skills.
• Experience building NLP models and pipelines in secure healthcare environments.
• Expertise in evaluating and benchmarking large language models.
• Ability to translate research into robust software systems.

Responsibilities

• Participate in ground-breaking research projects requiring advanced software solutions.
• Develop NLP pipelines for clinical text using modern DL libraries.
• Collaborate with clinicians and data scientists to meet project goals.
• Contribute to reproducible scientific workflows and documentation.

Skills

NLP

LLMs & Fine-Tuning

Prompt engineering

Software engineering

Healthcare NLP & HIPAA

Education

PhD/MS in CS/ML/Clinical NLP

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Johns Hopkins University is seeking a Research Software Engineer – Clinical NLP to design, implement, evaluate, and deploy advanced NLP pipelines for clinical text. The role involves working with clinicians, data scientists, and engineers to translate research into scalable software systems in secure environments.

Strong academic background and industry experience in NLP/LLMs, with a focus on privacy, robustness, and interpretability, are highly valued.