Remote Part-Time Biomedical NLP Engineer

The Pennsylvania State University; State College (Centre County); Remote; USD 78,523; Part time

Job summary

A prestigious university is seeking a part-time programmer to work on an innovative project converting peer-reviewed nutrition literature into actionable recommendations. Responsibilities include managing an ETL pipeline, fine-tuning transformer models for data extraction, and building a service that balances various constraints. The role requires strong experience in Python and NLP/ML engineering. It offers a competitive pay rate of $57/hour for 20 hours a week, fully remote but with office space available if preferred.

Qualifications

• 3+ years professional experience in Python and ML/NLP engineering.
• Strong understanding of development practices including tests and code review.
• Ability to communicate clearly in a remote team setting.

Responsibilities

• Own a PubMed or OpenAlex ETL that normalizes and ingests articles.
• Fine-tune transformer models to extract semantic information.
• Implement and maintain a knowledge graph linked to recommendations.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning (ML)

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Data Engineering

Transformer Models

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Postgres

spaCy

Airflow

Job description

A prestigious university is seeking a part-time programmer to work on an innovative project converting peer-reviewed nutrition literature into actionable recommendations. Responsibilities include managing an ETL pipeline, fine-tuning transformer models for data extraction, and building a service that balances various constraints. The role requires strong experience in Python and NLP/ML engineering. It offers a competitive pay rate of $57/hour for 20 hours a week, fully remote but with office space available if preferred.