Research Associate in Natural Language Processing (INTERNAL ONLY)

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: Essential criteria 1. *PhD qualified in natural language processing of electronic health records
2. Experience of applying NLP to electronic health records
3. Knowledge of applying broad range of NLP tasks, including information extraction, relation extraction, clustering, classification, sentiment analysis, topic modelling using machine learning and NLP methods including rule-based, supervised and unsupervised learning, ANN and deep learning, large language models.
4. Ability to self-learn new and cutting edge research areas in NLP and machine learning.
5. Excellent knowledge of programming, software design patterns and developing applications in Python
6. Ability to independently develop project direction and to manage own day-to-day activities in order to meet project targets, pro-actively liaising with lead investigator and other project members where guidance is needed.
7. Able to engage with collaborators from own and other backgrounds, to discuss project requirements and outputs.
8. Track record of leading preparation, submission and presentation of results in leading health NLP publications and venues Desirable criteria 1. Health data and health informatics related skills and knowledge, including EHR structure and standards, medical coding, knowledge and terminology representation, medical decision support.
2. Knowledge of data management, SQL, relational databases, UNIX, scripting languages, common text formats such as JSON, full text indexing and search
3. Experience of NLP and ML at scale e.g. via deployment on cloud platforms, and technologies such as Azure, Docker
4. Knowledge of software development best practices, such as agile methods, use of version control, maintainable code, good documentation, etc.
5. Experience of developing new research directions and developing these into funding proposals alongside senior investigators and collaborators. *Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6. Downloading a copy of our Job Description Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process. ## Further information: We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible. We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application. To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our [‘How we Recruit’]( pages.