Senior LLM / Machine Learning Engineer – Clinical Platforms - Boston Children's Hospital - Boston, MA
Boston Children's Hospital
The Computational Health Informatics Program (www.chip.org) at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join the SMART Health IT team (http://smarthealthit.org). In this role, you will design, build, and deploy LLM pipelines that operate on real-world clinical data and support model validation and care delivery at scale. You will join the team that helped define national standards for healthcare data APIs and population-scale clinical data exchange, and that maintains widely adopted open-source platforms used by hospitals, researchers, and technology partners worldwide. Your work will sit at the center of healthcare data innovation, translating modern AI methods into durable, production-grade tools used in clinical environments.
Key Responsibilities
Develop repeatable pipelines in Python using pandas, scikit-learn, and other statistical tools for data structuring, extraction and validation.
Develop, analyze, and interpret large clinical text datasets using the latest natural language processing (NLP/LLM) methods to extract and validate insights to support clinical research and predictive modeling.
Query and manage health datasets using SQL on AWS cloud
Produce innovative solutions driven by exploratory data analysis from complex and high-dimensional datasets. Applies knowledge of statistics, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation, and advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose questions, and make discoveries. Using a flexible, analytical approach to design, develop, and evaluate predictive models and advanced algorithms that lead to optimal value extraction from the data. Generates and tests hypotheses and analyzing and interpreting the results of experiments
With minimal supervision and direction, completes assignments in the required timeframe; consistently adhering to and promoting standard operating proced