AI / ML Engineer

 AI/ML Engineers

Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift, cloud-native development, cloud cost optimization, and migration services. As a consulting company, we often are faced with the challenge to create an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that, we have created a secondary support business that runs an engineering talent network and provides staffing services.

Our client combines the latest IoT tracking devices with cutting-edge software technologies to manage workflows and track equipment. They are creating an intuitive, cloud-based application to improve businesses' ability to schedule, maintain, and deploy complex equipment configurations. 

The position

This project focuses on developing AI-driven methods for a clinic to extract structured data from patient-clinician conversation transcripts. The aim is to identify and organize key information, such as side effects, medication plans, and codes, to improve data analysis and support medical decision-making.  We are seeking a skilled AI / ML engineer to join our client’s team, the project aims to transform unstructured dialogue from these consultations into a structured format that can be easily analyzed, stored, and used for further medical decision-making or research through AI.

• Side Effects: Information about any adverse effects or reactions the patient reports during the consultation.
• Medication Plan: Details about the prescribed treatment plan, including dosages, schedules, and any instructions given by the clinician.
• Medication Codes: Extraction of standardized codes (likely from medical coding systems like ICD or CPT) associated with the medications discussed during the consultation.

Responsibilities

• 3-4 years of production experience - putting ML systems in production
• Advanced knowledge of Python
• At least one NLP/LLM project project in production
• Hands-on experience with deep learning libraries and frameworks (PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow, fastai, YOLO, ...)
• Solid data engineering skills (SQL, data pipelines, pandas)

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with AWS ML services (Bedrock, and Sagemaker)
• Using LLMs and transformer models to extract information from raw text.
• A plus would be experience applying these techniques to medical data.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience working in a startup environment with high-velocity
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 

Our Recruitment Process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)
• Technical interview (30 min)
• Client interview I (Call with the Founders -  60 minutes)
• Take Home Assignment (3-4 hours).
• Client interview II (A meeting to go through the Take Home Assignment)

What We Offer

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)
• Monday to Friday, Between PST and BST (9am-6pm, from US Pacific Time to British Time)
• PTO for local holidays based on the country of residence plus two calendar weeks (10 workdays)
• Long-term, no end date independent contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice