Medical Linguistic Specialist

Summary

Join Docplanner as a Medical Linguistic Specialist and contribute to the development of AI-driven healthcare products. You will prepare and curate linguistically and medically oriented datasets for machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) initiatives. Collaborate with annotators, NLP experts, and machine learning engineers to ensure data accuracy and relevance. This role requires a strong linguistic background, experience in data annotation and transcription, and familiarity with medical terminology. The ideal candidate possesses exceptional attention to detail and strong collaboration skills. Docplanner offers a competitive salary, private health plan, share options, free English classes, a hybrid working model, and more.

Requirements

• Be proficient in English and one or more of the following languages (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish)
• Have a degree or strong background in linguistics, computational linguistics, or a related field
• Have familiarity with medical terminology or prior experience in the healthcare domain
• Have hands-on experience with data annotation, transcription, and labeling tools
• Be proficient in creating and managing text patterns and dictionaries for NLP purposes
• Have exceptional ability to assess and improve data quality
• Have strong interpersonal skills to coordinate with annotators and technical teams

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain medically oriented datasets for machine learning purposes, ensuring high-quality data annotation and consistency
• Create and refine annotation and labeling conventions, as well as perform audio transcriptions (aligning audio with text and correcting text based on audio)
• Develop and implement text patterns to detect and extract named entities, such as names, addresses, organization names, ID numbers, and medical terms
• Prepare and maintain dictionaries and taxonomies for use in NLP systems
• Evaluate the correctness and accuracy of words, sentences, and text structures, ensuring linguistic quality and consistency
• Supervise the work of annotators and maintain close collaboration with NLP and machine learning engineers to address project needs and challenges

Preferred Qualifications

• Have previous experience in AI, machine learning, or data preparation projects
• Have knowledge of multiple languages or dialects beyond the primary working language
• Have exposure to medical coding systems (e.g., ICD, CPT) or electronic health records (EHR)
• Have experience leading linguistic teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary appropriate to your experience
• Private health plan
• Share options plan after 6 months working with us
• Free English classes
• Hybrid working model
• Unlimited access to the Ifeel emotional well-being tool
• Free birthday to spend the day with your loved ones!
• Participate in our successful referral programme and get rewarded for bringing in exceptional talent like yours
• An amazing team that will welcome you and support you along the way