Machine Learning Engineer, Healthcare NLP New Jersey or Remote

Neurex AI Inc.; New Jersey; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Direct collaboration with founders

Impact on healthcare

Autonomy in projects

Job summary

Neurex AI is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Healthcare NLP to design and implement NLP pipelines for clinical text, extract meaningful clinical concepts, and build robust classification and information extraction systems. You will work with real healthcare data, validating outputs with clinical experts and deploying LLM-powered solutions.

The role offers remote or New Jersey-based work, with strong ownership and opportunities to shape products and healthcare workflows within

Qualifications

• Design and implement NLP pipelines for clinical text understanding
• Build named entity recognition systems for medical concepts
• Develop text classification models for healthcare documents
• Create information extraction systems for structured data from unstructured notes
• Fine-tune and deploy large language models for healthcare applications
• Work with clinical experts to validate model outputs and improve accuracy

Responsibilities

• Design and implement NLP pipelines for clinical text understanding
• Build named entity recognition systems for medical concepts
• Develop text classification models for healthcare documents
• Create information extraction systems for structured data from unstructured notes
• Fine-tune and deploy large language models for healthcare applications
• Work with clinical experts to validate model outputs and improve accuracy

Skills

NLP

Transformer models

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Clinical NLP

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

NLP libraries

Python tooling

Job description

Machine Learning Engineer, Healthcare NLP

Build NLP systems that understand and extract insights from clinical text.

New Jersey or Remote Research & Development Full-Time

The Opportunity

Neurex AI is building applied AI systems that operate inside real healthcare workflows. This role is for NLP specialists who want to tackle the unique challenges of clinical language understanding.

You will build systems that extract meaning from clinical notes, medical records, and healthcare documentation at scale.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement NLP pipelines for clinical text understanding
• Build named entity recognition systems for medical concepts
• Develop text classification models for healthcare documents
• Create information extraction systems for structured data from unstructured notes
• Fine-tune and deploy large language models for healthcare applications
• Work with clinical experts to validate model outputs and improve accuracy

What You Will Build

• Clinical NLP pipelines for entity extraction and relation mapping
• Document classification systems for medical records
• Semantic search engines for healthcare knowledge bases
• LLM-powered summarization and generation systems
• Quality assurance tools for clinical documentation

Who You Are

• Strong foundation in NLP and machine learning
• Experience with transformer models and modern NLP architectures
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, real-world environments
• Familiarity with clinical terminologies (ICD, CPT, SNOMED) is a plus
• Experience with Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, and NLP libraries
• Clear communicator with high standards

Why Neurex AI

• AI that is deployed, not demoed
• High ownership and autonomy
• Real impact in healthcare
• Opportunity to shape products, systems, and culture
• Direct collaboration with founders and senior leadership