Abridge is hiring a
Staff NLP Research Scientist, Remote - United States

Summary

Abridge is hiring a Research Scientist with experience in machine learning and natural language processing to advance the state of medical NLP. The role involves contributing to original research, defining problems, developing methods, and shipping them into production. Abridge offers unlimited PTO, comprehensive benefits, flexible working hours, remote work environment, equity for all new employees, and a generous equipment budget.

Requirements

• Strong research background, as demonstrated through papers and a graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
• High-impact publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. CL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
• Significant real-world impact, as demonstrated through open source contributions and deployed technology
• Strong programming skills with proven experience crafting, prototyping, and delivering machine learning solutions into production
• Experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. PyTorch, Jax, Tensorflow) and platforms, multi-GPU training, and statistical analyses of observational and experimental data
• Must be willing to travel up to 10%

Responsibilities

• Advance the state of the art in medical NLP, in areas including conversation summarization, evidence extraction, outcome prediction, evaluation techniques, and experimentation
• Actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing original research
• Help to define important problems, identify appropriate baselines, develop state-of-the-art methods, and ship them into production
• Dial deeply into real-time feedback from clinicians to guide further refinements and innovations
• Be results-oriented in the face of ambiguous problems and uncertain outcomes

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, plus 12 national holidays
• Comprehensive and generous benefits package: 16 weeks paid parental leave, flexible working hours, remote work environment, equity for all new employees, and a generous equipment budget for your home office setup ($1600)
• Opportunity to work and grow with talented individuals, and have ownership and impact at a high growth startup